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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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THE Believers Privileges. › Chapter 3THE Believers Priviledges. › Chapter 3
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CHAP. III.
SECT. 1. Of Duties in particular: And first, of the Nature of Watchfulness.
Watchfulness is the first and principal help to all exercises of Religion; it is the eye to see them all well done and used, and therefore we set it in the front of all Duties: We are to watch unto prayer, Eph. 6.18.1 and we are to watch unto hearing, Luke 8.18.2 and we are to watch unto fasting, Mat. 6.18.3 we are to watch to almsgiving, Mat. 6.1.4 and we are to watch in all things, 2 Tim. 4.5.5
VVAtchfulness is the first and principal help to all exercises of Religion; it is the eye to see them all well done and used, and therefore we set it in the front of all Duties: We are to watch unto prayer,