A69449:192
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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SECT. 6. A relying on Christ.
WE are now come to the work of the Will, which is the great wheel and Commander of the soul. The former affections were but as hand-maids to usher in Christ and the Promises; the mind saith, I have seen Christ: Hope saith, I have waited: Desire saith, I have longed: Love saith, I am kindled: then saith the Will, I will have Christ, it shall be so: and this makes up the match, the spawn and seeds of faith went before, now faith is come to some perfection, now the soul reposeth it self upon the Lord Jesus.
VVE are now come to the work of the Will, which is the great wheel and Commander of the soul. The former affections were but as hand-maids to usher in Christ and the Promises; the minde saith, I have seen Christ: Hope saith, I have waited: Desire saith, I have longed: Love saith, I am kindled: then saith the Will, I will have Christ, it shall be so: and this makes up the match, the spawn and seeds of faith went before, now faith is come to some perfection, now the soul reposeth it self upon the Lord Jesus.
And this reposing or resting it self, discovers a fivefold act:
First, it implies A going out of the soul to Christ: When the soul seeth this, that the Lord Jesus is his aid, and must ease him and pardon his sins, then let us go to that Christ, saith he, it is the Lords call, Come to me all ye that are weary: now this voice coming home to the heart, and the prevailing sweetness of the call over-powering the heart, the soul goes out, and falls, and flings it self upon the riches of Gods grace.