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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 7: Of joying in Jesus in that respect.
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4. God in our Nature hath laid out the Model and Draught of what he will do ⟨p. 159⟩unto all his Saints for ever; humane nature was never so advanced before; what? to be glorified above the Angels? to be united in a Personal union with the second person of the Godhead? surely hence may be expected great matters; here's a fair step for the bringing of our Persons up to the enjoyment of God; if God be come down in the likeness of man, why, then he will bring us up into the likeness of God; look what was done to our nature in Christ, the very same (as far as we are capable) shall be done to our persons in Heaven. Think of it, O my soul, why hath God made flesh so glorious, but to show that he will by that make thee glorious also? Christ is the great Epitome of all the designs of God, so that in him thou mayest see what thou art designed unto, and how high and rich thou shalt be in the other world. Beloved, now are we the Sons of God, 1and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know when he shall appear, we shall be like him; he is now like us, but then (saith the Apostle) we shall be like unto him;2 he will change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his Glorious body. Oh consider what a frame of eternal comfort may we raise up from this ground of Christ incarnate, God in the flesh?
4. God in our Nature hath laid out the Model and Draught of what he will do ⟨p. 159⟩unto all his Saints for ever; humane nature was never so advanced before; what? to be glorified above the Angels? to be united in a Personal union with the second person of the Godhead? surely hence may be expected great matters; here's a fair step for the bringing of our Persons up to the enjoyment of God; if God be come down in the likeness of man, why, then he will bring us up into the likeness of God; look what was done to our nature in Christ, the very same (as far as we are capable) shall be done to our persons in Heaven. Think of it, O my soul, why hath God made flesh so glorious, but to shew that he will by that make thee glorious also? Christ is the great Epitome of all the designs of God, so that in him thou mayest see what thou art designed unto, and how high and rich thou shalt be in the other world. Beloved, now are we the Sons of God,