A75287:1085
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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4. Those evils that arise from men, are either oppositions against truth, concerning which, Mat. 10.19. Acts 18.9, 10. or oppositions against goodness, concerning which, Mat. 5.10. 1 Pet. 3.14. — or oppositions against both, and so they fall either on our good name, concerning which, Psal. 37.6. where howsoever ⟨p. 176⟩thy innocency be at some times covered (as it were) with a thick and dark mist of slander and oppression, yet the Lord will in his good time scatter and dissolve the mist, and so make thy innocency apparent to the world; yea, he will make thy righteousness as evident as the Sun when it ariseth, yea, as noon day, when it is at highest, and shines brightest, Psal. 68.13. Mat. 5.11, 12. 1 Pet. 4.14, &c.—or they may fall on us in respect of our liberty, and concerning which, Psal. 69.32, 33, and 102.19, 20. Rev. 2.10.— or they may deprive us of our goods, concerning which, 2 Chro. 25.9. Mat. 19.29. Habak. 3.17, 18.—or they may take away life, concerning which,