A75287:1372
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. 3. Of a mutual serviceableness to the bodies and souls of one another.
There must be in this Christian-Society, a mutual serviceableness: 1. To the bodies. 2. To the souls one of another.
THere must be in this Christian-Society, a mutual serviceableness: 1. To the bodies. 2. To the souls one of another.
1. To the bodies of one another: The primitive Christians excelled in this care, they put their estates (by reason of the persecution) into a common stock, 1that all, even the poorest sort, that in those hard and uncertain times, gave their names to Christianity, might be tended and looked on with equal care and respect: I know some have stretched this too far, to make ⟨p. 227⟩it a leading case and binding example; but thus far it holds, that if the necessity of the faithful call for it, even all that we have must be serviceable in order and in due respects: The Catalogue runs thus; 1. The public state wherein we live, we must provide for. 2. Our selves. 3. Our wives. 4. Our parents. 5. Our children and family. 6. The household of faith. 7. Our kindred. 8. Our nearest neighbours and common friends. 9. Our countrymen. 10. Strangers. 11. Enemies. It is truly an acceptable service to God, and a glorious Ministry, to tend the Lords poor and sick; therefore Paul sometimes took upon him the fellowship of the ministering to the Saints,