A75287:1704
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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1. Because in secret they could confess more enlargedly and feelingly their own sins, then others could do it for them in public, to whom they were not particularly known.
1. Because in secret they could confess more inlargedly and feelingly their own sins, then others could do it for them in publike, to whom they were not particularly known.
2. Because in secret they had fewer occasions of distraction, then in public, and consequently they kept closer to God in the Duty.
2. Because in secret they had fewer occasions of distraction, then in publike, and consequently they kept closer to God in the Duty.
3. Because they found by experience, that in secret their hearts were more up; and when they themselves were to perform in public, the Society whom they joined with, did ordinarily more straiten them.
3. Because they found by experience, that in secret their hearts were more up; and when they themselves were to perform in publike, the Society whom they joyned with, did ordinarily more straiten them.