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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

Name: Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Author: Isaac Ambrose

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 ...

Isaac Ambrose 1604–1664London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680

[12], 644 [i.e. 538] p. · 484k words · Wing A2957 · ESTC R33051

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Book 3 › Chapter 2 › Section 9: Of Conforming to Jesus in that respect.

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We are willing to be in Covenant with God, that we may set up our selves, that we may sit upon Thrones, and possess a Kingdom: But we must think especially of setting up the Lord upon his Throne: Ascribe Greatness to our God, saith Moses; ¹make it a Name, and a Praise unto Him, that he hath vouchsafed to make us his People, and to take us into Covenant with Himself: Honour Him as he is God; but honour Him more abundantly, as he is our God: Who should Honour Him, if his People will not? The World knows Him not; The Wicked will not seek after God, ²— God is not in all his Thoughts. And, Shall God have no Honour? Shall He that stretched out the Heavens, and laid the Foundations of the Earth, and formed Man upon it, have no Glory? O yes! The Lord Himself answers; This People have I formed for My Self, ³they shall show forth My Praise: Surely, God will have Praise from his own People, whom he hath taken unto Himself: He will be glorified in all those that come near Him.⁴

We are willing to be in Covenant with God, that we may set up our selves, that we may sit upon Thrones, and possess a Kingdom: But we must think especially of setting up the Lord upon his Throne: Ascribe Greatness to our God, saith Moses; ¹make it a Name, and a Praise unto Him, that he hath vouchsafed to make us his People, and to take us into Covenant with Himself: Honour Him as he is God; but honour Him more abundantly, as he is our God: Who should Honour Him, if his People will not? The World knows Him not; The Wicked will not seek after God, ²— God is not in all his Thoughts. And, Shall God have no Honour? Shall He that stretched out the Heavens, and laid the Foundations of the Earth, and formed Man upon it, have no Glory? O yes! The Lord Himself answers; This People have I formed for My Self, ³they shall shew forth My Praise: Surely, God will have Praise from his own People, whom he hath taken unto Himself: He will be glorifyed in all those that come near Him.

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The book

Title as printed

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 ...

Author

Isaac Ambrose 1604–1664

Place

London

Bookseller

Richard Chiswel

Year

1680

Size

[12], 644 [i.e. 538] p.

Words

484,105

Catalogue

Wing A2957 · ESTC R33051

Text

EEBO-TCP A25241

Passages

2,751

Sections

227

Title page

Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

LOOKING UNTO JESUS In His Birth. The Fourth Book.

CHAP. I.

SECT. I. Of the Tidings of Christ.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

LOOKING UNTO JESUS In His Birth. The Fourth Book.

CHAP. I.

SECT. I. Of the Tidings of Christ.