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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.
3. God teacheth experimentally; the soul that is taught of God can speak experimentally of the Truths it knows. I know whom I have believed, saith Paul; 1I have experienced his faithfulness and all-sufficiency, I dare trust my all with him, I am sure he will keep it safe to that day. Common knowledge rests in generals, but they that are taught of God, can say, As we have heard, so we have seen; they can go along with every truth, and say, It is so indeed, I have experienced this and that Word upon my own Heart. In this case the Scripture is the Original, and their Heart is the Copy of it, as you have heard; they can read over the Promises and Threatenings, and say Probatum est. David in his Psalms, and Paul in his Epistles speaks their very Hearts, and feels their very temptations, and makes their very objections: they can set to their Seal, 2that God is true; they can solemnly declare by their lives and conversations that God is true and faithful in his word and promises.
3. God teacheth experimentally; the soul that is taught of God can speak experimentally of the Truths it knows. I know whom I have believed, saith Paul; 1I have experienced his faithfulness and all-sufficiency, I dare trust my all with him, I am sure he will keep it safe to that day. Common knowledge rests in generals, but they that are taught of God, can say, As we have heard, so we have seen; they can go along with every truth, and say, It is so indeed, I have experienced this and that Word upon my own Heart. In this case the Scripture is the Original, and their Heart is the Copy of it, as you have heard; they can read over the Promises and Threatnings, and say Probatum est. David in his Psalms, and Paul in his Epistles speaks their very Hearts, and feels their very temptations, and makes their very objections: they can set to their Seal, 2that God is true; they can solemnly declare by their lives and conversations that God is true and faithful in his word and promises.
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