A75287:1317
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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3. In the truth of Christs love: This was manifested by the fruits thereof to his Church;1 He gave himself for it, that he might sanctify it, and cleanse it, and present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle: So must husbands love their wives in truth and in deed, by guiding them in the way of life, and path that is called Holy: for this is the truest character of a sincere love.
3. In the truth of Christs love: This was manifested by the fruits thereof to his Church;1 He gave himself for it, that he might sanctifie it, and cleanse it, and present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinckle: So must husbands love their wives in truth and in deed, by guiding them in the way of life, and path that is called Holy: for this is the truest character of a sincere love.
- 1Eph. 5.25, 16, 27.
4. In the quality of his love: Christs love is an holy, pure, and chaste love: as he himself is, so is his love, such must be the love of husbands, an holy, pure and chaste love. Away with all intemperate, excessive, or any ways exorbitant pollutions of the marriage-bed! from which, if the fear of God, imitation of Christ, love of purity, awfulness of Gods all-seeing eye cannot draw, yet that slavish horror, lest God should punish such a couple with no children, or with mis-shapen children, or with idiots, or with prodigiously wicked children, or with some other heavy cross, one would think should be able to affright them.