A75287:2713
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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SECT. 1. Of preparatives to Fasting.
Hitherto of duties ordinary; now follow the extraordinary, Fasting and Feasting: but because the Book is swollen bigger then I had purposed it, and that much of the extraordinary is contained in the ordinary duties, I shall therefore deliver in few words what I have to say of these duties.
HItherto of duties ordinary; now follow the extraordinary, Fasting and Feasting: but because the Book is swollen bigger then I had purposed it, and that much of the extraordinary is contained in the ordinary duties, I shall therefore deliver in few words what I have to say of these duties.
The first of these is Fasting, in which there is required something Antecedent. Concomitant. Subsequent.
1. The Antecedent, or preparation thereto, consists in these particulars:—