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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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3. The soul that rightly entertains Christ, and studies wholly to give him contentment, he is marvellous wary and watchful, that he may not sad that good Spirit of God to grieve him, and cause him to go away as displeased: See this Cant. 3. 4, 5. the Spouse sought long for her beloved, and at last brought him 1home, and when she had welcomed him, she gives a charge to all the house, not to stir nor awaken her love, till he please. When a Prince comes unto the house of a great man, what charge is there given to make no noise in the night, lest such and such a man be awakened before his time? the soul when it hath received the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, doth thus; he gives a peremptory charge to keep watch and ward, and gives a charge to hope, and desire, and love, and joy, and the mind, and all, not to grieve and molest the good Spirit of God, Let there be no motion but to entertain it, no advise but to receive it, and do nothing that may work the least kind of dislike unto it.
3. The soul that rightly entertains Christ, and studies wholly to give him contentment, he is marvellous wary and watchful, that he may not sad that good Spirit of God to grieve him, and cause him to go away as displeased: See this Cant. 3. 4, 5. the Spouse sought long for her beloved, and at last brought him 1home, and when she had welcomed him, she gives a charge to all the house, not to stir nor awaken her love, till he please. When a Prince comes unto the house of a great man, what charge is there given to make no noise in the night, lest such and such a man be awakened before his time? the soul when it hath received the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, doth thus; he gives a peremptory charge to keep watch and ward, and gives a charge to hope, and desire, and love, and joy, and the minde, and all, not to grieve and molest the good Spirit of God, Let there be no motion but to entertain it, no advise but to receive it, and do nothing that may work the least kinde of dislike unto it.
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