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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 5 › Chapter 1 › Section 6: Of Christ's Whipping the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple.
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3. If by Christ's presence we mean the presence, of his Spirit either in himself, or especially in his workings, stirrings, actings and movings in our Spirit, I should then subscribe; only I think this is not all that is included in his especial presence; true it is that when Christ was upon Earth, he told his Disciples that he must go away; for if he went not away, the Comforter would not come unto them;1 But if I depart (said he) I will send him unto you; and accordingly, when that Church-assembly was convened at Pentecost, God sent the Holy Ghost; much people being then gathered at Jerusalem, that it might be divulged to all the World. To all the Assemblies of the Saints, Christ promised his Spirit, though not always in a visible manner;2 Where two or three are gathered together in my name (saith Christ) there I am in the midst of them. Christ in his Spirit is in the midst of us, stirring and moving in our spirits: or the spirit of Unity is with united spirits. O he is a sweet Spirit, a Spirit of Love, and Concord, and Peace, and Glory; and therefore where should he be but with those that make harmony upon Earth? He is with them, and amongst them, and in them;3 Know ye not that ye are the Temple ⟨p. 184⟩of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you, and worketh in you?
3. If by Christ's presence we mean the presence, of his Spirit either in himself, or especially in his workings, stirrings, actings and movings in our Spirit, I should then subscribe; only I think this is not all that is included in his especial presence; true it is that when Christ was upon Earth, he told his Disciples that he must go away; for if he went not away, the Comforter would not come unto them;1 But if I depart (said he) I will send him unto you; and accordingly, when that Church-assembly was convened at Pentecost, God sent the Holy Ghost; much people being then gathered at Jerusalem, that it might be divulged to all the World. To all the Assemblies of the Saints, Christ promised his Spirit, though not alwayes in a visible manner;