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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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If then sorrow assail thee (when thou art come thus far) look not on thy sins, to pore upon them; neither look into thy own 1sufficiency, to procure any good there. It is true, thou must see thy sins, and sorrow for them, but this is for the lower Form, and thou must get this lesson before-hand; and when thou hast gotten this lesson of Contrition and Humiliation, look then only to Gods Mercy, and the riches of his Grace in Christ.
If then sorrow assail thee (when thou art come thus far) look not on thy sins, to pore upon them; neither look into thy own 1sufficiency, to procure any good there. It is true, thou must see thy sins, and sorrow for them, but this is for the lower Form, and thou must get this lesson before-hand; and when thou hast gotten this lesson of Contrition and Humiliation, look then onely to Gods Mercy, and the riches of his Grace in Christ.
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2. For the Cause: The Lord doth not only appoint the Means, but by the work of the Spirit, he doth bring all the riches of his grace into the soul truly humbled: if you ask, How? First, with strength of evidence; the Spirit presents to the broken-hearted sinner, the right of the freeness of Gods grace to the soul: And secondly, the Spirit doth forcibly soak in the relish of that grace, and by an over-piercing work, doth leave some dint of supernatural and spiritual virtue on the heart.
2. For the Cause: The Lord doth not onely appoint the Means, but by the work of the Spirit, he doth bring all the riches of his grace into the soul truly humbled: if you ask, How? First, with strength of evidence; the Spirit presents to the broken-hearted sinner, the right of the freeness of Gods grace to the soul: And secondly, the Spirit doth forcibly soak in the rellish of that grace, and by an over-piercing work, doth leave some dint of supernatural and spiritual vertue on the heart.