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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 8: Of Calling on Jesus in that Respect.
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SECT. VIII. Of Calling on Jesus in that Respect.
8. Let us call on Jesus, or on God the Father in and through Jesus. Now this calling on Jesus contains Prayer and Praise. 1. We must pray that all these transactions of Jesus at his first coming or incarnation may be ours; and is not here encouragement for our Prayers? If we observe it, this very point of Christs Incarnation opens a door of rich entrance into the presence of God; we may call it a blessed Portal into Heaven,1 not of Iron, or Brass, but of our own flesh; this is that new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the Veil, that is to say, his flesh; with what boldness and freeness may we now enter into the Holiest, and draw near unto the Throne of Grace? why, Christ is incarnate, God is come down in the flesh; though his Deity may confound us (if we should immediately and solely apply our selves unto it) yet his humanity comforts our faint and feeble souls, God in his humility animates our souls to come unto him, and to seek of him whatsoever is needful for us. Go then to Christ; away, away O my soul, to Jesus, or to God the Father, in and through Jesus; and O desire that the effect, the fruit, the benefit of his Conception, Birth, and of the wonderful union of the two natures of Christ may be all thine. What? dost thou hope in Jesus, and believe thy part in this Incarnation of Christ? why then pray in hope, and pray in Faith; what is prayer, but the stream and river of Faith, an issue of the desire of that which I joyfully believe?2 Thou, O Lord God of Hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy Servant, saying, I will build thee an house, therefore hath thy servant found in his heart, to pray this Prayer unto thee.
8. LEt us call on Jesus, or on God the Father in and through Jesus. Now this calling on Jesus contains Prayer and Praise. 1. We must pray that all these transactions of Jesus at his first coming or incarnation may be ours; and is not here encouragement for our Prayers? If we observe it, this very point of Christs Incarnation opens a door of rich entrance into the presence of God; we may call it a blessed Portal into Heaven,