A75287:201
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. Let us take matter and motives to humble our souls under the sight and sense of this inherent pollution. And to that purpose, consider we the rueful complaints of the holiest Saints against it:1 O wretched man that I am (saith Paul) who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Behold, I was shapen in iniquity (said David) and in sin did my mother conceive me: 2Did not God in Christ accept of our complaining, striving, grieving, and hating this, how could we find any comfort?
1. Let us take matter and motives to humble our souls under the sight and sence of this inherent pollution. And to that purpose, consider we the rueful complaints of the holiest Saints against it:1 O wretched man that I am (saith Paul) who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Behold, I was shapen in iniquity (said David) and in sin did my mother conceive me: 2Did not God in Christ accept of our complaining, striving, grieving, and hating this, how could we finde any comfort?
2. Let us pray against it, that though it be in us, yet it may not hurt us, nor be imputed to us; That God would give us his Spirit to bridle our corruption, and especially that he would give us the Spirit of Sanctification, that he would cleanse us from this filth more and more, that he would season the fountain, and at last dry it up.