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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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3. Promises to remove sickness, are these and the like: Exo. 23.25. Deut. 7.15. Isa. 4.31.
2. For Poverty, we may store up these Promises, Psal. 23. throughout, Psal. 34.9, 10. Psal. 37.25. Heb. 13.15. The wicked indeed may have more abundance then the Christian, but here's the difference, the wicked hath all by a Providence, the Christian hath all by a Promise: and this distinction the poor Christian would not part with for a world of gold.
3. For Famine, we may store up these Promises, Job 5.19, 20. Psal. 33.18, 19. Prov. 10.2, 3. Psal. 37.18, 19. Isa. 41.17, 18. Some Martyrs being cast into Prison, and denied necessary food, they had faith to return this answer, If men will give us no meat, we believe God will give us no stomach. When Christ was an hungered, and Satan tempts him to command stones to be made bread, he answered,