A69449:176
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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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.
Here is the ground of Love, Gods love affecting the heart and settled upon it, it breeds a love to God again; We love him, because 1he loved us first: The burning-glass must receive heat of the beams of the Sun, before it burn any thing; so there must be a beam of Gods love to fall upon the soul, before it can love God again: I drew them with the cords of a man, even with the bands of love; 2God lets in the cords of love into the soul, and that draws love again to God: He brought me into the banqueting-house, and his banner over me was love; stay me with flagons, comfort me 3with apples, for I am sick of love. When the banner of Christs love is spread over the soul, the soul comes to be sick in love with Christ.
Here is the ground of Love, Gods love affecting the heart and setled upon it, it breeds a love to God again; We love him, because 1he loved us first: The burning-glass must receive heat of the beams of the Sun, before it burn any thing; so there must be a beam of Gods love to fall upon the soul, before it can love God again: I drew them with the cords of a man, even with the bands of love; 2God lets in the cords of love into the soul, and that draws love again to God: He brought me into the banqueting-house, and his banner over me was love; stay me with flaggons, comfort me 3with apples, for I am sick of love. When the banner of Christs love is spread over the soul, the soul comes to be sick in love with Christ.