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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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The want of this Humiliation many times brings a man to desperate stands, and sometimes to untimely deaths: Alas, why will you not bear the wrath of the Lord? it is true indeed, your sins are great, and the wrath of God is heavy, yet God will do you good by it, and therefore be quiet. In time of war, when the great Canons fly off, the only way to avoid them, is to lie down in a furrow, and so the bullets fly over: So in all Temptations of Satan, lie low, and be contented to be at Gods disposing, and all these fiery Temptations shall not be able to hurt you.
The want of this Humiliation many times brings a man to desperate stands, and sometimes to untimely deaths: Alas, why will you not bear the wrath of the Lord? it is true indeed, your sins are great, and the wrath of God is heavy, yet God will do you good by it, and therefore be quiet. In time of war, when the great Canons fly off, the onely way to avoid them, is to lie down in a furrow, and so the bullets fly over: So in all Temptations of Satan, lie low, and be contented to be at Gods disposing, and all these fiery Temptations shall not be able to hurt you.
2. In heaviest oppositions: when Satan is gone, then come Troubles and Oppositions of the world, in all which Humiliation will quiet the Soul. A man is sometimes Sea-sick, not because of the Tempest, but because of his full stomach, and therefore when he hath emptied his stomach he is well again: So it is with his Humiliation of heart, if the heart were emptied truly, though a man were in a sea of oppositions, if he have no more trouble in his stomach, and in his proud heart, then in the oppositions of the world, he might be very well quieted. Cast disgrace upon the humble heart causelessly, and he cures it thus, He thinks worse of himself then any man else can do, and if they would make him vile and loathsome, he is more vile in his own eyes then they can make him: O that I could bring your hearts to be in love with this blessed grace of God!
2. In heaviest oppositions: when Satan is gone, then come Troubles and Oppositions of the world, in all which Humiliation will quiet the Soul. A man is sometimes Sea-sick, not because of the Tempest, but because of his full stomack, and therefore when he hath emptied his stomack he is well again: So it is with his Humiliation of heart, if the heart were emptied truly, though a man were in a sea of oppositions, if he have no more trouble in his stomack, and in his proud heart, then in the oppositions of the world, he might be very well quieted. Cast disgrace upon the humble heart causlesly, and he cures it thus, He thinks worse of himself then any man else can do, and if they would make him vile and loathsom, he is more vile in his own eyes then they can make him: O that I could bring your hearts to be in love with this blessed grace of God!