A75287:1309
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. A provident care of one for another; which extends to the body:1 No man hateth his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it: and to the good name; Joseph was not willing to make Mary a public example: 2and to the goods of this world; in which if there fall out any cross providence, they are both to join with Jobs spirit,3 The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken, &c. But especially to the soul; in praying together, for and with one another; in taking notice of the beginning and least measure of grace, and approving the same; in conferring about such things as concern the same, mutually propounding questions, and giving answers one to another; in maintaining holy and religious exercises in the Family, and betwixt their own selves, in stirring up one another to hear the Word, to receive the Sacraments, and conscionably to perform all the parts of Gods public Worship: In case the one prove unconverted, let the other wait, and pray, and expect Gods good time: or in case the one be a babe in Christ, or weak in Christianity, let the other deal fairly, lovingly, meekly, and let our Lord Jesus his tender-heartedness to Spiritual yonglings, teach us mercy this way, who is said to gather the lambs with his arms, and to carry them in his bosom, 4and gently to lead those that are with young.
2. A provident care of one for another; which extends to the body:1 No man hateth his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it: and to the good name; Joseph was not willing to make Mary a publike example: 2and to the goods of this world; in which if there fall out any cross providence, they are both to joyn with Jobs spirit,3 The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken, &c. But especially to the soul; in praying together, for and with one another; in taking notice of the beginning and least measure of grace, and approving the same; in conferring about such things as concern the same, mutually propounding questions, and giving answers one to another; in maintaining holy and religious exercises in the Family, and betwixt their own selves, in stirring up one another to hear the Word, to receive the Sacraments, and conscionably to perform all the parts of Gods publike Worship: In case the one prove unconverted, let the other wait, and pray, and expect Gods good time: or in case the one be a babe in Christ, or weak in Christianity, let the other deal fairly, lovingly, meekly, and let our Lord Jesus his tender-heartedness to Spiritual yonglings, teach us mercy this way, who is said to gather the lambs with his arms, and to carry them in his bosom,