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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.
1. The minding of this world; ye know there may be adultery in affection, when the body is not defiled; unclean glances are a degree of lust: so the children of God may have some worldly glances, straggling thoughts, when the temptation is strong, the world may be greatened in their esteem and imagination.
1. The minding of this world; ye know there may be adultery in affection, when the body is not defiled; unclean glances are a degree of lust: so the children of God may have some worldly glances, stragling thoughts, when the temptation is strong, the world may be greatned in their esteem and imagination.
2. The setting of the heart upon the world; this is an higher degree of this spiritual adultery: our hearts are due and proper to Christ: now to set them on the world, which should be chaste and loyal to Jesus Christ, what adultery is this? Ye cannot serve God and Mammon: 1that woman that is not contented with one husband, must needs be an harlot.
3. The preferring of the world before Christ himself. This is the height of covetousness, and the height of this adultery; what, to make the members of Christ the members of an harlot? Why worldlings! those admiring thoughts are Christs, those pains are Christs, that love is Christs, that time, that care, that earnestness is Christs, they are all Christs; and will you give that which is Christs unto the world? and prefer the world before Christ with his own? What, live as professed prostitutes, that prefer every one before their husbands? how will this expose you to the scorn of men and Angels? at the last day thy will come pointing, and say, This is the man that made not God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches;