A75287:1039
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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5. That 'tis Gods will, after we have gone to the promise, to use all lawful means of help which God in his providence affords; but in point of dependence, that we solely rest on Gods promises: Faith coupleth the means and the end, but looketh to the Promiser (whose truth, and wisdom, and power, and mercy, never fails) and not to the probability of the thing promised: Abraham against hope, believed in hope, —That what God had promised, 1he was able to perform.
5. That 'tis Gods will, after we have gone to the promise, to use all lawful means of help which God in his providence affords; but in point of dependance, that we solely rest on Gods promises: Faith coupleth the means and the end, but looketh to the Promiser (whose truth, and wisdom, and power, and mercy, never fails) and not to the probability of the thing promised: Abraham against hope, believed in hope, —That what God had promised, 1he was able to perform.
6. That the promises are in Christ, Yea and Amen, and therefore set it down and conclude, that God will do whatsoever he ⟨p. 170⟩hath promised, and we shall receive it in the ways of his providence;1 it may be not yet, what then? He that believes will not make haste: Daniel waited Seventy years for deliverance out of captivity in Babylon, and may not we wait Seventy weeks, Seventy days?