A75287:2249
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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WE may resolve this case, if 1. we observe these particulars:
VVE may resolve this case, if 1. we observe these particulars:
1. Whether thy prayer was framed in a right manner? didst thou not pray absolutely for such blessings, as were never absolutely promised? if so, no wonder thy prayer is denied; or didst thou pray conditionally (as Christ prayed, If it be possible, &c.) then thy prayer may be heard, and yet the things denied; ⟨p. 320⟩for otherwise Christ had not been heard, when yet the text says, He was heard in that he feared.1
1. Whether thy prayer was framed in a right maner? didst thou not pray absolutely for such blessings, as were never absolutely promised? if so, no wonder thy prayer is denied; or didst thou pray conditionally (as Christ prayed, If it be possible, &c.) then thy prayer may be heard, and yet the things denyed; ⟨p. 320⟩for otherwise Christ had not been heard, when yet the text says, He was heard in that he feared.1
- 1Heb 5.7.
2. Whether there be not a reservation in that denial, for some greater mercy, whereof that denial was the foundation? if we had many of our desires, we should be undone: If the child had lived for which David so earnestly prayed, he would but have been a living monument of his own shame; God therefore denied his prayer, but after he gave him a Solomon.