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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 1 › Chapter 2 › Section 1: The Duty of looking off all other things, confirmed, and cleared.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But what things are they we must look off in this respect? I answer,—1. Good things. 2. Evil things. Question. 1
1. Good things. The Apostle tells us of a cloud of witnesses in the former verse, which no question in their season we are to Look unto. But when this second object comes in sight, he scatters the cloud quite, and sets up Jesus himself; now the Apostle willeth us [Greek or Hebrew], to turn our eyes from them, and to turn them hither to Jesus Christ q. d. If you will indeed see a sight once for all, look to him: the Saints, though they be guides to us, yet are they but followers to him; he is the arch guide, the leader of them, & of us all, look on him. There is a time when James may say,1 take my brethren the Prophets who have spoken in the Name of the Lord for an example; but when Jesus comes forth, that said, I have given you an example, an example above all examples, then be silent O all flesh before the Lord. Let all Saints and Seraphims then cover their faces with their wings, that we may look on Jesus, and let all other sights go.
1. Good things. The Apostle tells us of a cloud of witnesses in the former verse, which no question in their season we are to Look unto. But when this second object comes in sight, he scatters the cloud quite, and sets up Jesus himself; now the Apostle willeth us 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to turn our eyes from them, and to turn them hither to Jesus Christ q. d. If you will indeed see a sight once for all, look to him: the Saints, though they be guides to us, yet are they but followers to him; he is the arch guide, the leader of them, & of us all, look on him. There is a time when James may say,1 take my brethren the Prophets who have spoken in the Name of the Lord for an example; but when Jesus comes forth, that said, I have given you an example, an example above all examples, then be silent O all flesh before the Lord. Let all Saints and Seraphims then cover their faces with their wings, that we may look on Jesus, and let all other sights go.