A75287:2464
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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§. 4. Numbers, of Laws for most part Political, occasioned by the mustering of the people for their journey to Canaan.
Numbers. This story contains 1. Their preparation to the journey; wherein 1. Their mustering or numbering, which was either Civil, of the people that were 1. Numbered. Chap. 1 2. Ordered. Chap. 2 Sacred, of the Priests that were 1. Numbered. Chap. 3 2. Ordered. Chap. 4 2. Laws given them, which are either Common to all, about sanctity in things Necessary. Chap. 5 Voluntary. Chap. 6 Particular for the 1. Laity; viz. The Tribes. Chap. 7 2. Clergy; viz. The Priests & Levites. Chap. 8 3. Manner of their 1. Sanctification and order. Chap. 9 2. Progress or journey. Chap. 10 2. Their journeys, which are distinguished by a story of eight murmurings of the people: 1. For the tediousness of their journey. Chap. 11 2. For loathsomeness of the Manna. 3. For the emulation of Miriam and Aaron against Moses. Chap. 12 4. For the sedition of the Spies who Murmured. Chap. 13 were plagued. Chap. 14 reconciled. Chap. 15 5. For the Conspiracy of the three Levites, Corah, Dathan and Abiram. Chap. 16 6. For the indignation of the people at the former judgements; wherein Their murmuring. Chap. 17 Their reconciling Persons. Chap. 18 Manner. Chap. 19 7. For want of water. Chap. 20 8. For wearisomeness of the way. Chap. 21 3. Their stations or abode when they came near to Canaan, which hath two stories that concern ⟨p. 354⟩1. The People who were to inherit, considered as 1. Conquerors of their Enemies. Chap. 22. 2. Encountered by Magic Arts, Balaam. Chap. 22, 23, 24. 3. Disordered with Idolatry and fornication. Chap. 25 4. Reconciled, and again mustered. Chap. 26 5. Furnished with a new Prince. Chap. 27 6. Instructed about sacred things Necessary. Chap. 28, 29. Voluntary. Chap. 30 2. The Inheritance it self, considered 1. In a part of it 1. Conquered. Chap. 31 2. Disposed. Chap. 32 Where by a digression their journeys are reckoned all together. Chap. 33 2. The whole, wherein are set down 1. The Bounds or Division of the Land. Chap. 34 2. The Law, concerning the inheritance of the Priests. Chap. 35 People. Chap. 36