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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 4 › Chapter 2 › Section 4: Of Hoping in 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.
1. Where this new birth is, there is new desires, new comforts, new contentments. Sometimes with the prodigal thou wast content with husks, but now nothing will satisfy thee, but thy Fathers mansion, and thy Fathers feasts; sometimes thou mindest only earthly things, but now the favour of God, the light of his countenance, society with him, and enjoying of him, are thy chief desires; This is a good sign! David's heart and flesh,1 and all breathed after God; My soul longeth; yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord, my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Men truly regenerate, do not judge it so happy to be wealthy, great, and honoured in the world, as to have the light of Gods favour shine upon them; O my soul, dost thou see the glory of the world, and thou fallest down to worship it? dost thou say in the increase of worldly comfort, it is good to be here? Then fear thy self; but if these things compared with Christ, are vain, and light, and of poor and mean esteem, then hope well, and be assured that thou art born again, and that Christ is formed in thee.
1. Where this new birth is, there is new desires, new comforts, new contentments. Sometimes with the prodigal thou wast content with husks, but now nothing will satisfie thee, but thy Fathers mansion, and thy Fathers feasts; sometimes thou mindest only earthly things, but now the favour of God, the light of his countenance, society with him, and enjoying of him, are thy chief desires; This is a good sign! David's heart and flesh,1 and all breathed after God; My soul longeth; yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord, my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the living God. Men truly regenerate, do not judge it so happy to be wealthy, great, and honoured in the world, as to have the light of Gods favour shine upon them; O my soul, dost thou see the glory of the world, and thou fallest down to worship it? dost thou say in the increase of worldly comfort, it is good to be here? Then fear thy self; but if these things compared with Christ, are vain, and light, and of poor and mean esteem, then hope well, and be assured that thou art born again, and that Christ is formed in thee.