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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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1. Of his body broken and wounded:1 He was wounded for ⟨p. 294⟩our transgressions,—And with his stripes we are healed: What sweet comfort may faith fetch hence? Look now upon the wounds of Christ, as healing wounds, as a City of refuge, whither thy pursued soul by the avenger of blood, may fly for safety and sanctuary: Indeed I am a grievous sinner, I have wounded my conscience with my transgressions, but behold my Saviour here wounded for my transgressions: I may well have a troubled conscience for the wounds my transgressions have made therein; yet my conscience needs not sink in a despondency of spirit, whiles I look at the wounds of Christ: Here are wounds for wounds, healing wounds for stabbing wounds, curing wounds for killing wounds: O what comfort is here for faith in the wounds of Christ crucified, the nails, the spear, the wounds, all preach unto faith a reconciled God, that God is in Christ, reconciling the world to himself: The Lords bowels are laid open by these wounds, so as throughout them we may see the tender bowels of his mercy, and so as through them, mercy flows from those bowels unto us:2—O my dove, that art in the clefts or holes of the rock! Some of the Ancients understood by these clefts of the rock, the wounds of Christ, in which the dove, the Church, lies and shelters her self: This is one work of Faith in the Sacrament, when it sees these clefts of the rock opened, like a dove to betake her self thereunto for shelter security, against all fears that wrath and guilt may put their Conscience to: Do any fears of wrath trouble thee? doth any guilt of Conscience disquiet thee? why now for thy comfort, behold the holes in the rock, where thou mayest shelter:3 Dwell now in the rock, and be like the dove that makes her nest in the sides of the holes mouth; see, and fully believe thy peace to be with God through Christ, and look upon him broken and wounded for thy transgressions: Faith thus actuated, cannot but send the soul from the Sacrament with much comfort.
1. Of his body broken and wounded:1