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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. For the exercise of faith concerning these promises, that we may live by them, go we to Meditation. Prayer.
1. For Meditation, and the matter of it, consider these things:
1. That faith in the precious promises of eternal life, quiets and cheers the heart in the midst of discouragements: This we see in the lives and deaths of Gods faithful servants, who took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, 1knowing in themselves, that they had in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.
1. That faith in the precious promises of eternal life, quiets and chears the heart in the midst of discouragements: This we see in the lives and deaths of Gods faithful servants, who took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, 1knowing in themselves, that they had in Heaven a better and an induring substance.