A75287:2652
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Some take Aijeleth Shahar, to be the name of some common song, or to be the beginning of some ordinary tune, according to which this Psalm was sung; that's the Geneva note, which may be so: But Tremellius Lyra, and divers, take it to be otherwise, and better (as I think) who interpret those Hebrew words, in, or at the dawning of the day, as you would say, between break of the day and Sun-rising; because at that time, the comfortable light or shine of the day begins to break forth.
The meaning of the Title being this, David made this Psalm, and appointed it to be sung in the Church by the Priests and Levites every morning, so soon as the day brake out; at which time it was by the Law and Custom their duty to exercise their Ministry in the Quire, and to sing Psalms, 1 Chron. 9.33. which service the Lord would have to be done by the Church, that their faith and expectation of Christ, might daily be renewed and had in memory; the prophecy of whose Kingdom and sufferings are represented in this Psalm, looking (as the day springs from on high) that Christ should visit them.