A75287:1315
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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1. In the cause of his love, which is his love: 1He set his love on you, because he loved you; his love arose wholly and solely from himself, and was every way free: so should husbands love their wives, though there be nothing in wives to move them, but merely because they are wives.
1. In the cause of his love, which is his love: 1He set his love on you, because he loved you; his love arose wholly and solely from himself, and was every way free: so should husbands love their wives, though there be nothing in wives to move them, but meerly because they are wives.
2. In the order of his love: Christ began it to the Church, before the Church could love him: and as a wall is first smitten on by the Sun beams, before it give a reflection of her heat back again; so the Church is first heated and warmed at heart by the sense of Christs love, before she love him again: We love him, 1because he loved us first:—Because of the savour of thy ointments, therefore do the virgins love thee; so should husbands begin to love their own wives: I know some wives prevent their husbands herein, and there may be reason for it; but the greater is ⟨p. 212⟩their glory. This pattern of Christ should rather stir up the husbands to go before them.
2. In the order of his love: Christ began it to the Church, before the Church could love him: and as a wall is first smitten on by the Sun beams, before it give a reflection of her heat back again; so the Church is first heated and warmed at heart by the sense of Christs love, before she love him again: We love him,