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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 9: Of conforming to Jesus in that respect.
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3. Christ the son of man is by nature the son of God; so we poor sons of men must by Grace become the sons of God; even of the same God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;1 for this very end God sent his own Son made of a woman, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons,—wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a Son, then an heir of God through Christ. This intimates that what relation Christ hath unto the Father by nature, we should have the same by Grace; by nature he is the only begotten Son of the Father, and as many as received him (saith John2) to them he gave power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe on his Name. It is true, Christ reserves to himself the preeminence;3 he is in a peculiar manner the first born among many Brethren; yet in him, and for him all the rest of the brethren are accounted as first borns:4 So God bids Moses say unto Pharaoh, Israel is my son, even my first born; And I say unto thee, let my Son go, that he may serve me; and if thou refuse to let him go, behold I will slay thy Son, even thy first-born, And the whole Church of God, consisting of Jew and Gentile, is in the same sort described by the Apostle to be the General Assembly and Church of the first-born enrolled in Heaven; 5by the same reason that we are sons, we are first-borns; if we are Children, then are we heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. O who would not endeavour after this privilege? who would not conform to Christ in this respect?
3. Christ the son of man is by nature the son of God; so we poor sons of men must by Grace become the sons of God; even of the same God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;1 for this very end God sent his own Son made of a woman, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons,—wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a Son, then an heir of God through Christ. This intimates that what relation Christ hath unto the Father by nature, we should have the same by Grace; by nature he is the only begotten Son of the Father, and as many as received him (saith John