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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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The first of these Graces, which must be stirred up or exercised, is Repentance: And this will be actuated, if we consider Gods love in Christ, and Christs sorrows and sufferings for sin: There are many things in the Ordinance, which if but looked upon with the eye of faith, will open all the springs of true spiritual sorrow, or Repentance in the soul, but we name only these two particulars:
The first of these Graces, which must be stirred up or exercised, is Repentance: And this will be actuated, if we consider Gods love in Christ, and Christs sorrows and sufferings for sin: There are many things in the Ordinance, which if but looked upon with the eye of faith, will open all the springs of true spiritual sorrow, or Repentance in the soul, but we name onely these two particulars:
1. Here is a discovery of the love and sweetness of God, in giving his Son to dye for us: So God loved the world, 1that he gave his only begotten Son, &c. enough to cause us to mourn that ever we offended: O that God should be more tender to us, then to his ⟨p. 292⟩Son, not sparing his Son, that he might spare us; give him to dye, that we might live; pour the curse upon him, that the blessing might be poured upon us: Who can think on this, and withhold from tears!
1. Here is a discovery of the love and sweetness of God, in giving his Son to dye for us: So God loved the world, 1that he gave his onely begotten Son, &c. enough to cause us to mourn that ever we offended: O that God should be more tender to us, then to his ⟨p. 292⟩Son, not sparing his Son, that he might spare us; give him to dye, that we might live; pour the curse upon him, that the blessing might be poured upon us: Who can think on this, and withhold from tears!