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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 5: Of Believing in Jesus in that Respect.
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3. The want of a Mediator, or some suitable Person, which may stand between the Sinner and God. If on my part there be unworthiness, and on Gods part exact and strict, and severe Justice; and withal I see no Mediator, which I may go unto, and first close withal before I deal with the infinite glory of God himself, how should I but despair, and cry out? O wretched man that I am! O that I had never been! or if I must needs have a being; Oh that I had been a toad, or serpent, or any venomous creature rather than a man; for when they dye they perish, and there's an end of them; but the end of a reprobate sinner is torments without end: O woe and alas! I cannot believe, there's no room for faith in this case! these are the hinderances.
3. The want of a Mediator, or some suitable Person, which may stand between the Sinner and God. If on my part there be unworthiness, and on Gods part exact and strict, and severe Justice; and withall I see no Mediator, which I may go unto, and first close withall before I deal with the infinite glory of God himself, how should I but despair, and cry out? O wretched man that I am! O that I had never been! or if I must needs have a being; Oh that I had been a toad, or serpent, or any venomous creature rather than a man; for when they dye they perish, and there's an end of them; but the end of a reprobate sinner is torments without end: O wo and alas! I cannot believe, there's no room for faith in this case! these are the hinderances.
2. The helps of faith in this sad condition are these.
1. A consideration that God is pleased to pass by, and to overlook the unworthiness of his poor creatures; this we see plain in the very act of his incarnation; himself disdains not to be as his poor creatures, to wear their own flesh, to take upon him humane nature; and in all things to become like unto man, sin only excepted.