A75287:2159
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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SECT. 17. Of Examination after Sacrament, and the result, if not a good day.
Thus far of the Duties both before, and at the time of the Lords Supper: Now follows the Duties after Sacrament, and they are these,— Examination. Thankfulness. Obedience.
THus far of the Duties both before, and at the time of the Lords Supper: Now follows the Duties after Sacrament, and they are these,— Examination. Thankfulness. Obedience.
1. A man is seriously and faithfully to consider, after he hath been at the Lords Supper, what entertainment and welcome God hath given him? what comfort? what increasing of Faith and Grace? what quickening? what refreshment? what assurance? ⟨p. 302⟩what friendship, and what communion with Christ? what virtue he hath found to flow out of Christ into his soul?
1. A man is seriously and faithfully to consider, after he hath been at the Lords Supper, what entertainment and welcom God hath given him? what comfort? what encreasing of Faith and Grace? what quickning? what refreshment? what assurance? ⟨p. 302⟩what friendship, and what communion with Christ? what vertue he hath found to flow out of Christ into his soul?