A75287:1292
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. Let Parents be to their children a good pattern in piety, leading them to Christ by their examples: This will take place with children, more then all precepts or paternal instructions: But as for me (said Joshua) and my house, we will serve the Lord; 1he sets himself first, as a guide to the rest.
4. Let Parents be to their children a good patern in piety, leading them to Christ by their examples: This will take place with children, more then all precepts or paternal instructions: But as for me (said Joshua) and my house, we will serve the Lord; 1he sets himself first, as a guide to the rest.
5. Let Parents reprove and correct their children for sin; and that the Lord may sanctify this correction unto them, Consider this, O ye parents, Do you observe such and such sins in your children? enter into your own hearts, examine your selves, whether they come not from you: Consider how justly the hand of God may be upon you: and when you are angry with your children, have an holy anger with your own selves, and use this or the like Meditation with your own souls, Lord, shall I thus punish my own sin in mine own child? shall I thus persecute the corruptions of mine own ancestors? how then mayest thou be displeased with me for the too carnal conception of my own child? It may be, I then lay in some sin, or I asked it not of thee by prayer: Be merciful to me, O Lord, and in thy good time, show thou pity on me and my child!