A75287:112
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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Now the manner (O my soul) how Christ heals our Duties, it is thus:
NOw the maner (O my soul) how Christ heals our Duties, it is thus:
1. He takes our persons, and carries them in to God the Father, in a most unperceivable way to us; he knows, that if our persons be not first accepted, our Duties cannot be accepted: Love me, and love my Duty; hate me, and hate my Duty. It is true, that in the Covenant of Works, God first accepted of the work, and then of the person; but in the Covenant of Grace, God first accepts of the person, and then of the work: Now therefore, that our works (our Duties) may be accepted, Christ Jesus our great High Priest first takes our persons, and carries them into the presence of God the Father: This was plainly shadowed out to us, by that of the High Priest,1 who went into the holy of holiest, with the Names of all the Tribes upon his breast.
1. He takes our persons, and carries them in to God the Father, in a most unperceivable way to us; he knows, that if our persons be not first accepted, our Duties cannot be accepted: Love me, and love my Duty; hate me, and hate my Duty. It is true, that in the Covenant of Works, God first accepted of the work, and then of the person; but in the Covenant of Grace, God first accepts of the person, and then of the work: Now therefore, that our works (our Duties) may be accepted, Christ Iesus our great High Priest first takes our persons, and carries them into the presence of God the Father: This was plainly shadowed out to us, by that of the High Priest,1 who went into the holy of holiest, with the Names of all the Tribes upon his breast.