A75287:1241
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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SECT. 1. Of the nature of Family-duties.
Hitherto of the Duties which concern every man in his own particular; next to them succeed Family-duties: And they are such Duties as ought to be jointly or respectively observed by the families and houses of the people of God. This is implied by that threat, Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not,1 and upon the families that call not on thy Name; and by that example of Joshua, But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord;2 and by that promise of God, At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
HItherto of the Duties which concern every man in his own particular; next to them succeed Family-duties: And they are such Duties as ought to be joyntly or respectively observed by the families and houses of the people of God. This is implyed by that threat, Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not,1 and upon the families that call not on thy Name; and by that example of Joshua, But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord;2 and by that promise of God, At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.