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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 3 › Chapter 2 › Section 6: Of loving Jesus in that respect.
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.
Gods love to thee is the Love of all relations: look what a friends Love is to a friend, or what a Fathers Love is towards a Child, or what an Husbands Love is towards a Wife; such is Gods Love to thee; thou art his Friend, his Son, his Daughter, his Spouse; and God is thy All in All.
3. For the Effects of his Love: 1. God so Loves thee, as that he hath entered into a Covenant with thee. O what a Love is this? tell me, O my soul, is there not an infinite disparity betwixt God and thee? He is God above, and thou art a Worm below: He is the High and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity, whose Name is Holy: and thou art less than the least of all the Mercies of God: O wonder at such a condescension! that such a Potter, and such a Former of things should come on terms of bargaining with such clay as is guilty before him! Had we the tongues of Men and Angels, we could never express it!
3. For the Effects of his Love: 1. God so Loves thee, as that he hath entered into a Covenant with thee. O what a Love is this? tell me, O my soul, is there not an infinite disparity betwixt God and thee? He is God above, and thou art a Worm below: He is the High and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity, whose Name is Holy: and thou art less than the least of all the Mercies of God: O wonder at such a condescention! that such a Potter, and such a Former of things should come on terms of bargaining with such clay as is guilty before him! Had we the tongues of Men and Angels, we could never express it!
God so loves thee, as that in the Covenant he gives thee all his Promises? Indeed what is the Covenant but an accumulation, or heap of Promises? As a cluster of stars makes a Constellation; so as a mass of promises concurreth in the Covenant of Grace; where-ever Christ is, clusters of divine promises grow out of him; as the motes, rays and beams are from the Sun. I shall instance in some few. As, —