A75287:2646
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.
Much-Labben was the beginning of a tune, after which this Psalm was to be sung by the Quire, which contains a Thanksgiving for his victory, and for the death of Goliath, the Champion of the Philistines against Israel; therefore some read the Title thus, Magistro Symphoniae de morte illius bellatoris (i.) Goliath, &c. which typically is applied to Christ, as a song of joy of the Church and Saints of God, for Christs triumphant victory over ⟨p. 388⟩the Tyranny of Satan, and his Kingdom of sin and death: Some divide the words, and make Much-Labben two distinct words, and make the sense to be this, Victori, super mortem filii, Psalmus David, as if David had made it for the death of his son, as Selden; which sense Austin mislikes, and yields his reasons for the former, arguing from the substance of the Psalm, in that he mourned, and rejoiced not for his sons death, therefore the first sense is best.
Muth-Labben was the beginning of a tune, after which this Psalm was to be sung by the Quire, which contains a Thanksgiving for his victory, and for the death of Goliah, the Champion of the Philistines against Israel; therefore some read the Title thus, Magistro Symphoniae de morte illius bellatoris (i.) Goliah, &c. which typically is applyed to Christ, as a song of joy of the Church and Saints of God, for Christs triumphant victory over