A75287:1323
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. The Duties proper to the wife, are these, 1. That she be in submission to her husband. 2. That she be an helper to him all her days.
11. Wives must be in subjection to their own husbands: Sarah obeyed Abraham, and called him Lord: But here's a case of conscience:—
- 1G•n 3.16. Eph. 5.22. 1 Pet. 3.1, 6.
1. What if her husband be a son of Belial, an enemy to Christ? must she then yield subjection?— Yes: because in his office her husband is as in Christs stead: The Church is compared to a lily among thorns, 1she remains lily like, white, soft, pleasant, and amiable, though she be joined with thorns, which are prickly and sharp: So a wife must be meek, mild, gentle, obedient, though she be matched with a crooked, perverse, profane and wicked husband: She must in this case remove her eyes from the disposition of her husbands person, to the condition of his place, and by virtue thereof (seeing he beareth Christs image) be subject unto him as unto Christ.
1. What if her husband be a son of Belial, an enemy to Christ? must she then yield subjection?— Yes: because in his office her husband is as in Christs stead: The Church is compared to a lilly among thorns,