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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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2. Here is presented to us the sufferings and breakings of Christ, enough to break our hardest hearts:—Consider them—
1. In themselves: What breakings, woundings, scourges, crownings, piercings, did he endure in his body? what conflicts, strugglings with the wrath of God, terrors of hell? what weight, burden, wrath, did he undergo, when his soul was heavy unto death, when he drank that bitter cup, that cup mingled with curses, which if man or Angel had but sipped of, it would have sunk them into Hell? nay, it made him who was God as well as man, sanctified with the Spirit, supported with the Deity, comforted by Angels, sweat such a sweat, as never man sweat, drops, very clods of blood?
1. In themselves: What breakings, woundings, scourges, crownings, piercings, did he endure in his body? what conflicts, struglings with the wrath of God, terrors of hell? what weight, burthen, wrath, did he undergo, when his soul was heavy unto death, when he drank that bitter cup, that cup mingled with curses, which if man or Angel had but sipt of, it would have sunk them into Hell? nay, it made him who was God as well as man, sanctified with the Spirit, supported with the Deity, comforted by Angels, swet such a sweat, as never man swet, drops, very clods of blood?
2. In the meriting cause of all our good, the procurers of all our peace, salvation: He was wounded, that we might be healed; scourged, 1that we might be solaced; He was slain, but not for himself: —He was wounded for our transgressions, broken for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.