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An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applied by their uses for a further progress in holiness / by ... William Ames ...An analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applyed by their uses for a further progresse in holinesse / by ... William Ames ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
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Use 1. This may serve to admonish us, to acknowledge our spiritual blindness, and to labour to get out of it. For it is in every one of us either in whole or in part. We should therefore think with our selves how great a misery it is to continue in perpetual darkness and in a most thick mist. Christ wept over Jerusalem for this their blindness.
Vse 1. This may serve to admonish us, to acknowledge our spirituall blindnesse, and to labour to get out of it. For it is in every one of us either in whole or in part. We should therefore thinke with our selves how great a misery it is to continue in perpetuall darknesse and in a most thick myst. Christ wept over Jerusalem for this their blindnesse.
2. To exhort us earnestly to pray unto God, who can open the eyes of our mind. The blind man, Luke 18. 38. never ceased to cry out, saying, Jesus thou Son of David have mercy on me, and when Christ asked him, what he would that he should do unto him, he desired nothing else, but that he might receive his sight, verse 41. So also in spiritual blindness although a great part of it was cu•ed in David, yet we see that he constantly prays unto God, to open his eyes, Psal. 119. 18 So also the Apostle saith, that he ceased not to pray for the faithful, that the eyes of their understanding might be enlightened Ephes. •. 18 This is the counsel of the holy Ghost, and of Christ, […]. 3. 18.
2. To exhort us earnestly to pray unto God, who can open the eyes of our minde. The blinde man, Luke 18. 38. never ceased to cry out, saying, Iesus thou Sonne of David have mercy on me, and when Christ asked him, what he would that he should do unto him, he desired nothing else, but that he might receive his sight, verse 41. So also in spirituall blindnesse although a great part of it was cued in David, yet we see that he constantly prayes unto God, to open his eyes,