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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Now this love of God doth beget our love in three particulars:
First, there is a sweetness and a relish which Gods love lets into the soul, and warms the heart with; you shall see how the fire is kindled by and by: As when a man is fainting, we give him Aqua-vitae; so a fainting sinner is cold at the heart, and therefore the Lord lets in a drop of his loving kindness, and this warms the heart, and the soul is even filled with the happiness of the mercy of God; Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth (saith the Spouse in the Canticles) for his love is better then wine: 1The kisses of his mouth, are the comforts of his Word and Spirit; the soul saith, O let the Lord refresh me with the kisses of his mouth, let the Lord speak comfort to my heart, and this is better then wine.
First, there is a sweetness and a rellish which Gods love lets into the soul, and warms the heart with; you shall see how the fire is kindled by and by: As when a man is fainting, we give him Aqua-vitae; so a fainting sinner is cold at the heart, and therefore the Lord lets in a drop of his loving kindeness, and this warms the heart, and the soul is even filled with the happiness of the mercy of God; Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth (saith the Spouse in the Canticles) for his love is better then wine: 1The kisses of his mouth, are the comforts of his Word and Spirit; the soul saith, O let the Lord refresh me with the kisses of his mouth, let the Lord speak comfort to my heart, and this is better then wine.