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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 8: Of calling on 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.
SECT. VIII. Of calling on Jesus in that respect.
1. WE must call on Jesus, or on God the Father in and through Jesus in reference to this gracious Covenant: Now this calling on God contains Prayer and Praise.
1. WE must call on Jesus, or on God the Father in and through Jesus in reference to this gracious Covenant: Now this calling on God containes Prayer and Praise.
11. We must pray: we must use Arguments of Faith challenging God, Turn thou me, and I shall be turned: Why? for thou art the Lord my God. This Covenant is the ground on which all Prayers must be bottomed; the Covenant we know contains all the Promises, and what is Prayer but Promises turned into Petitions? Thus prayed the Prophet Jeremiah, 2Do not abhor us for thy Names sake, do not disgrace the Throne of thy Glory, remember, break not thy Covenant with us.—Why? Art not thou he the Lord our God? And thus prayed the Prophet Isaiah, 3Be not wroth very sore, neither remember iniquity for ever, behold we beseech thee; and why so? we ar• all thy People: q. d. Every one doth for its own: the Prince for his People, the Father for his Children, and the Shepherd for his Sheep: and will not God do for his own in covenant with him? Be thy soul in the saddest desertion, yet come and spread the Covenant before God: A Soul in the greatest depth, swimming on this Covenant of Grace, it keeps it from sinking; whence Christ in his blackest, saddest hour, prayed thus, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Be thy Soul in trouble for sin and prevailing corruption: yet go to God, and plead his Promise and Covenant: say as Jehoshaphat, Lord, I am so born down by the power of my sin, that I know not what to do, only mine eyes are unto thee; O do thou subdue mine iniquities. Be thy soul troubled for want of strength to do this or that duty; yet go to God and Christ in the Covenant of Grace, and say, Lord thou knowest I have no strength of my self, I am a barren Wilderness, but thou hast entered into a Covenant of Grace with me, that thou wilt put thy Law into my inward parts, thou wilt cause me to keep thy judgments, and do them.