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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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Secondly, as that sweetness warms the heart, so the freeness of the love of God let in and intimated, begins even to kindle this love in the soul, that it sparkles again: God setteth out his love towards us, seeing that while we were yet sinners, Christ dyed for us. This commends the love of God, the Lord sends to 1poor and miserable, sinful broken-hearted sinners, and saith, Commend my mercy to such a one, and tell him, That though he hath been an enemy to me, yet I am a friend to him, and though he hath been rebellious against me, yet I am a God and Father to him: When the poor sinner considers this with himself, he saith, Is the Lord so merciful to me? I that loved my sins, and continued in them, had it not been just that I should have perished in them? but will the Lord not only spare his enemy, but give his Son for him? O let my soul for ever rejoice in this unconceivable goodness of God! Be thy heart never so hard, if it have but the sense of this, it cannot but stir thee to Humiliation.
Secondly, as that sweetness warms the heart, so the freeness of the love of God let in and intimated, begins even to kindle this love in the soul, that it sparkles again: God setteth out his love towards us, seeing that while we were yet sinners, Christ dyed for us. This commends the love of God, the Lord sends to 1poor and miserable, sinful broken-hearted sinners, and saith, Commend my mercy to such a one, and tell him, That though he hath been an enemy to me, yet I am a friend to him, and though he hath been rebellious against me, yet I am a God and Father to him: When the poor sinner considers this with himself, he saith, Is the Lord so merciful to me? I that loved my sins, and continued in them, had it not been just that I should have perished in them? but will the Lord not onely spare his enemy, but give his Son for him? O let my soul for ever rejoyce in this unconceiveable goodness of God! Be thy heart never so hard, if it have but the sense of this, it cannot but stir thee to Humiliation.