A75287:1283
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Under nourishment, are comprised Food, Apparel, Recreation, means for recovery of health when they are sick; in which if Parents provide not for their Children, they are worse then Infidels: And under nurture, are comprised good manners, a good calling, frequent admonition, reprehension, correction, the last remedy, which may do good when nothing else can, Prov. 19.18.—23.13, 14.—29.17.
Under nourishment, are comprised Food, Apparel, Recreation, means for recovery of health when they are sick; in which if Parents provide not for their Children, they are worse then Infidels: And under nurture, are comprised good maners, a good calling, frequent admonition, reprehension, correction, the last remedy, which may do good when nothing else can, Prov. 19.18.—23.13, 14.—29.17.
3. The last time to which parents provident care extendeth it self, is the time of their departure out of the world, & then they are to set their house in order, & to leave their estates to their children.
2. The duties of Parents to the souls of their children, extends it self also to all times, as, 1. To their Infancy. 2. To their Youth. 3. To the time of Parents departure out of this world.