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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hitherto of our first general, to wit, The Preparation of the Soul for Christ: The next is, The Implantation of the Soul into Christ; and that hath two parts:
HItherto of our first general, to wit, The Preparation of the Soul for Christ: The next is, The Implantation of the Soul into Christ; and that hath two parts:
1. The putting of the Soul into Christ. 2. The growing of the Soul with Christ.
As a graft is first put into the stock, and then it grows together ⟨p. 38⟩with the stock: These two things are answerable in the Soul, and when it is brought into this, then a sinner comes to be partaker of all spiritual benefits.
The first part is, The putting in of the Soul: when the Soul is brought out of the world of sin, to lie upon, and to close with the Lord Jesus Christ; and this hath two particular passages: The Call on Gods part. The Answer on mans part.