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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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2. That which follows after it, is a practice of such Rules as may back our Examination, and make it more effectual to us: I shall mention only these three Rules:
2. That which follows after it, is a practice of such Rules as may back our Examination, and make it more effe•tual to us: I shall mention onely these three Rules:
1. That after we have examined, we then compare our present, with our former estate, and consider whether we have increased or decayed in grace.
1. That after we have examined, we then compare our present, with our former estate, and consider whether we have encreased or decayed in grace.
2. That if we have profited in grace, we then consider by what means we have profited, that so we may make more constant use of such means; or if we have decayed in grace, we ⟨p. 57⟩then observe by what temptations we were overcome, that so our former errors may make us more wary, and more resolute against them for the future.