A75287:1092
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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3. That in the most forcible tempests, which God, Devil or Man raiseth against us (when to present sense and feeling all sight and hope of the grace and goodness in Christ Jesus is lost) then faith tells the heart, that a calm is at hand. The last temptation wherewith Satan set upon Christ, was the most furious, and when he could not prevail thereby, he departed for a season: The Lord will not suffer us to be tempted above measure. This faith assures of, and persuades us quietly to wait for the issue.
3. That in the most forcible tempests, which God, Devil or Man raiseth against us (when to present sense and feeling all sight and hope of the grace and goodness in Christ Jesus is lost) then faith tells the heart, that a calm is at hand. The last temptation wherewith Satan set upon Christ, was the most furious, and when he could not prevail thereby, he departed for a season: The Lord will not suffer us to be tempted above measure. This faith assures of, and perswades us quietly to wait for the issue.
2. For prayer, and the manner of it, observe this method:
2. For prayer, and the maner of it, observe this method:
1. Confess our sins of former ignorance, vanity of mind, self-confidence, solitary musings on the temptations of Satan, misinterpreting of the Lords doings, &c. which set open the soul to all other spiritual evils:—O my God, I have disesteemed thy mercy, distrusted thy promises, harboured thoughts of unbelief, &c. and so hav• exposed my soul to the most violent, horrible and fiery temptations of the world, flesh, Devil, and my own lusts: my soul, which should have been ravished with the joys of Heaven, and with the kisses of Christ, is continually pestered and assailed with the black and hellish thoughts of Atheism, Blasphemy, and soul-vexing fears; my heart trembleth, my strength faileth, my life is spent with grief, my spirit within me is overwhelmed, and prevailing fears so tyrannize over me, that I cannot speak, I am sore