A75287:2387
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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15. For all that belong to Gods election, though uncalled as yet.
1Look upon Zion the City of our solemnities.—Call home the Jews; thou hast revealed that they shall be grafted in again, and thou art able to graft them in again:2—Bring in the Gentiles; thou had said, I will lift up my hands to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people,3 and they shall bring their sons in their arms, and their daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders:—Convert profane and ignorant Christians,4 search thy sheep, and seek them out,— that there may be one fold, and one shepherd:—See Isa. 49.16, 17. A• 1.—5.15. Ezek. 34.12, 13. Isaiah 2.2. and 60.3, 5, 8. and 54.1, 2. and 60.18, 19