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Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things
Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things: or, the doctrine of regeneration, the new birth, the very beginning of a godly life. Delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.
London: printed by J.F. for I.A., 1650
Appendix › Chapter 5 › Section 7: The means to apply the said promises.
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Sect. 7. The means to apply the said promises.
I Said before, it was enough for me to prepare the medicine, it is thou must apply it; yet if thou feelest a backwardness to perform thy part, I shall tell thee of some means to incite thee, and help thee onward to the performance of this duty.
Take then the promises, and carry them (as thou didst the Catalogue of thy sins) into the presence of the Lord; and, fallen down on thy knees, beseech God for thy Saviours sake to incline thine heart to believe those promises. If thou hast the repulse, pray again and again, yea resolve never to make prayer, but to use this petition, that the Lord would please to let thee have some feeling of the life of those promises; Some soul may object, I have no heart or spirit to pray, yet use thy endeavour, and in thy ⟨p. 71⟩endeavours God may come in; and whensoever thou feelest any of them to be spirit and life to thee, whensoever thou feelest (by a certain taste) the joys of the Holy Ghost to fall upon thee, O happy man that ever thou wast born! then art thou (to thy own knowledge) new born indeed: then hast thou (without doubt) done this most glorious exercise of passing through the new birth, and then hast thou cause (as thou canst not choose) to sing and praise God day and night, world without end: 1So true is that of Christ, Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Amen.