A75287:2285
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 by these observations: As—
VVE may resolve this case by these observations: As—
1. If thy heart did sympathize and accord in the same holy affection with those others in praying, then it is certain thy ⟨p. 326⟩voice hath helped to carry it:1 If two of you shall agree on earth, (saith Christ) as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven: If two of you shall agree (the word is [Greek or Hebrew]) q.d. if you harmonially agree to play the same tune (for prayers are music in Gods ears,2 and so called melody to God) if you agree not only in the thing prayed for, but in your affections, for it is the affections that makes the consort and melody: If the same holy affections were touched and struck by Gods Spirit in thy heart, that was in others, then didst thou help to make up the consort, and without thee it had been imperfect; yea, without thee the thing might not have been done, for God sometimes stands upon such a number of voices (as when he named ten persons in Sodom) and so one voice may cast it.
1. If thy heart did sympathize and accord in the same holy affection with those others in praying, then it is certain thy ⟨p. 326⟩voyce hath helped to carry it:1 If two of you shall agree on earth, (saith Christ) as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven: If two of you shall agree (the word is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉) q.d. if you harmonially agree to play the same tune (for prayers are musick in Gods ears,