A75287:2092
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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5. If it bring forth fruits meet for Repentance: 1This was the sum, as of Johns, so of Pauls preaching, that Jew and Gentile should repent, and turn to God, and do works worthy amendment of life: nay, it is the very sum of the Gospel, To mourn, 2to be comforted, that they might be called Trees of Righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
6. If it be stirred up by the sense of Gods goodness: So that nothing more fires a man to abase himself in the sense of his own vileness, then to feel and find the gracious goodness and readiness of God in Christ, to show him mercy;1 He feareth the Lord and his goodness.
6. If it be stirred up by the sense of Gods goodness: So that nothing more fires a man to abase himself in the sense of his own vileness, then to feel and finde the gracious goodness and readiness of God in Christ, to shew him mercy;1 He feareth the Lord and his goodness.