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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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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.
- 11 Use of Comfort.1 Ʋse of Comfort.
Be then Exhorted, you that have stony hearts, to have recourse 1unto this great God of heaven: Should a Physician set up a Bill, That he would cure all that were troubled with the Stone in the Reins, and that we should hear of many healed by him, this would stir up all to repair to him, that laboured of this Disease: Why, the Lord this day hath set up a Bill, That he will cure all stony hearts that will but come to him, and all the children of God have found to the proof hereof, to the comfort of their souls: You wives therefore, that have husbands with stony hearts, and you parents, that have children with stony hearts, tell them, You have heard this day of a Physician that will cure them, and exhort them to repair unto him.