A69449:97
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 was the Ninevites case, when Jonah had denounced that heavy Judgement, and (as it were) thrown wild fire about the streets, saying, Within forty days Nineveh shall be destroyed: See what they resolved upon, They fasted, and prayed, and put on 1sackcloth and ashes; who can tell (said they) but God may turn, and repent him of his fierce wrath, that we perish not? as if they had said, We know not what God will do, but this we know, that we cannot oppose his Judgements, nor succour our selves: Thus it is with a sinner, when he seeth hell fire to flash in his face, and that he cannot succour himself, then he saith, This I know, that all the means in the world cannot save me, yet who can tell, but the Lord may have mercy on me, and cure his tdistressed Conscience, and heal all these wounds that sin hath made in my soul? This is the lively picture of the soul in this case.
This was the Ninevites case, when Jonah had denounced that heavy Judgement, and (as it were) thrown wilde fire about the streets, saying, Within forty days Niniveh shall be destroyed: See what they resolved upon, They fasted, and prayed, and put on 1sackcloth and ashes; who can tell (said they) but God may turn, and repent him of his fierce wrath, that we perish not? as if they had said, We know not what God will do, but this we know, that we cannot oppose his Judgements, nor succor our selves: Thus it is with a sinner, when he seeth hell fire to flash in his face, and that he cannot succor himself, then he saith, This I know, that all the means in the world cannot save me, yet who can tell, but the Lord may have mercy on me, and cure his tdistressed Conscience, and heal all these wounds that sin hath made in my soul? This is the lively picture of the soul in this case.