A75287:1342
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. The inward Duty is Fear: Servants, 1be subject to your masters with all fear, and account them worthy of all honour: 2So proper is this fear to a Servant, as where it is wanting, there is a plain denial of his Masters place and power: If I be a master, ⟨p. 218⟩3where is my fear? said God: observe, I mean not an excessive, slavish fear; as when a servant fears nothing but the revenging power of his Master (such was the fear of that unprofitable servant,4 who could say to his Master, I knew that thou wert an hard man,—and I was afraid) but I mean an awful fear of provoking his Masters wrath, so as it makes him cast every way, how he may please his master, and such a fear draws him on cheerfully to perform his Duty.
1. The inward Duty is Fear: Servants, 1be subject to your masters with all fear, and account them worthy of all honor: 2So proper is this fear to a Servant, as where it is wanting, there is a plain denyal of his Masters place and power: If I be a master, ⟨p. 218⟩3where is my fear? said God: observe, I mean not an excessive, slavish fear; as when a servant fears nothing but the revenging power of his Master (such was the fear of that unprofitable servant,4 who could say to his Master, I knew that thou wert an hard man,—and I was afraid) but I mean an awful fear of provoking his Masters wrath, so as it makes him cast every way, how he may please his master, and such a fear draws him on chearfully to perform his Duty.