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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.
3. God in the Covenant pardons thy sins; this is another fruit of Gods love: Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins by his own blood; 1it cost him dear to pardon our sins; even the heart-blood of Christ: such were the transactions betwixt God and Christ: if thou wilt take upon thee to deliver souls from sin (saith God to his Son) thou must come thy self, and be made a Curse for their Sin: Well (saith Christ) thy will be done in it; though I lose my Life, though it cost me the best blood in my heart, yet let me deliver them from sin: This exceedingly heightens Christs Love, that he should foresee thy sin, and that yet he should Love. Many times we set our Love on some outward unthankful Creatures, and we say, could I but have foreseen this untowardness, they should never have had my Love: but now the Lord did foresee all thy sins, and all thy ill requitals for love, and yet it did not once hinder his love towards thee, but he puts this in the Covenant, I will forgive their Iniquities, and remember their sins no more.2
3. God in the Covenant pardons thy sins; this is another fruit of Gods love: Ʋnto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins by his own blood; 1it cost him dear to pardon our sins; even the heart-blood of Christ: such were the transactions betwixt God and Christ: if thou wilt take upon thee to deliver souls from sin (saith God to his Son) thou must come thy self, and be made a Curse for their Sin: Well (saith Christ) thy will be done in it; though I lose my Life, though it cost me the best blood in my heart, yet let me deliver them from sin: This exceedingly heightens Christs Love, that he should foresee thy sin, and that yet he should Love. Many times we set our Love on some outward unthankful Creatures, and we say, could I but have foreseen this untowardness, they should never have had my Love: but now the Lord did foresee all thy sins, and all thy ill requitals for love, and yet it did not once hinder his love towards thee, but he puts this in the Covenant, I will forgive their Iniquities, and remember their sins no more.2
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