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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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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.
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.
The Call on Gods part is this, When the Lord by the Call of his Gospel, and work of his Spirit, doth so clearly reveal the fullness of Mercy, that the Soul humbled returns Answer.
The Call on Gods part is this, When the Lord by the Call of his Gospel, and work of his Spirit, doth so clearly reveal the fulness of Mercy, that the Soul humbled returns Answer.
In which observe the Means Cause whereby God doth Call.