A75287:2275
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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2. At that time when thou hast most need, and when thy heart is most fitted for mercy (l.) when thy heart is most subdued, and thy lusts mortified, for then thou art fittest to relish his goodness alone, and not to be drawn away with the carnal sweetness that is in the thing;1 Thou wilt prepare thine heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear, thou wilt prepare thine heart in taking it off from the thing desired, in making it quieted and contented with God in the thing, and then thou wilt hear] this is the fittest time.
3. From the effects upon thy heart that prayest: As —
1. If the thing granted by thy prayers, draw thy heart more near unto God: Things granted out of ordinary providence only, do increase our lusts, and are snares to us; but if thou findest Gods dealings with thee, to be a kindly motive to cause thee to mourn for sin, and to be a restraint against sin, it is a sign it was a fruit of thy prayer:1 Away from me ye workers of iniquity (saith David) God hath heard the voice of my weeping; or,
1. If the thing granted by thy prayers, draw thy heart more near unto God: Things granted out of ordinary providence onely, do increase our lusts, and are snares to us; but if thou findest Gods dealings with thee, to be a kindely motive to cause thee to mourn for sin, and to be a restraint against sin, it is a sign it was a fruit of thy prayer: