A75287:119
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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Quare. 2 2. But how should I know that Christ thus takes my Duties and heals them, and mingles them with his own incense, and carries them in unto God the Father?
Answ. Consider, didst thou never find a Spiritual fire come down (as it were) upon thy heart in Duty, or after Duty? In the times of the Old Testament, if they offered up a sacrifice, and a material fire came down from heaven, and burnt up the sacrifice to ashes, it was a certain testimony that the sacrifice was accepted: Now in the times of the Gospel, we must not expect material fire to come down upon our Duties, but hath the Lord at any time caused an inward and Spiritual fire to fall down upon thy heart, warming thy Spirit in Duty? there the Lord speaks thus much to thee, That thy sacrifice is turned into ashes, and it is accepted by Jesus Christ.
Answ. Consider, didst thou never finde a Spiritual fire come down (as it were) upon thy heart in Duty, or after Duty? In the times of the Old Testament, if they offered up a sacrifice, and a material fire came down from heaven, and burnt up the sacrifice to ashes, it was a certain testimony that the sacrifice was accepted: Now in the times of the Gospel, we must not expect material fire to come down upon our Duties, but hath the Lord at any time caused an inward and Spiritual fire to fall down upon thy heart, warming thy Spirit in Duty? there the Lord speaks thus much to thee, That thy sacrifice is turned into ashes, and it is accepted by Iesus Christ.
Quare. 3 3. O but whence comes this fire now in these Gospel times?