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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. Before prayer: When God prepares the heart to pray, when he pours upon a man a Spirit of Grace and Supplication, a praying disposition; when he puts in motives, suggests arguments and pleas unto God, as materials for prayer; all which ⟨p. 318⟩you shall find to come in readily, and of themselves; and that likewise with a quickening heat, and enlargement of affections, with a lingering, and longing, and restlessness of spirit, to pour out the soul unto God: This is a sign that God lends his ear, and will return answers: Thou wilt prepare their heart; thou wilt cause thine ear to hear; 1q. d. Thou fashionest the heart, and composest it into a praying frame, and that is a sign, Lord, that thou meanest to hear.
1. Before prayer: When God prepares the heart to pray, when he pours upon a man a Spirit of Grace and Supplication, a praying disposition; when he puts in motives, suggests arguments and pleas unto God, as materials for prayer; all which ⟨p. 318⟩you shall finde to come in readily, and of themselves; and that likewise with a quickning heat, and inlargement of affections, with a lingring, and longing, and restlesness of spirit, to pour out the soul unto God: This is a sign that God lends his ear, and will return answers: Thou wilt prepare their heart; thou wilt cause thine ear to hear; 1q. d. Thou fashionest the heart, and composest it into a praying frame, and that is a sign, Lord, that thou meanest to hear.