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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The meaning is this, The Kingly Prophet David composed this Psalm, and delivered it to be sung and played in the Congregation, to him that was the chief Overseer, Master, and set over the rest of that music or consort, upon the instrument called Niginoth, which sounded by playing on with the hand: To understand this the better, we may observe, that some instruments used in the Jewish Temple, were [Greek or Hebrew] windy, such as sounded by breath, and motion of the fingers; as Organs, that are blown with bellows, and all hollow instruments, as Trumpets, Rams horns, Cornets, &c. such as the Priests and Levites used in the holy Ordinances, from the Hebrew word Nechiloth, which signifies bored through or hollow.
The meaning is this, The Kingly Prophet David composed this Psalm, and delivered it to be sung and played in the Congregation, to him that was the chief Overseer, Master, and set over the rest of that musick or consort, upon the instrument called Niginoth, which sounded by playing on with the hand: To understand this the better, we may observe, that some instruments used in the Jewish Temple, were 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 windy, such as sounded by breath, and motion of the fingers; as Organs, that are blown with bellows, and all hollow instruments, as Trumpets, Rams horns, Cornets, &c. such as the Priests and Levites used in the holy Ordinances, from the Hebrew word Nechiloth, which signifies bored through or hollow.