A75287:1093
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 ⟨p. 178⟩wounded and broken, I go mourning and desolate all the day long.
1. Confess our sins of former ignorance, vanity of minde, 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, harbored 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