A75287:1059
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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1. For Meditation, and the matter of it, consider these things:
1. That faith in this case doth ransack, and fan the soul narrowly to find out and remove whatsoever doth offend: If thou return to the Almighty thou shalt be built up, 1thou shalt put iniquity far from thy tabernacles: then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. This advice faith digests, and labours the reformation of what is amiss, and whatsoever hinders the Promise.
1. That faith in this case doth ransack, and fan the soul narrowly to finde out and remove whatsoever doth offend: If thou return to the Almighty thou shalt be built up, 1thou shalt put iniquity far from thy tabernacles: then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. This advice faith digests, and labors the reformation of what is amiss, and whatsoever hinders the Promise.
2. That faith is painful, provident and frugal; it shakes off idleness, takes the opportunity, husbands thriftily, and observes Gods providence in all affairs, otherwise we live not by faith, but tempt God, and throw away his Promises and all.