A69449:182
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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Some may say, this is all the difficult, How may I know whether 1my love be a true love, or a false love? How may I know, that my love is of the right stamp.
- 1Object.
Let every man put his love upon the trial, and examine thus, 1Whether doest thou welcome Christ and grace, according to the worth of them? if thou doest, it will appear in these particulars: 1. Observe the root and rise from whence thy love came, canst thou say, I love the Lord, because he hath loved me? then thy love is of the right mettle, and know it for ever, that that God which cannot but love himself, he cannot but like that love which came from himself: is thy soul affected and enlarged in love to the Lord, because thou hast felt and retained the relish and sweetness of his grace? canst thou say, The Lord hath let in a glimpse of his favour? and the Lord hath said in his truth, he looks to him that trembles at his word, the Minister said it, and the Spirit saith it, that my mercy is registered in heaven: Oh how should I love the Lord! my sins are many, which I have bewailed, my sighs and sobs I have put up to heaven, and at the last the Lord hath given me a gracious answer: Oh how should I love the Lord my strength dearly? If it be thus with thee, thy love is sound, and will never fail.
Let every man put his love upon the trial, and examine thus, 1Whether doest thou welcome Christ and grace, according to the worth of them? if thou doest, it will appear in these particulars: 1. Observe the root and rise from whence thy love came, canst thou say, I love the Lord, because he hath loved me? then thy love is of the right mettle, and know it for ever, that that God which cannot but love himself, he cannot but like that love which came from himself: is thy soul affected and enlarged in love to the Lord, because thou hast felt and retained the relish and sweetness of his grace? canst thou say, The Lord hath let in a glimpse of his favor? and the Lord hath said in his truth, he looks to him that trembles at his word, the Minister said it, and the Spirit saith it, that my mercy is registred in heaven: Oh how should I love the Lord! my sins are many, which I have bewailed, my sighs and sobs I have put up to heaven, and at the last the Lord hath given me a gracious answer: Oh how should I love the Lord my strength dearly? If it be thus with thee, thy love is sound, and will never fail.