A75287:207
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. Avoid we all occasions of evil: Be afraid, not only of the fire and flame, but of the very smoke of sin; it is dangerous to approach near the Whirl-pit, or to play about the hole of the Asp, or the den of the Cockatrice; and therefore prayed David, Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; 1not my heart only from affecting it, but mine eyes also from beholding it: There is a shutting of the eyes from beholding evil, 2brought in amongst other Duties by the Prophet Isaiah, to which is affixed this promise,3 that such a one shall dwell on high, his place of defence shall be the munition of Rocks.
1. Avoid we all occasions of evil: Be afraid, not onely of the fire and flame, but of the very smoke of sin; it is dangerous to approach near the Whirl-pit, or to play about the hole of the Asp, or the den of the Cockatrice; and therefore prayed David, Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; 1not my heart onely from affecting it, but mine eyes also from beholding it: There is a shutting of the eyes from beholding evil, 2brought in amongst other Duties by the Prophet Isaiah, to which is affixed this promise,3 that such a one shall dwell on high, his place of defence shall be the munition of Rocks.
- 1Psa. 119.37.
- 2Isa. 33.15.
- 316.