A75287:1361
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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5. Amiableness, Facility or Condescension: Rugged stones unhewn and unsquared, cannot fitly lie and join together in one building; sour, harsh and sullen spirits, are not fit for society: If there be a Nabal, who is such a son of Belial, that no man can speak to him, he may not be entertained: I know there are some good men of an harsh and rigid disposition, who make many a poor Christian to startle back, though he came with a resolution to consult and learn something of them: But there is in some others (whom I always prefer) an alluring facility, that doth call in the modest and blushing, who would otherwise step back: Now this sweet disposition for gaining of souls into the liking and relishing of the good ways of God, is a commendable Grace.
5. Amiableness, Facility or Condescention: Rugged stones unhewn and unsquared, cannot fitly lie and joyn together in one building; sowre, harsh and sullen spirits, are not fit for society: If there be a Nabal, who is such a son of Belial, that no man can speak to him, he may not be entertained: I know there are some good men of an harsh and ridgid disposition, who make many a poor Christian to startle back, though he came with a resolution to consult and learn something of them: But there is in some others (whom I always prefer) an alluring facility, that doth call in the modest and blushing, who would otherwise step back: Now this sweet disposition for gaining of souls into the liking and relishing of the good ways of God, is a commendable Grace.
6. Sobriety of spirit, in the suspending of all rashness of censures, and a patient bearing with some errors and offences, which unavoidably will sometimes fall out: The Apostle had respect unto this, when he admonished the Colossians, To forbear one another, 1& to forgive one another, if any man have a quarrel against any, or a matter of complaint (as the word signifieth) even as Christ forgave you: How quarrellous are some men? How loud and shrill, and ⟨p. 224⟩