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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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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!
Is there any Soul here that hath been vexed with the Temptations of Satan, oppositions of men, or with his own distempers? and would he now arm and fence himself, that nothing should ⟨p. 36⟩disquiet him, or trouble him, but in all, to be above all, and to rejoice in all? O then be humbled, and then be above all the Devils in hell: Certainly they shall not so disquiet you, as to cause you to be misled, or uncomforted, if you would but be humbled.