A75287:1265
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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4. To instruct their families privately in matters of Religion, that they may not only profess, but feel the power of Religion in their lives and conversations: This duty hath these specials belonging to it,
4. To instruct their families privately in matters of Religion, that they may not onely profess, but feel the power of Religion in their lives and conversations: This duty hath these specials belonging to it,
1. A familiar catechizing of them in the principles of Religion:1 Thus were Parents commanded of old, Thou shalt teach these words diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, 2and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
2. A daily reading of Scriptures in their hearing, directing them to mark and to make use of them: So Timothy was trained up by his parents,1 and that from his childhood.