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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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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.
First, The Author is God: I will take away their stony hearts (saith God) and give them an heart of flesh; I will remove that 1sturdy heart which is in them, and will give them a frameable, teachable heart, which shall ply, and yield to whatsoever I shall teach them: The taking away of the indisposition of the soul to any duty, and the fitting, framing and disposing of a soul to perform any Spiritual service, is the alone work of God.
Quiet then thy soul, and content thy heart; thou mayst say, 1I have an hard heart within, and it will receive no good from without, the Word prevails not, the Sacraments have no power over me, all the means, and cost, and charges that God hath bestowed upon me is lost, and my heart is not yet humbled, my corruptions are not yet weakened: But in this be thou comforted, though means cannot do it, which God useth at his pleasure, yet the Lord can do it, there is nothing difficult to him that hath hardness it self at command.
Quiet then thy soul, and content thy heart; thou mayst say, 1I have an hard heart within, and it will receive no good from without, the Word prevails not, the Sacraments have no power over me, all the means, and cost, and charges that God hath bestowed upon me is lost, and my heart is not yet humbled, my corruptions are not yet weakned: But in this be thou comforted, though means cannot do it, which God useth at his pleasure, yet the Lord can do it, there is nothing difficult to him that hath hardness it self at command.
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