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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.
3. Sometimes God answers more fully and satisfactorily; He applies some Promise of Grace to the Conscience by His Spirit; He lets the Soul feel & taste the Comforts of himself, or of such and such a Promise, more effectually than ever before: Fear not, 1(saith God) for I am thy God. Here Faith waxeth bold, and with a glad Heart entertains the Promise brought Home unto it. The Apostle calls this the Embracing of the Promises: Now,2 Embracing implies an Affectionate Receiving with both Arms opened: So the Soul embraceth the Promise, and the Lord Jesus in the Promise; and having Him, like Simeon, in his Arms, it lays Him in the Bosom, it brings Him into the Chamber of the Heart, there to rest and abide for ever. And now is the Covenant struck betwixt God, and the Soul: Now the Soul possesseth God in Christ, as her own; it rests in Him, and is satisfied with Him, it praiseth God for his Mercy, as Simeon did, when he had Christ in his Arms; it commits it self wholly, and for ever to that Goodness and Mercy, which hath been revealed to it.
3. Sometimes God answers more fully and satisfactorily; He applyes some Promise of Grace to the Conscience by His Spirit; He lets the Soul feel & taste the Comforts of himself, or of such and such a Promise, more effectually than ever before: Fear not, 1(saith God) for I am thy God. Here Faith waxeth bold, and with a glad Heart entertains the Promise brought Home unto it. The Apostle calls this the Embracing of the Promises: Now,2 Embracing implies an Affectionate Receiving with both Arms opened: So the Soul embraceth the Promise, and the Lord Jesus in the Promise; and having Him, like Simeon, in his Arms, it layes Him in the Bosom, it brings Him into the Chamber of the Heart, there to rest and abide for ever. And now is the Covenant struck betwixt God, and the Soul: Now the Soul possesseth God in Christ, as her own; it rests in Him, and is satisfyed with Him, it praiseth God for his Mercy, as Simeon did, when he had Christ in his Arms; it commits it self wholly, and for ever to that Goodness and Mercy, which hath been revealed to it.