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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 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.
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: Fulness 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.
3. Faith earnestly desires and longs after the full accomplishment of glory:1 Our selves also which have the first-fruits of the spirit, even we our selves groan within our selves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the Redemption of the body: 2I am in a full strait (said Paul) betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better: Salvation is the end of faith, Heaven is the home of Believers: Now all would be at home, all things desire perfection in their kind, this makes the Believer to long after glory.
3. Faith earnestly desires and longs after the full accomplishment of glory: