A75287:2132
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. 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!
2. Here is presented to us the sufferings and breakings of Christ, enough to break our hardest hearts:—Consider them—