A75287:1316
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. 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, 1because he loved us first:—Because of the savour of thy oyntments, 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 patern of Christ should rather stir up the husbands to go before them.