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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. The inarticulate, is that which is uttered in sighing, groaning and weeping: Lord, all my desire is before thee; 1and my groaning is not hid from thee, saith David; and Hezekiah professeth, That he did chatter like a crane or a swallow, and did mourn like a dove; 2And the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings, which cannot be uttered.
2. The articulate voice, is the external speech it self, whereby the prayer is expressed, wherein three things are considerable, Quantity, Quality. Form.
2. The articulate voyce, is the external speech it self, whereby the prayer is expressed, wherein three things are considerable, Quantity, Quality. Form.
1. For Quantity, we must not affect prolixity, as if for multitude of words we looked to be heard: When ye pray, 1use not vain repetition, as the heathen do: The Heathen thought, that their gods did not always hear, as being otherwise employed (so Elijah told Baals Priests) and therefore they used to repeat the same things often, that if they did not hear them at one time, they might hear them at another time; thus Christians must not pray, they must not lengthen their prayers, as conceiving that either God hears not, or that he will hear for the lengths sake; but on the other side, where is variety of good matter, uttered with the attention of mind, and vigour of affection, there the longer we continue in prayer, the better it is.