A69449:91
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. 5. The extent of this Sorrow.
Hitherto of Contrition; the next work is Humiliation, which differs from the other, not in substance, but circumstance: ⟨p. 26⟩For Humiliation (as I take it) is only the extent of Sorrow for Sin, of which we have spoken; and it contains these two Duties: 1. Submission, 2. Contentedness, to be at the Lords disposal.
HItherto of Contrition; the next work is Humiliation, which differs from the other, not in substance, but circumstance: ⟨p. 26⟩For Humiliation (as I take it) is onely the extent of Sorrow for Sin, of which we have spoken; and it contains these two Duties: 1. Submission, 2. Contentedness, to be at the Lords disposal.
The first part of Humiliation, is Submission, which is wrought thus: The sinner having now had a Sight of his Sins, and a Sorrow in some measure for Sin, he seeks far and wide, improves all means, and takes up all Duties, that (if it were possible) he might heal his wounded soul: Thus seeking, and seeking, but finding no succour in what he hath or doth, he is forced at last (in his despairing condition) to make trial of the Lord: It is true, for the present he apprehends God to be just, and to be incensed against him, he hath no experience of Gods favour for the while no certainty how he shall speed, if he go to the Lord; yet because he sees he cannot be worse then he is, and that none can help him but God, if it would please him: therefore he falls at the footstool of Mercy, and he lies grovelling at the gate of Grace, and submits himself to the Lord, to do with him as pleaseth himself, or as it seemeth good in his eyes.