A75287:2146
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. Faith casts its eye on the promise, for the conveyance of Christ, and of Grace from Christ: Faith works by virtue of the promise; where there is no promise, there can be no faith, and therefore faith discovers the promise, That of his fullness we shall receive grace for grace; 1That his body is given for us; That his blood is shed for us, and for many, for the remission of sins: Hence the schools admit of a double fullness (i.) Of abundance and redundance: The promise speaks not only of the fullness of abundance in Christ, whereby he is sufficiently full in himself, but also of a fullness of redundance, by which he overflows and fills all his Saints: He is the well-head or fountain, which is not only full it self, but springs and flows over to the filling of the streams below it.
2. Faith casts its eye on the promise, for the conveyance of Christ, and of Grace from Christ: Faith works by vertue of the promise; where there is no promise, there can be no faith, and therefore faith discovers the promise, That of his fulness we shall receive grace for grace; 1That his body is given for us; That his blood is shed for us, and for many, for the remission of sins: Hence the schools admit of a double fulness (i.) Of abundance and redundance: The promise speaks not onely of the fulness of abundance in Christ, whereby he is sufficiently full in himself, but also of a fulness of redundance, by which he overflows and fills all his Saints: He is the well-head or fountain, which is not onely full it self, but springs and flows over to the filling of the streams below it.