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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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The Title of this Psalm is diversly given, some thus, To the chief Musician, pro torcularibus, for wine-dressers; as if it was a prayer for fruitfulness of that fruit, &c. Others, that it was composed by David in the City of Gath, when he was banished; Others, that that kind of instrument was invented and used there: That which is most probable and agreeable with the Scripture, is, That Gittith was an instrument which Jeduthim and his posterity, being chief of the third Classis, or Order of Musicians, used to play upon, the custody whereof was committed to Obed-Edom the Gittite, and his family, that was of the posterity of Jeduthim; who for himself and his brethren, for his time, ministered and used them in the holy service, 1 Chron. 16.37, 38.
The Title of this Psalm is diversly given, some thus, To the chief Musitian, pro torcularibus, for wine-dressers; as if it was a prayer for fruitfulness of that fruit, &c. Others, that it was composed by David in the City of Gath, when he was banished; Others, that that kinde of instrument was invented and used there: That which is most probable and agreeable with the Scripture, is, That Gittith was an instrument which Jeduthim and his posterity, being chief of the third Classis, or Order of Musitians, used to play upon, the custody whereof was committed to Obed-Edom the Gittite, and his family, that was of the posterity of Jeduthim; who for himself and his brethren, for his time, ministred and used them in the holy service,