A75287:1217
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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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.
2. That faith strives to enter into the possession of this Kingdom by degrees: Men that purchase an inheritance to come in hereafter, they are glad if any part fall into their hands for the present: Fullness of glory is reserved for the life to come, but the beginnings of glory (as peace of Conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, Sanctification of the Spirit) are vouchsafed here; grace if the beginning of glory, and glory is the perfection of grace; now as grace grows, so we enter upon the possession of our inheritance: Hence lively grace covets grace more and more, that we may get Heaven by degrees, and by parcels.