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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. 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?
Now if upon such examination, a man have found no joy, no comfort, no enlargement, no communion with, nor answer from Christ; but on the contrary, his heart full of deadness, hardness, dullness, unfruitfulness, then two things are to be done:—
Now if upon such examination, a man have found no joy, no comfort, no enlargement, no communion with, nor answer from Christ; but on the contrary, his heart full of deadness, hardness, dulness, unfruitfulness, then two things are to be done:—
1. Let such a one suspect himself, that some miscarriage hath been in him, either in his preparation to, or in his performance of the Duty; and let him labour. to find out where the fail was; what it was that hindered the efficacy of that Blessed Sacrament: and having found out what hindered, let him judge himself for it, and be seriously humbled therefore: If he can but do thus, he needs not be overmuch dismayed, because this is one fruit of the life of Christ, which was undoubtedly received in the Sacrament; if he have not that which he would have, yet he hath that which was worth the going for: Let him construe this Humiliation as a fruit of going to the Sacrament, and be thankful for that.