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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 if the wicked reproach more and more, yet it is the duty of Christians to exercise patience. Experience of their vanities, and Gods gracious dealings with us, will fortify our hearts: Fear not thou worm (thou poor despicable thing) I will help thee, 1saith the Lord thy Redeemer; and as for thy reproachers, their doom is before, Behold, all they that are incensed against thee, 2shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing, and they that strive with thee shall perish.
3. That if the wicked reproach more and more, yet it is the duty of Christians to exercise patience. Experience of their vanities, and Gods gracious dealings with us, will fortifie our hearts: Fear not thou worm (thou poor despicable thing) I will help thee, 1saith the Lord thy Redeemer; and as for thy reproachers, their doom is before, Behold, all they that are incensed against thee, 2shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing, and they that strive with thee shall perish.
- 1Isa. 41.14.
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4. That faith makes the soul circumspect, and in this case doth ransack and fan the soul narrowly, to find out what is the matter and rise of those slanders & reproaches:1 If ye suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye; it must be for righteousness sake, or there is no blessing upon it: and so the Apostle adds,