A75287:1086
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. Those evils which arise from God, are desertions; and for comforts against them, consider these promises, Isa. 49.14, 15, 16. and 54.7, 8. and 50.10.
6. Those evils that arise from our selves are sins and infirmities, and they are either spiritual blindness, concerning which, Luke 4.18. 1 John 2.27. Isa. 35.4, 5.—or spiritual lameness, concerning which, Isa. 35.6. and 40.31.—or heaviness of mind, concerning which, Isa. 35.1, 2. Jer. 66.12, 13, 14.—or weakness of memory, concerning which, John 14.26. or fears of losing Gods love, concerning which, Isa. 49.15. and 54.10. Jer. 33.20. Psal. 89.33, 34, 35. Joh. 13.1.