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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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This Title shows the occasion of the Psalm, rather then the ceremony thereof: The story is set down 1 Sam. 21.13. the sum is, David flying from Saul to Achish, King of Gath, who here is called Abimelech, for his safety, but being discovered by those about the King, and thereby in some danger, he changed his behaviour, mutavit gustum suum, some vultum, meaning that out of policy to free himself, he feigned a distemper, as if he had been mad before Abimelech, who after sent him away, and so he escaped the danger he feared, and thereupon makes this Psalm of Thanksgiving for his deliverance: And it is to be noted, touching the name of the King, that here he is called Abimelech, which was a common name to all the Kings of that Country, as Pharaoh was to the Egyptians, Caesar to the Romans; and in Samuel he is called Achish King of Gath, which was his more proper name.
This Title shews the occasion of the Psalm, rather then the ceremony thereof: The story is set down 1 Sam. 21.13. the sum is, David flying from Saul to Achish, King of Gath, who here is called Abimelech, for his safety, but being discovered by those about the King, and thereby in some danger, he changed his behavior, mutavit gustum suum, some vultum, meaning that out of policy to free himself, he fained a distemper, as if he had been mad before Abimelech, who after sent him away, and so he escaped the danger he feared, and thereupon makes this Psalm of Thanksgiving for his deliverance: And it is to be noted, touching the name of the King, that here he is called Abimelech, which was a common name to all the Kings of that Countrey, as Pharaoh was to the Egyptians, Caesar to the Romans; and in Samuel he is called Achish King of Gath, which was his more proper name.