A75287:1360
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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4. Love: A grace of such use and influence, that without love there can be no Christian Society; it is love that joins hands and hearts: So the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, For Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 1Love disposeth men to all spiritual Offices, to pray together, sing together, talk or confer together; on the contrary, all the gifts in the world, how excellent soever, are nothing worth without love: Though I spake with the tongues of men and Angels; 2Though I had the gifts of all prophecy, and understood all mysteries, and all knowledge, and have not love, I am nothing.
4. Love: A grace of such use and influence, that without love there can be no Christian Society; it is love that joyns hands and hearts: So the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, For Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 1Love disposeth men to all spiritual Offices, to pray together, sing together, talk or confer together; on the contrary, all the gifts in the world, how excellent soever, are nothing worth without love: Though I spake with the tongues of men and Angels; 2Though I had the gifts of all prophesie, and understood all mysteries, and all knowledge, and have not love, I am nothing.