Post-Reformation · 1658

Looking Unto Jesus

Isaac Ambrose (1604-1664)

A comprehensive meditation on Christ as the soul's supreme object, tracing his person and work from eternal generation through birth, ministry, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and final coming in judgment. Ambrose structures each phase as both a doctrinal exposition and a practical exercise in nine acts of looking to Jesus: knowing, considering, desiring, hoping, believing, loving, joying, calling upon, and conforming. Published in 1658 at the height of English Puritanism and drawn from Ambrose's ministry at Garstang, Lancashire, it became one of the most thorough Christological treatises written for the devotion of ordinary believers.

42.5 hrs total · 22 chapters