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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. By stirring up in our selves a Spiritual appetite to the word,1 such as Job found in himself, who esteemed the words of his mouth more then his necessary food; and David in himself, who opened his mouth, and panted, and longed for his Commandments; which appetite ariseth both from the sense of our emptiness (for the full soul loathes the honey comb) and from the fitness of the word to supply unto us whatsoever we want and hunger after,2 as being the food of our souls.
3. By stirring up in our selves a Spiritual appetite to the word,1 such as Job found in himself, who esteemed the words of his mouth more then his necessary food; and David in himself, who opened his mouth, and panted, and longed for his Commandments; which appetite ariseth both from the sense of our emptiness (for the full soul loaths the honey comb) and from the fitness of the word to supply unto us whatsoever we want and hunger after,2 as being the food of our souls.
4. By awaking our faith; and to this purpose we must consider, that it is the word of him that speaketh Righteousness, ⟨p. 343⟩