A75287:1040
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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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?
2. For prayer, and the parts and manner of it, observe this method:
2. For prayer, and the parts and maner of it, observe this method:
1. Lay open our sorrows before the Lord, pour out our complaints into his bosom:1 I am the man that have seen affliction by the rod of thine anger, thou hast brought me into darkness but not into light: 2—Lord, how am I beset with miseries? how do my sorrows increase daily? 3how are they increased that trouble me?