A75287:1329
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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A most memorable and famous pattern for this purpose, is recorded by* Vives: A young, tender and beautiful Maid was matched (as he reports) to a man stricken in years, whom after marriage she found to have a very fulsome and diseased body, full of many loathsome and contagious diseases: yet notwithstanding, out of sense and conscience that by Gods providence she was become his wife, she most worthily digested all with incredible ⟨p. 215⟩patience: friends and Physicians advised her by no means to come near him, and for their parts they utterly forsook him; but she (passing by with a loving disdain those unkind dissuasions) becomes to him in their stead, Friend, Physician, Nurse, Mother, Sister, Daughter, Servant, every thing, any thing to do him good any manner of way. At last by extraordinary expense, and excessive charges about him, she came to some want of some necessaries, whereupon she sold her Ring, Chains, richest Attire, Plate, and choicest Jewels: and when he was dead, and friends came about her, rather to congratulate her happy riddance, then to bewail her widowhood, she not only abhorred all speeches tending that way, but protested, if it were possible, she would willingly redeem her husbands life with the loss of her five dearest children. Whence it appears, that this worthy woman was wedded to her husbands soul, not to his body, seeing no infirmity or deformity thereof, could cool or weaken the fervency of her love.
A most memorable and famous patern for this purpose, is recorded by* Vives: A yong, tender and beautiful Maid was matched (as he reports) to a man stricken in years, whom after marriage she found to have a very fulsom and diseased body, full of many loathsom and contagious diseases: yet notwithstanding, out of sence and conscience that by Gods providence she was become his wife, she most worthily digested all with incredible ⟨p. 215⟩patience: friends and Physicians advised her by no means to come near him, and for their parts they utterly forsook him; but she (passing by with a loving disdain those unkinde disswasions) becomes to him in their stead, Friend, Physician, Nurse, Mother, Sister, Daughter, Servant, every thing, any thing to do him good any maner of way. At last by extraordinary expence, and excessive charges about him, she came to some want of some necessaries, whereupon she sold her Ring, Chains, richest Attire, Plate, and choycest Jewels: and when he was dead, and friends came about her, rather to congratulate her happy riddance, then to bewail her widowhood, she not onely abhorred all speeches tending that way, but protested, if it were possible, she would willingly redeem her husbands life with the loss of her five dearest children. Whence it appears, that this worthy woman was wedded to her husbands soul, not to his body, seeing no infirmity or deformity thereof, could cool or weaken the fervency of her love.