A75287:1007
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The…
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and public, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.
London: printed by John Field for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, 1649London: printed by John Field for Nathanaell Webb and William Grantham, 1649
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Two cautions concerning promises, and the life of faith, are mainly to be observed in the general.
1. That not barely the promises, but the person of Christ, is the object of faith: We are not to wrest on the promises alone, but to close with Christ in those promises; and therefore in receiving of, or having recourse unto a promise, we are first to seek out for Christ in it, as being the foundation of it, and so to take hold of the promise in him: Thus Philip directs the Eunuch, Believe on the Lord Jesus: 1The promise is but the Casket, and Christ the Jewel in it; the promise but the field, Christ is the Pearl hid in it, and to be chiefly looked at: Thus it is said, That promises of pardon, are not as pardons of a Prince, which merely contain an expression of his royal word for pardon; but Gods promises are made in his Son, and are as if a Prince should offer to pardon a Traitor, upon marriage with his child, whom ⟨p. 165⟩in and with that pardon he tenders: The reason hereof is, because Christ is the grand promise, in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen.2
1. That not barely the promises, but the person of Christ, is the object of faith: We are not to wrest on the promises alone, but to close with Christ in those promises; and therefore in receiving of, or having recourse unto a promise, we are first to seek out for Christ in it, as being the foundation of it, and so to take hold of the promise in him: Thus Philip directs the Eunuch, Believe on the Lord Jesus: 1The promise is but the Casket, and Christ the Jewel in it; the promise but the field, Christ is the Pearl hid in it, and to be chiefly look'd at: Thus it is said, That promises of pardon, are not as pardons of a Prince, which meerly contain an expression of his royal word for pardon; but Gods promises are made in his Son, and are as if a Prince should offer to pardon a Traytor, upon marriage with his childe, whom