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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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The next step is Sorrow for Sin; concerning which, are two questions: 1. Whether it be a work of saving grace? 2. Whether God work it in all alike?
THe next step is Sorrow for Sin; concerning which, are two questions: 1. Whether it be a work of saving grace? 2. Whether God work it in all alike?
To the first, I answer, There is a double Sorrow, one in Preparation, the other in Sanctification: They differ thus; Sorrow in Preparation, is when the word of God leaves an impression upon the heart of a man, so that the heart of it self is as it were a Patient, and only bears the blow of the Spirit; and hence come all those phrases of Scripture, as wounded, pierced, pricked, in the passive voice: So that this Sorrow is rather a Sorrow wrought on me, then any work coming from any Spiritual ability in me: But Sorrow in Sanctification flows from a Spiritual principle of Grace, and from that power which the heart hath formerly received from Gods Spirit; so that in this a man is a free worker: Now both these are saving Sorrows, but they differ marvellously; many think, that every saving work, is a sanctifying work, which is false, Those whom he calleth (saith the 1Apostle) them he also justifies, and whom he justifies, he glorifies: You may observe, That Glorification in this place implies Sanctification here, and glory hereafter; now before Glorification, you see there is Justification and Vocation, and both these are saving.
To the first, I answer, There is a double Sorrow, one in Preparation, the other in Sanctification: They differ thus; Sorrow in Preparation, is when the word of God leaves an impression upon the heart of a man, so that the heart of it self is as it were a Patient, and onely bears the blow of the Spirit; and hence come all those phrases of Scripture, as wounded, pierced, pricked, in the passive voyce: So that this Sorrow is rather a Sorrow wrought on me, then any work coming from any Spiritual ability in me: But Sorrow in Sanctification flows from a Spiritual principle of Grace, and from that power which the heart hath formerly received from Gods Spirit; so that in this a man is a free worker: Now both these are saving Sorrows, but they differ marvellously; many think, that every saving work, is a sanctifying work, which is false, Those whom he calleth (saith the