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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 1 › Chapter 2 › Section 2: An Exhortation to look off all other things.
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One word of Exhortation. Christians! I beseech you look off all other things, especially all evil things. I know I am pleading with you for an hard thing; I had need of the Rhetoric of an Angel, to persuade you to turn your Eyes from off these things; nay, if I had, all were too little, it is God only must persuade Japheth to dwell in the tents of Shem; and yet let me offer a few considerations, venture at a persuading of you,1 and leave the issue with God.
ONe word of Exhortation. Christians! I beseech you look off all other things, especially all evil things. I know I am pleading with you for an hard thing; I had need of the Rhetorick of an Angel, to perswade you to turn your Eyes from off these things; nay, if I had, all were too little, it is God only must perswade Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shem; and yet let me offer a few considerations, venture at a perswading of you,1 and leave the issue with God.
1. Consider, that all other evil things are in Gods account as very nothing; verily, every man at his best estate is altogether vanity; not only man, but every man; 1nor every man in his worst condition, but every man at his best estate; nor every man: man at his best estate is little worth, but every man at his best estate is vanity, emptiness, nothing; it may be so in part, nay, but in every part, he is wholly, totally, altogether vanity; would any man think, that a great, rich, honourable Man, whom we look upon with such high admiring thoughts, should be laid thus low in Gods esteem? O wonder, wonder! and yet 'tis no such wonder, but one day you shall find the experience of this truth your selves. Rich men have slept their sleeps, and none of the men of might have found their hands.