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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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This should teach us how thankful we ought to be unto the 1Lord, that enjoy these liberties in the Land of the living; That a man was born in such a time, in the last Age of the World, in such a place, in this Kingdom, wherein the way of life and salvation is so fully, so plainly, and so powerfully made known, that the Sun of the Gospel shines full in his face, and is not yet set: O how thankful should he be!
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And for those that neglect the Means of their Salvation, 1how should we pity them? Me thinks I see a poor creature, that slighted mercy and Salvation when it was offered him; me thinks I see that soul lying upon his deaths-bed, light is departing from his eyes, and his soul is departing from his body; O the ⟨p. 8⟩name of a Minister, of a Church, they are as Bills of Indictments against coming the Soul of this man; me thinks I hear such a man say at his last gasp, The day is gone, the gate is shut, and now it is too late to enter: And thus the soul departs from his body, the body to the grave, and the soul to hell; O what bitter lamentations will that soul make in hell, O the golden time that I have seen, and not regarded! O the gracious opportunities of Salvation that my eyes have beheld, and yet I neglected! O the mercy, and grace, and goodness of God, that have been offered unto me! All these I have contemned, and trampled under my feet, and therefore now must I be tormented with the Devil and his Angels, from everlasting to everlasting. Now the Lord give us hearts to take notice of these things. If I were now breathing out my last breath, I would breathe out this Legacy to all surviving Christians, This is the accepted time, this is the day of Salvation. Do you hear? This day is Grace offered, and if any here would entertain it, O what comfort might he have: I was never humbled afore (might he say) but this day I was humbled; I could never before receive mercy, but this day have I received it; O this was a good day to me, now blessed am I for ever.