A75287:1099
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. The Promises were these: Psal. 37.5, 6. Mat. 5.10, 11, 12. 1 Pet. 3.14. 1 Pet. 4.14. Psal. 68.13. Though you have lien among ⟨p. 179⟩the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold; q.d. though hitherto you have been as so many abjects, cast into the ends of the earth, as thrown amongst black and smoky pots, oppressed with mighty calamities, yet the time is at hand that ye shall be made white as doves; your innocency and happiness shall appear, and your white shall be intermixed with the colour of pure and yellow gold; (i.) you shall come to the top of the highest felicity, and ye shall be freed from slanders, and obtain illustrious glory.
1. The Promises were these: Psal. 37.5, 6. Mat. 5.10, 11, 12. 1 Pet. 3.14. 1 Pet. 4.14. Psal. 68.13. Though you have lyen among ⟨p. 179⟩the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold; q.d. though hitherto you have been as so many abjects, cast into the ends of the earth, as thrown amongst black and smoaky pots, oppressed with mighty calamities, yet the time is at hand that ye shall be made white as doves; your innocency and happiness shall appear, and your white shall be intermixt with the colour of pure and yellow gold; (i.) you shall come to the top of the highest felicity, and ye shall be freed from slanders, and obtain illustrious glory.