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Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things

Name: Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things
Author: Isaac Ambrose

Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things: or, the doctrine of regeneration, the new birth, the very beginning of a godly life. Delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.

Isaac Ambrose 1604–1664London: printed by J.F. for I.A., 1650

[8], 72 p. · 31k words · Wing A2964 · ESTC R213988

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Dedication: To the Worshipful, The MAYOR, ALDERMEN, And other INHABITANTS IN The Town of Preston in…

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To the Worshipful, The MAYOR, ALDERMEN, And other INHABITANTS IN The Town of Preston in Amounderness.

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The Apostle Peter knowing (as he saith) that shortly he was to put off that his tabernacle of the flesh, ¹as our Lord Jesus Christ had showed him; he therefore endeavoured that Gods people, after his decease, might have those things he taught them always in remembrance: And thus it came to pass, that to this day we have that portion of holy Writ which he then left in writing. If Peters practice be imitable in this kind, I suppose the same duty lies on ^*me. Revelation I have none, but many stitches and infirmities, which I take to be fore-runners of my departure hence. Some things, and amongst the rest, these First Things, ⟨image 3⟩I have taught you; what remains now, but that after my decease you might have these things always in remembrance? To that purpose, the same I delivered once to your ears, I now present to your eyes; as you were then pleased to hear them, so I trust you will now peruse them: Only one thing you may please to observe through this Treatise, That whereas in the Name of Christ I often Beseech, Exhort, Command the unregenerate to believe, to be reconciled to God, to pray, to fall on this or that duty, it is not as if they could do any thing of their own strength or power; but because Jesus Christ, in Exhorting, Entreating, Commanding, puts forth his own power, and his own strength to enable them. While Paul exhorted the Goaler to believe in the Lord Jesus, that he might be saved, God enabled the Goalor to believe. Life and power is conveyed to the soul, in Gospel-Commands and Exhortations. While Ezekiel prophesied over dead bones, breath came into them, and they lived: so while the Prophets of the Lord do preach over sinful impenitent hearers, who are like to the Prophets dry bones, the breath of Heaven, the Spirit of the Most High in the Ministry of the Gospel, enters into them, and so they are made new creatures, and see the Kingdom of

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Isaac Ambrose 1604–1664

Place

London

Printer

J.F.

Bookseller

I.A.

Year

1650

Size

[8], 72 p.

Words

31,026

Catalogue

Wing A2964 · ESTC R213988

Text

EEBO-TCP A25247

Passages

289

Sections

Title page

Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things

To the Worshipful, The MAYOR, ALDERMEN, And other INHABITANTS IN The Town of Preston in Amounderness.

To his worthily much esteemed Friend, Mr. Isaac Ambrose.

THE CONTENTS of PRIMA, OR The First Things.

To the Reverend AUTHOR, on his learned TREATISES, Entitled, Prima, Media & Ultima, THE First, Middle and Last Things.

To the Reverend AUTHOR, on his learned TREATISES, Intituled, Prima, Media & Ʋltima, THE First, Middle and Last Things.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

To the Worshipful, The MAYOR, ALDERMEN, And other INHABITANTS IN The Town of Preston in Amounderness.

To his worthily much esteemed Friend, Mr. Isaac Ambrose.

THE CONTENTS of PRIMA, OR The First Things.

To the Reverend AUTHOR, on his learned TREATISES, Entitled, Prima, Media & Ultima, THE First, Middle and Last Things.

To the Reverend AUTHOR, on his learned TREATISES, Intituled, Prima, Media & Ʋltima, THE First, Middle and Last Things.