A75287:1263
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. To oversee the ways of their Families, that they serve ⟨p. 202⟩God; and as in all other duties, so especially in sanctifying the Sabbaths: To this the very words in the fourth Commandment, do bind all Masters of families: Remember, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid;—Where the Lord speaks by name to the Governors, as if he would make them overseers of this work of sanctifying his Sabbaths.
2. To oversee the ways of their Families, that they serve ⟨p. 202⟩God; and as in all other duties, so especially in sanctifying the Sabbaths: To this the very words in the fourth Commandment, do binde all Masters of families: Remember, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid;—Where the Lord speaks by name to the Governors, as if he would make them overseers of this work of sanctifying his Sabbaths.
3. To set their house in order for the service of God, to offer prayers and praises to the Lord morning and evening, before and after meals:1 This was Davids practice, Evening and morning, and at noon will I pray and cry aloud, and he shall hear my voice; and this was Jobs practice,2 who sent for, and sanctified his sons and daughters, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings, according to the number of them all:—Thus did Job continually: And this was Abraham's practice wheresoever he came,3 to build an Altar to God, where God should be worshipped jointly of him and his family: And this was Christs practice for himself and his family,