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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. 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.
Now the word of the Gospel, and the work of the Spirit always go together, not that God is tied to any means, but that he tieth himself to the means: Hence the Gospel is called, The power of God to Salvation, because the power of God ordinarily, 1and in common course appears therein: The waters of life and salvation run only in the channel of the Gospel; there are golden mines of grace, but they are only to be found in the Climates of the Gospel: nay, observe this, when all arguments prevail not with corruption, to persuade the heart to go to God, one Text of Scripture will stand a man in stead above all humane learning and inventions, because the Spirit goes forth in this and none else.
Now the word of the Gospel, and the work of the Spirit always go together, not that God is tyed to any means, but that he tyeth himself to the means: Hence the Gospel is called, The power of God to Salvation, because the power of God ordinarily, 1