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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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SECT. 4. A desire after Christ.
When the soul is humbled, and the eye opened, then he begins thus to reason, O happy I that see mercy, but miserable I, if I come to see this, and never have a share in it! O why not I (Lord?) why not my sins pardoned? and why not my eorruptions subdued? my soul now thirsteth after thee as a thirsty Land, my affections now hunger after righteousness both infused and imputed; Now this desire is begotten thus:
VVHen the soul is humbled, and the eye opened, then he begins thus to reason, O happy I that see mercy, but miserable I, if I come to see this, and never have a share in it! O why not I (Lord?) why not my sins pardoned? and why not my eorruptions subdued? my soul now thirsteth after thee as a thirsty Land, my affections now hunger after righteousness both infused and imputed; Now this desire is begotten thus:
When the soul is come so far, that after a through conviction of sin, and sound humiliation under Gods mighty hand, it hath a timely and seasonable revelation of the glorious mysteries of Christ, of his excellencies, invitations, truth, tenderheartedness, &c. of the heavenly splendour, and riches, of the pearl of great price; then doth the soul conceive by the help of the Holy Ghost, this desire and vehement longing: And (least any cozen themselves by any misconceits about it, as the notorious sinner, the mere civil man, and the formal Professor) it is then known to be saving:
When the soul is come so far, that after a through conviction of sin, and sound humiliation under Gods mighty hand, it hath a timely and seasonable revelation of the glorious mysteries of Christ, of his excellencies, invitations, truth, tenderheartedness, &c. of the heavenly splendor, and riches, of the pearl of great price; then doth the soul conceive by the help of the Holy Ghost, this desire and vehement longing: And (least any couzen themselves by any misconceits about it, as the notorious sinner, the meer civil man, and the formal Professor) it is then known to be saving: