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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
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.
THE great Breaking-forth of this Gracious Covenant was to Israel about the Time of their Captivity. By reason of that Captivity of Babylon, Israel was almost clean destroyed; and therefore, then it was high time, that the Lord should appear like a Sun after a stormy Rain, and give them some clear Light of Christ, and of this Covenant of Grace than ever yet. He doth so, and it appears especially in these words; Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,1 that I will make a new Covenant with the house of ⟨p. 82⟩Israel,2 and with the House of Judah; not according to the Covenant which I made with their Fathers, in the day that I took them by the Hand, to bring them out of the Land of Egypt; which my Covenant they break, although I was an Husband unto them, saith the Lord; but this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my Law in their Inward Parts, and write it in their Hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My People; and they shall teach no more, every Man his Neighbour, and every Man his Brother, saying, Know the Lord; for they shall all know Me from the Least of them unto the Greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their Iniquity, and remember their Sin no more. In this Expressure of the Covenant, we shall examine these Particulars:— 1. Why it is called a New-Covenant? 2. Wherein the Expressure of this Covenant doth excel the former, which God made with their Fathers? 3. How doth God put the Law into our inward Parts? 4. What is it to have the Law written in our Hearts? 5. How are we taught of God, so as not to need any other kind of Teaching comparatively? 6. What is the Universality of this Knowledge, in that All shall know me, saith the Lord? 7. How is God said to forgive Iniquity, and never more to remember sin?
THE great Breaking-forth of this Gracious Covenant was to Israel about the Time of their Captivity. By reason of that Captivity of Babylon, Israel was almost clean destroyed; and therefore, then it was high time, that the Lord should appear like a Sun after a stormy Rain, and give them some clear Light of Christ, and of this Covenant of Grace than ever yet. He doth so, and it appears especially in these words; Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,