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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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2. That as he is gracious to us, so we should be cheerful in our Duties to him: This cheerfulness of service, is the very fruit of faith; By faith Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock, 1and of the fat thereof, an offering to the Lord; By faith David went with the multitude unto the house of God, with the voice of joy and of ⟨p. 192⟩praise: It is the voice of faith, I will sing and give praise with the best member I have.
2. That as he is gracious to us, so we should be chearful in our Duties to him: This chearfulness of service, is the very fruit of faith; By faith Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock, 1and of the fat thereof, an offering to the Lord; By faith David went with the multitude unto the house of God, with the voyce of joy and of ⟨p. 192⟩praise: It is the voyce of faith, I will sing and give praise with the best member I have.
3. That to make us cheerful, we should rouse our selves to awaken to the work of our God: Arise, O my soul, why sleepest thou! stir up thy self with readiness to obey the charge of God in the duties prescribed; look on the Saints who have gone before thee, they endured imprisonment, loss of liberty, spoiling of their goods, hazard of life: Thou art not yet called to suffer, but to obey, why dost thou delay, or goest forth unwillingly? wouldest thou reign with them, and not labour with them? receive the prize, and not run the race? divide the spoil, and not fight the battle? look on the promise annexed to the duty: