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The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behaviour of a man…The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behavior of a man…
The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behaviour of a man in the act of the new birth A treatise by way of appendix to the former. By Isaac Ambrose, minister of Christ at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behavior of a man in the act of the nevv birth A treatise by way of appendix to the former. By Isaac Ambrose, minister of Christ at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.
London: printed by J.F. for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, 1650
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Secondly, he conceives, that what God will do, that he will do, and he cannot avoid it; if the Lord will come, and require the glory of his Justice against him, there is no way to avoid it, nor to bear it: and this crusheth the heart, and makes the soul to be beyond all shifts and evasions, whereby it may seem to avoid the dint of the Lords blow.
Thirdly, he casts away his weapons, and falls down before the Lord, and resigns himself into the sovereign power and command of God. Thus David, when the Lord cast him out of his Kingdom, he said to Zadock, Carry back the Ark of God into the City, if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he 1will bring me back again, and show me both it and his Habitation: But if he thus say to me, I have no delight in thee; behold, here I am, let him do with me as seemeth good in his eyes. This is the frame of a poor soul; when a poor sinner will stand upon his privileges, the Lord saith, Bear my Justice, and defend thy self by all thou hast or canst do: and the soul answereth, I am thy Servant, Lord, do what is good in thine eyes, I cannot succour my self.
Thirdly, he casts away his weapons, and falls down before the Lord, and resigns himself into the soveraign power and command of God. Thus David, when the Lord cast him out of his Kingdom, he said to Zadock, Carry back the Ark of God into the City, if I shall finde favor in the eyes of the Lord, he 1will bring me back again, and shew me both it and his Habitation: But if he thus say to me, I have no delight in thee; behold, here I am, let him do with me as seemeth good in his eyes. This is the frame of a poor soul; when a poor sinner will stand upon his priviledges, the Lord saith, Bear my Justice, and defend thy self by all thou hast or canst do: and the soul answereth, I am thy Servant, Lord, do what is good in thine eyes, I cannot succor my self.