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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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SECT. 4. Of the necessary Duties in Reading of the Scriptures.
The duty now fallen upon, it is good for our profiting to observe these particulars:—
THe duty now fallen upon, it is good for our profiting to observe these particulars:—
1. That (in the beginning of our reading the Bible, or of each book in the Bible) we view and read over some Analytical Table, that so we better mark the drift and scope of the holy Ghost, and that we may with singular ease and delight remember the same: To that purpose I have added such a Table towards the end of this Chapter, which may well serve for the proposed ends.
2. That we attend diligently to what we read: Now there is good reason for this attention, 1. Because of the authority and wisdom of him that speaks; A child must hear his father, Prov. 4.1