A75287:2099
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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12. If it be to the Saints above others: Others may have love and honour, according to their relations, qualities, worths; but true love bestows its Benjamins portion (the specialty and choice of its affections) upon the Saints.2
12. If it be to the Saints above others: Others may have love and honor, according to their relations, qualities, worths; but true love bestows its Benjamins portion (the specialty and choyce of its affections) upon the Saints.2
13. If it be to all the Saints: if it love grace in rags, as well as in Robes; if it love the absent, as well as present; if it love for the truths sake those he never saw, yet this hinders not the difference of degrees of love, which by the special providence of God some Christians may have to others, in some special eminency of respects.