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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. Get we into our hearts an habit of more heavenly-mindedness, by much exercise, and intercourse, and acquaintance with God, by often contemplation, and forecast of the sweetness, glory, and eternity of those Mansions above, by reflectings on time past, how long thy soul was detained in the state of darkness, what bitterness and terrors it passed through in the pangs of its new birth, what relapses and desertions it hath been incident to, ever since that time to this; and being thus busied at home in our own hearts, we shall find our selves much more pregnant and plentiful in holy talk when we come abroad: Men for the most part speak most, and most willingly of those things they mind most; such provisions within, will make the tongue so ready, that it cannot be unseasonably idle.
3. Get we into our hearts an habit of more heavenly-mindedness, by much exercise, and intercourse, and acquaintance with God, by often contemplation, and forecast of the sweetness, glory, and eternity of those Mansions above, by reflectings on time past, how long thy soul was detained in the state of darkness, what bitterness and terrors it passed through in the pangs of its new birth, what relapses and desertions it hath been incident to, ever since that time to this; and being thus busied at home in our own hearts, we shall finde our selves much more pregnant and plentiful in holy talk when we come abroad: Men for the most part speak most, and most willingly of those things they minde most; such provisions within, will make the tongue so ready, that it cannot be unseasonably idle.
2. Watch we must over the tongue, that it be not sinfully exercised: And herein observe these Directions: —
1. Be dumb to all unsavoury communication; as, Lying, Swearing, Cursing, &c. O how do these sins wound the heart of Christ, and crucify again the Lord of glory?