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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 3: Directions how to look off all other things.
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4. Set before you the examples of such Saints, who accounted themselves pilgrims and strangers upon earth. The Apostle gives you a Catalogue of such, who confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth, and see how they are used,1 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented; who were these? they were they of whom the world was not worthy. Oh when you read, or hear how joyfully these servants of the most high went through their wilderness condition, methinks this should take off your hearts from earthly things.
4. Set before you the examples of such Saints, who accounted themselves pilgrims and strangers upon earth. The Apostle gives you a Catalogue of such, who confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth, and see how they are used,1 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandred about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented; who were these? they were they of whom the world was not worthy. Oh when you read, or hear how joyfully these servants of the most high went through their wilderness condition, methinks this should take off your hearts from earthly things.
5. Go in your meditations to heaven, and keep there a while; the mind that is in heaven cannot attend these earthly things; would a man leave his plough & harvest in the field to run with children a hunting after butter-flies? no more will a soul that is taking a survey of heaven and heavenly things, fix his eyes on such poor things below: non vacat exiguis, &c. is the character of a truly prudent man; the children of that Kingdom above have no while for trifles, and especially when they are employed in the affairs of the Kingdom. Oh when a Christian hath but a glimpse of eternity, and then looks down on the world again, how doth he contemn and vilipend these things?