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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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8. Endeavour we to preserve and keep up lively, holy, and Spiritual affections, and suffer them not to cool; or if we have grown remiss, endeavour to recover those affections again: Thoughts and affections are mutual causes of each other; Whilst I mused, the fire burned, said David: and again,1 How love I thy Law? It is my meditation day and night. First,2 his thoughts were the bellows that kindled and inflamed his affections: And secondly, his affections inflamed, made his thoughts to boil, and to meditate on Gods Law day and night. Hence it is that men newly converted to God, having new and strong affections, can with more pleasure think of God then any else can.
8. Endeavor we to preserve and keep up lively, holy, and Spiritual affections, and suffer them not to cool; or if we have grown remiss, endeavor to recover those affections again: Thoughts and affections are mutual causes of each other; Whilest I mused, the fire burned, said David: and again,1 How love I thy Law? It is my meditation day and night. First,2 his thoughts were the bellows that kindled and inflamed his affections: And secondly, his affections inflamed, made his thoughts to boyl, and to meditate on Gods Law day and night. Hence it is that men newly converted to God, having new and strong affections, can with more pleasure think of God then any else can.