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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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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. 4.1.1 and a Subject must attend reverently to the words of a Ruler, Job 29.21.2 yet none of them is our Potter as God is, Isa. 63.4.3 nor made us as he did, Psal. 100.3.4 nor consequently can challenge such respect from us as he may. 2. Because of the matter ⟨p. 344⟩or subject which the Scriptures handle, not only for the weight and importance of those high mysteries which are therein revealed,5 but for the great interest which we our selves have in those things,6 as containing our evidences and directions, which we and our children must observe, that we may do them.
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 childe must hear his father, Prov. 4.1.1 and a Subject must attend reverently to the words of a Ruler,