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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. 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:1 Away from me ye workers of iniquity (saith David) God hath heard the voyce of my weeping; or,
2. If thou findest Gods dealings with thee, to be a kindly motive, to cause thee to rejoice in God, more then in the thing obtained, it is a sign it was a fruit of thy prayer. Hanna blessing God for her child,1