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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.
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6. As Faith waits for an Answer, so accordingly it demeans it self.
1. Sometimes God answers not, and Faith takes on, and follows God still, and cries after Him with more Strength; as resolving never to give over, till the Lord either save or destroy: Nay, if the Lord will destroy, Faith chooseth to die at God's Feet; as when Joab was bidden to come forth from the Horns of the Altar, and to take his Death in another Place; Nay, (saith Joab) but I will dye here: Or, as when Christ saw no Deliverance come in His Agony, He Prayed more earnestly: So a poor Soul,1 in the Time of its Agony, when it is striving as for Life and Death, if Help come not at first Call, it prays again, and that more earnestly. Faith is very urgent with God; and the more slack the Lord seems in answering, the more earnest is Faith in plying God with its Prayers: It will wrestle with God, as Jacob with the Angel; it will take no Denial, but will crave still: Bless me, even me also; O send me not away without a Blessing!
1. Sometimes God answers not, and Faith takes on, and follows God still, and cryes after Him with more Strength; as resolving never to give over, till the Lord either save or destroy: Nay, if the Lord will destroy, Faith chuseth to die at God's Feet; as when Joab was bidden to come forth from the Horns of the Altar, and to take his Death in another Place; Nay, (saith Joab) but I will dye here: Or, as when Christ saw no Deliverance come in His Agony, He Prayed more earnestly: So a poor Soul,1 in the Time of its Agony, when it is striving as for Life and Death, if Help come not at first Call, it prayes again, and that more earnestly. Faith is very urgent with God; and the more slack the Lord seems in answering, the more earnest is Faith in plying God with its Prayers: It will wrestle with God, as Jacob with the Angel; it will take no Denyal, but will crave still: Bless me, even me also; O send me not away without a Blessing!