A75287:2637
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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The Title of this Psalm may be understood by that which is said in the Title of the fourth Psalm, differing in nothing but in the name of the instrument, which was one of those that were hollow, and sounded by breath, as the Hebrew word shows, as afore, &c. Some of the Hebrew Writers say, It was a Musical instrument, whose sound was like the buzzing of Bees, or in regard of the multitude of them, which are like an army for number, and for that the master of that Quire was appointed to pray for all Israel, as for all the Armies of the Israelites, against the Armies of the enemies, that came against them in multitude and noise like a swarm of Bees; thereupon he gives the Title, Super exercitus Psalmus Davidis, &c. but unproperly, the Title having no conformity with the Substance of the Psalm, nor is it approved by our Interpreters, &c. but the first followed.
The Title of this Psalm may be understood by that which is said in the Title of the fourth Psalm, differing in nothing but in the name of the instrument, which was one of those that were hollow, and sounded by breath, as the Hebrew word shews, as afore, &c. Some of the Hebrew Writers say, It was a Musical instrument, whose sound was like the buzzing of Bees, or in regard of the multitude of them, which are like an army for number, and for that the master of that Quire was appointed to pray for all Israel, as for all the Armies of the Israelites, against the Armies of the enemies, that came against them in multitude and noise like a swarm of Bees; thereupon he gives the Title, Super exercitus Psalmus Davidis, &c. but unproperly, the Title having no conformity with the Substance of the Psalm, nor is it approved by our Interpreters, &c. but the first followed.