A69449:132
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.
In which observe the Means Cause whereby God doth Call.
1. The Means is only the Ministry of the Gospel; the sum whereof is this, That There is fullness of Mercy, and Grace, and Salvation brought unto us through the Lord Jesus Christ. Hence the phrase of Scripture calls this Gospel, or this mercy, A treasury; All the treasures of wisdom and holiness are in Christ: 1not One treasure, but All treasures; not Some treasures, but All treasures: where the Gospel comes, there is joy for the sorrowful, peace for the troubled, strength for the weak, relief seasonable 2and suitable to all wants, miseries and necessities, both present and future.
1. The Means is onely the Ministery of the Gospel; the sum whereof is this, That There is fulness of Mercy, and Grace, and Salvation brought unto us through the Lord Jesus Christ. Hence the phrase of Scripture calls this Gospel, or this mercy, A treasury; All the treasures of wisdom and holiness are in Christ: 1not One treasure, but All treasures; not Some treasures, but All treasures: where the Gospel comes, there is joy for the sorrowful, peace for the troubled, strength for the weak, relief seasonable 2and suitable to all wants, miseries and necessities, both present and future.