A69449:172
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. 5. A Love of Christ.
WE have run through two affections, Hope & Desire, and the next is Love: A possible good stirs up Hope, a necessary excellency in that good, settleth Desire, and a relish in that good settled, kindles Love. Thus is the order of Gods work: If the good be absent, the understanding saith, It is to be desired, O that I had it! then it sends out Hope, and that waits for that good, and stays till it can see it; and yet if that good cannot come, then Desire hath another proper work, and it goes up and down wandering, and seeketh and sueth for Christ Jesus. After this, if the Lord Jesus be pleased to come himself into the view of the heart, which longeth thus after him, then Love leads him into the soul, and tells the Will of him, saying, Lo here is Jesus Christ the Messiah, that hath ordered these great things for his Saints and people.
VVE have run through two affections, Hope & Desire, and the next is Love: A possible good stirs up Hope, a necessary excellency in that good, setleth Desire, and a rellish in that good setled, kindles Love. Thus is the order of Gods work: If the good be absent, the understanding saith, It is to be desired, O that I had it! then it sends out Hope, and that waits for that good, and stays till it can see it; and yet if that good cannot come, then Desire hath another proper work, and it goes up and down wandring, and seeketh and sueth for Christ Jesus. After this, if the Lord Jesus be pleased to come himself into the view of the heart, which longeth thus after him, then Love leads him into the soul, and tells the Will of him, saying, Lo here is Jesus Christ the Messiah, that hath ordered these great things for his Saints and people.