A75287:2741
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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3. From matrimonial Benevolence, from that society which God hath sanctified by his word to married persons, 1 Cor. 7.5. Joel 2.16.
4. From bodily labours and worldly business, Lev. 16.29, 31.— 23.32. Joel 1.14.—2.15.
4. From bodily labors and worldly business, Lev. 16.29, 31.— 23.32. Joel 1.14.—2.15.
5. From food wholly; and yet this total abstinence from meat and drink is not so strictly required, but that they whose health cannot bear it, may in case of true necessity, take some little refreshing, lest otherwise they hazard or hurt their health, and unfit themselves for the spiritual exercise and duty; indeed we have no example of this case propounded in Scripture, yet we have a sufficient ground for it, Hosea 6.6. Mat. 12.7.