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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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SECT. 7. Of the Saints delights in Duties.
1MY yoke is easy, and my burden is light, saith Christ; and that which makes it so, is, The delights which the Saints have in Gods service:2 I have delighted in the way of thy testimonies, saith David: I have? yes, and I will delight in thy statutes: I will? yes, and Thy testimonies are my delight: They are? yes, and My delight shall be in thy Commandments: They shall be? how long? even to perpetuity it self; I will delight continually in thy statutes. These are the strings David beats upon, and they make heavenly Music; Music even cheering him in the midst of his sorrows:3 Trouble and anguish are upon me, yet are thy ⟨p. 29⟩Commandments my delight: and, Unless thy Law had been my delight, I should have perished in my affliction.
1MY yoke is easie, and my burthen is light, saith Christ; and that which makes it so, is, The delights which the Saints have in Gods service:2 I have delighted in the way of thy testimonies, saith David: I have? yes, and I will delight in thy statutes: I will? yes, and Thy testimonies are my delight: They are? yes, and My delight shall be in thy Commandments: They shall be? how long? even to perpetuity it self; I will delight continually in thy statutes. These are the strings David beats upon, and they make heavenly Musick; Musick even cheering him in the midst of his sorrows: