A75287:2047
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. 5. Examination of the truth of our Graces, and first of our Conversion.
Our sins and want of Graces thus examined, the soul is in good measure prepared; yet because the Lord Jesus abhors to be food to nourish, where he was not seed to beget, it concerns all who desire to taste of the sealing power of the second Sacrament, first to prove the sealing power of the former Sacrament; before they come to be nourished as Saints, let them know whether they are begot and made Saints: and to that end they must examine further, 1. The truth of their Graces. 2. The growth of their Graces.
OƲr sins and want of Graces thus examined, the soul is in good measure prepared; yet because the Lord Jesus abhors to be food to nourish, where he was not seed to beget, it concerns all who desire to taste of the sealing power of the second Sacrament, first to prove the sealing power of the former Sacrament; before they come to be nourished as Saints, let them know whether they are begot and made Saints: and to that end they must examine further, 1. The truth of their Graces. 2. The growth of their Graces.
1. For the truth of their Graces, it is good to begin with the beginning; and first to examine their conversion, and secondly the individual companions of their conversion, as their Knowledge, and Faith, and Repentance, and Love, and Obedience, and desires after this Ordinance.