A75287:1351
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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SECT. 1. Of Preparatives to Christian-Society.
Hitherto of secret Duties, and private Duties, so far as they concern every man in his own particular, and in his own family: Now as of many particulars consists a family, so of many families may consist this Christian-Society we are ready to treat of; and the rather do we fall upon it, because we hold it a Duty, to keep a constant, endeared and loving correspondence with the Saints, to communicate with experimental Christians, in their Experiences of Christ working and dwelling in them, To exhort one another, 1and so much the more, as we see the day approaching.
HItherto of secret Duties, and private Duties, so far as they concern every man in his own particular, and in his own family: Now as of many particulars consists a family, so of many families may consist this Christian-Society we are ready to treat of; and the rather do we fall upon it, because we hold it a Duty, to keep a constant, indeared and loving correspondence with the Saints, to communicate with experimental Christians, in their Experiences of Christ working and dwelling in them, To exhort one another, 1and so much the more, as we see the day approaching.
Now that we may jointly and comfortably carry on this Duty, observe we, 1. Our entrance into it. 2. Our proceedings in it.