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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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Concerning the first; in public prayer we are to follow the custom of the Church wherein we live, if it be without scandal and superstition: In private prayer we may take our liberty, so that our gesture be correspondent to the affections and dispositions of the soul.—In Scripture we read of these several gestures: 1. Standing, which is a token of reverence and service, 2 Kings 5.25. 1 Sam. 16.21. 1 Kings 10.8. Job 29.7, 8. Gen. 18.22. 2 Cor. 20.5. Psal. 134.1. Luke 18.13. Mark 11.25. 2. Kneeling, which is a token of our humility and earnestness in prayer, Psal. 95.6. 2 Chro. 6.13. Dan. 6.10. Acts 7.60. and 9.40. and 20.36. Luke 22.41. 3. Prostration, or falling on the ground, or falling on the face, a gesture of the greatest humiliation, though not used amongst us in these parts of the world, Numb. 16.22. Josh. 5.14. Ezek. 9.8