A75287:1389
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 In fasting for the afflicting, and humbling of the soul; so Ezra and his men, and Esther and her maids, maintained communion ⟨p. 230⟩together: Such Fasting-days, are soul-feeding-days, and soul-curing-days; some diseases, some lusts will go out no other ways.
5. In mutual bemoanings, confessions, and opening of our sores and wounds; it may be, when the Apostle saith, Confess your faults one to another, he means more then acknowledgement of offences, whereby a man hath sinned against his brother; viz. that Christians should also bewail their failings, infirmities, deadness, unsavouriness, coldness, narrowness, unfruitfulness to one another, to see whether others have been in the same case, and what course they took, and what remedy they procured: many souls may perish through too much reservedness and modesty.
5. In mutual bemoanings, confessions, and opening of our sores and wounds; it may be, when the Apostle saith, Confess your faults one to another, he means more then acknowledgement of offences, whereby a man hath sinned against his brother; viz. that Christians should also bewail their failings, infirmities, deadness, unsavoriness, coldness, narrowness, unfruitfulness to one another, to see whether others have been in the same case, and what course they took, and what remedy they procured: many souls may perish through too much reservedness and modesty.
6. In holy Conference: This indeed is it that might much improve the meeting of Christians. In the Prophets time, when proud scorners, and profane spirited men talked vainly, and did even what they list,