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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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No such thing: For herein we speak not of Duties originally, or per se, but instrumentally, and with relation to the Lord Jesus Christ; not as meritorious causes, but as subordinate means of our salvation in the name of Christ: The best of Duties carry no such lustre, beauty, and Energetical virtue in their own faces and natures; they are but mere empty pits, and dry channels (of themselves) though never so curiously cut out, but Christ fills them (and as some desire Ministers to do) so I am willing for my part to say and express thus much of Christ, 1that the people may clearly understand and remember so much, and be guided explicitly to the Fountain it self, Christ alone.
No such thing: For herein we speak not of Duties originally, or per se, but instrumentally, and with relation to the Lord Jesus Christ; not as meritorious causes, but as subordinate means of our salvation in the name of Christ: The best of Duties carry no such lustre, beauty, and Energetical vertue in their own faces and natures; they are but meer empty pits, and dry chanels (of themselves) though never so curiously cut out, but Christ fills them (and as some desire Ministers to do) so I am willing for my part to say and express thus much of Christ, 1that the people may clearly understand and remember so much, and be guided explicitely to the Fountain it self, Christ alone.
- 1Dr. Crisp on Phil. 3.8.
5. That these Duties may turn to our comforts: Not so, as to put confidence in them, to take comfort from them as a cause; that cannot be, for who can look upon any thing he doth with that boldness? but as the testimony of Gods eternal love to us.1