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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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3. Settle we in our selves a purpose of heart, to forbear it for time to come: In undertaking of which purpose, it will be expedient to set our selves some short space of time, as for a day or a month, &c. and when the prefixed time is come, we should then question our selves, How well we have performed? or how, or wherein we have failed? and then begin a new purpose.
3. Settle we in our selves a purpose of heart, to forbear it for time to come: In undertaking of which purpose, it will be expedient to set our selves some short space of time, as for a day or a moneth, &c. and when the prefixed time is come, we should then question our selves, How well we have performed? or how, or wherein we have failed? and then begin a new purpose.
4. Be we ever jealous of our selves, and of our infirmity and proneness to this sin. Now we have two grounds of this jealousy: 1. Lest we be deceived about it. 2. Lest we be overtaken with it.
4. Be we ever jealous of our selves, and of our infirmity and proneness to this sin. Now we have two grounds of this jealousie: 1. Lest we be deceived about it. 2. Lest we be overtaken with it.
1. We may be deceived, in supposing that we are utterly divorced, and quite delivered from this bosom-sin, when it is nothing so; as thus:—