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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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6. That others might receive good, and thereby be occasioned to glorify God:1 These things are good, and profitable unto men, saith the Apostle; and, Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Christ doth not here encourage vain glory, but he propounds the true ends of our visible holiness; for godliness being light, it ought not (in suitable Duties) to be hid under a bushel: My goodness extendeth not to thee, 2but to the Saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. Hierome ⟨p. 23⟩said of Augustine, That he loved Christ dwelling in Augustine; so ought we to walk, that others may love Christ dwelling in us.
6. That others might receive good, and thereby be occasioned to glorifie God:1 These things are good, and profitable unto men, saith the Apostle; and, Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorifie your Father which is in heaven. Christ doth not here encourage vain glory, but he propounds the true ends of our visible holiness; for godliness being light, it ought not (in suitable Duties) to be hid under a bushel: My goodness extendeth not to thee, 2but to the Saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. Hierome ⟨p. 23⟩said of Augustine, That he loved Christ dwelling in Augustine; so ought we to walk, that others may love Christ dwelling in us.