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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
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2. The Promises to qualify evils, are these and the like: Psal. ⟨p. 167⟩103.13, 14. Isa. 49.13, 14, 15. Hos. 11.8, 9. In this last Promise, God imitates Parents (saith Theodoret) when any misery is upon their child, their bowels yearn more; never sits the child so much on the Mothers lap, never lies so much in her bosom, as when he is sick: So the Spouse being sick of love (i.) in some misery,1 Christ stayeth her with flagons, comforts her with apples, his left hand is under her head, and his right hand doth embrace her: Psal. 56.8. where we may read Gods compassion to his children in their calamities, that he narrowly observes every one of them; Thou tellest my wanderings] yea, he makes so precious a reckoning of their griefs and sorrows, that not a tear falls to the ground, but he keeps it, preserves it (as precious liquor) in his bottle; Put my tears into thy bottle] yea, he keeps them in memory, he notes them and writes them his book, as if he would chronicle our tears for everlasting remembrance; Are they not in thy book?] 2 Chron. 4.17. Is there or can there be any richer or fuller expression in Tully, then there is in the Greek, where there is both an elegant Antithesis, and double Hyperbole, beyond Englishing, [Greek or Hebrew]; for affliction, glory; for light affliction, heavy, massive, substantial glory, a weight of glory; for momentany affliction, eternal glory: nay, the Apostle adds degrees of comparison, yea goes beyond all degrees, calling it more excellent, far more excellent, an Hyperbole, Hyperbole, exceeding excessive, eternal weight of glory.