A75287:1270
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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Now this correction must be ministered in Wisdom. Patience.
Now this correction must be ministred in Wisdom. Patience.
1. In wisdom, whose property it is to find out the right party that committed the fault, to consider of what sort and nature the fault is, to weigh circumstances of age, discretion and occasions; and to look to the mind of the doer, whether negligence or mere simplicity brought him to it.
1. In wisdom, whose property it is to finde out the right party that committed the fault, to consider of what sort and nature the fault is, to weigh circumstances of age, discretion and occasions; and to look to the minde of the doer, whether negligence or meer simplicity brought him to it.
2. In patience, whose property it is to make the fault manifest to the offender, that his conscience may be touched therewith; to hear what the offender can say in his own defence, and accordingly to allow or disallow; to avoid bitterness, which sooner will harden the heart, then reform the manners of the offender: These Rules being observed, and the heart lifted up in prayer to God for direction and blessing, this Correction is necessary, as is evident in Gen. 30.2. Prov. 13.24. and 19.18.
2. In patience, whose property it is to make the fault manifest to the offendor, that his conscience may be touched therewith; to hear what the offendor can say in his own defence, and accordingly to allow or dissallow; to avoid bitterness, which sooner will harden the heart, then reform the maners of the offendor: These Rules being observed, and the heart lifted up in prayer to God for direction and blessing, this Correction is necessary, as is evident in