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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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7. If he would not change his present station, though never so base, 1poor and neglected in the world (yet accompanied with the state of Grace and Christianity) for the most rich and glorious estate of the greatest man upon earth, where there is nothing but profaneness and unregeneration; if all this whole great world ⟨p. 283⟩about, were turned into gold, honour and pleasures, and in respect of the comfort of Grace, it were dung, vanity, nothing.
7. If he would not change his present station, though never so base, 1poor and neglected in the world (yet accompanied with the state of Grace and Christianity) for the most rich and glorious estate of the greatest man upon earth, where there is nothing but prophaneness and unregeneration; if all this whole great world ⟨p. 283⟩about, were turned into gold, honor and pleasures, and in respect of the comfort of Grace, it were dung, vanity, nothing.
8.1 If he would not be in the state and case he was before (though he then thought that good enough) for any worldly good, for ten thousand worlds.