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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
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.
Now concerning this union, for our better understanding, observe these four things.
1. It is a most real union; it is not a mere notional and intellectual union, that consists only in the understanding and without the understanding is nothing; it is not an imaginary thing, that hath no other being but only in the Brain; no, no, it is a true, real, essential, substantial union; In natural unions, I confess, there may be more evidence, but there cannot be more truth; spiritual Agents neither have, nor put forth less virtue, because sense cannot discern their manner of Working; even the Load-stone, though an earthen substance, yet when it is out of sight, whether under the table, or behind a solid partition, it stirreth the needle as effectually as if it were within view. Shall not he contradict his senses, that will say, It cannot work, because I see it not? Oh my Saviour! thou art more mine, than my Body is mine: my sense feels that present, but so as that I must lose it: but my faith so feels, and sees thee present with me, as that I shall never be parted from thee.
1. It is a most real union; it is not a meer notional and intellectual union, that consists only in the understanding and without the understanding is nothing; it is not an imaginary thing, that hath no other being but only in the Brain; no, no, it is a true, real, essential, substantial union; In natural unions, I confess, there may be more evidence, but there cannot be more truth; spiritual Agents neither have, nor put forth less virtue, because sense cannot discern their manner of Working; even the Load-stone, though an earthen substance, yet when it is out of sight, whether under the table, or behind a solid partition, it stirreth the needle as effectually as if it were within view. Shall not he contradict his sences, that will say, It cannot work, because I see it not? Oh my Saviour! thou art more mine, than my Body is mine: my sense feels that present, but so as that I must lose it: but my faith so feels, and sees thee present with me, as that I shall never be parted from thee.