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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 9: Of Conforming to 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.
1. God in Christ offers his Covenant to us; so we through Christ should embrace his Offer.
2. God in Christ keeps Covenant with us; so we through Christ should be careful to keep Covenant with him.
3. God in Christ hath highly honoured us as we are his People: so we through Christ should highly honour him as he is our God.
1. God in Christ offers a Covenant of Grace to us; so we through Christ should embrace this gracious Offer. His Offers have appeared from first to last: as, 1. To Adam. 2. To Abraham. 3. To Moses. 4. To David. 5. To Israel, and to Judah. Take notice of it in that great promise of the Covenant, I will be thy God: q. d. Come Soul, if thou wilt but have me, I am thine, here I offer my self, my son, my spirit, Justification, Sanctification, Adoption, Salvation: whatsoever I am, or whatsoever I have, all is thine, if thou wilt but accept of me: Look over all this wide, wide world, and if there be any thing in it that can please thy soul; and when thou hast gone through all the world, then come and take a view of me, and see me in my glory, beauty and excellency; view me in my Attributes, and see if thou findest not enough in me worthy of thy acceptance: all this, and more than this, nay more than eye can see, or ear can hear, or heart can conceive I offer to thee, if thou wilt but have me; Lo, I will he thy God. So Christians! God is