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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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3. After prayer: This will appear in several particulars; as—
1. When God quiets and calms the heart after prayer, by speaking something to the heart, though what is spoken be not always discerned; as when you see an earnest or importunate suitor going in to a great man, exceeding anxious, but coming out very cheerful, contented, and quiet in spirit, you would conceive that certainly something hath been said to him, which gave him encouragement: So when thou goest to God, and hast been importunate in a business, and thy desires were exceedingly up for it, and then thou risest up with thy mind, calmed and satisfied, and thou feelest the anxiousness, the solicitude of thy heart, about the thing taken off and dispelled; this is a good sign that God hath heard, and will return answer to the full: When Hanna out of much bitterness, and with strong desires, ⟨p. 319⟩had poured her soul out unto the Lord, it is said,1 That she looked no more sad; And then God gave her a son, a son of her desires.
1. When God quiets and calms the heart after prayer, by speaking something to the heart, though what is spoken be not always discerned; as when you see an earnest or importunate suitor going in to a great man, exceeding anxious, but coming out very chearful, contented, and quiet in spirit, you would conceive that certainly something hath been said to him, which gave him incouragement: So when thou goest to God, and hast been importunate in a business, and thy desires were exceedingly up for it, and then thou risest up with thy minde, calmed and satisfied, and thou feelst the anxiousness, the solicitude of thy heart, about the thing taken off and dispelled; this is a good sign that God hath heard, and will return answer to the full: When Hanna out of much bitterness, and with strong desires, ⟨p. 319⟩