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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. We may surcease, and refrain from the outward gross acts of such hateful villainies, and yet our inwards be still defiled with insatiable, sensual hankerings after them: For instance, Whereas the foul sin of Uncleanness doth actuate it self by Fornication, Adultery, Self-pollution, immoderate abuse of the Marriage-bed, Speculative wantonness, we may perhaps forbear the external acts of uncleanness, and yet lie and languish in the delightful revolvings of them in our mind, in adulteries of thought.
2. We may surcease, and refrain from the outward gross acts of such hateful villanies, and yet our inwards be still defiled with insatiable, sensual hankerings after them: For instance, Whereas the foul sin of Uncleanness doth actuate it self by Fornication, Adultery, Self-pollution, immoderate abuse of the Marriage-bed, Speculative wantonness, we may perhaps forbear the external acts of uncleanness, and yet lie and languish in the delightful revolvings of them in our minde, in adulteries of thought.
3. We may change the kind of our bosom-sin, in respect of the matter, form, object, every way; and yet upon the matter it self, it is but the exchange of one foul fiend for another: For instance, Wantonness may be our sweet sin in youth, and Worldliness in old age; Hypocrisy may reign at one time, Apostasy at another; Furious Zeal for one while, Profane Irreligiousness for another.
3. We may change the kinde of our bosom-sin, in respect of the matter, form, object, every way; and yet upon the matter it self, it is but the exchange of one foul fiend for another: For instance, Wantonness may be our sweet sin in youth, and Worldliness in old age; Hypocrisie may reign at one time, Apostacy at another; Furious Zeal for one while, Prophane Irreligiousness for another.