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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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§ 4. Hitherto of the state of the Jews under Judges: Now under Kings till the Captivity.
1. As the Kingdom was united, in Books of Sam. where the Kings are by 1. Election, 1 Sam. 2. Succession, 2 Sam. 2. As it was divided, in the Books of Kings, under Solomon, 1 Kings. Other Kings, 2 Kings. 3. As it was in both states, more fully considered in the Books of Chronicles.
§. 5. First Book of Samuel. Jews state under Kings Elect.
1 Samuel contains 1. Time of change of Government in Samuel's days; whose birth is described Chap. 1, & part 2. 2. Occasion of the change; viz. wickedness of the Sons of Eli, which is Threatened. Chap. 2, 3. Punished. Chap. 4, 5, 6, 7. Samuel's Sons. Chap. 8 3. Story of the Kings. 1. Saul; of whose 1. Election, as he was Called. Chap. 9 Confirmed by 1. Inauguration. Chap. 10 2. Consent of the People. Chap. 11 3. Resignation of Samuel. Chap. 12 2. Rejection, with the true causes of it. Chap. 13, 14, 15 2. David his Prosperity, His vocation to his Kingdom. Chap. 16 Victory over Goliath. Chap. 17 Adversity, 1. His exile and banishment, 1. The cause of it. Chap. 18 2. The kinds of it, viz. In his own Country. Chap. 19, 20. Out of it, amongst Philistines. Chap. 21 Moabites. Chap. 22 2. His persecutions; wherein 1. The grievousness appears 1. By the diversity of places whither he fled. Chap. 23, to 27. 2. Flight to his enemies, with whom he lived. Chap. 27, to 30. 2. The end of them. Chap. 31