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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. By believing what we read as undoubtedly true; thus David believed, Psal. 119.138.—151.—160.
3. By loving those counsels of God which we embrace by faith, for their purity, perfection, righteousness, and especially for the usefulness and wonderful benefit of them to our selves,1 in quickening the spirit, in giving wisdom, in converting the soul; these eminent excellencies of the Word, cannot choose but make these heavenly counsels precious in our eyes, and bring the soul to delight in them exceedingly.
3. By loving those counsels of God which we embrace by faith, for their purity, perfection, righteousness, and especially for the usefulness and wonderful benefit of them to our selves,1 in quickning the spirit, in giving wisdom, in converting the soul; these eminent excellencies of the Word, cannot choose but make these heavenly counsels precious in our eyes, and bring the soul to delight in them exceedingly.
- 1Psal. 119.63. & 119 98, 99. and 19 7.
5. To advise about, and to resolve upon the means to bring all into practice, especially for those duties which are laid before us in reading the word, or some part of the word, at such a particular time.