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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. Examine what thoughts are within, and which way runs the stream of our thoughts: The heart is an house of common resort, into which multitudes of thoughts, like so many guests, enter, and have free and open access; only if it be sanctified, it ordinarily distils holy, sweet, and useful Meditations out of all objects; as the Bee sucks honey out of every flower, and a good stomach sucks sweet and wholesome nourishment out of what it takes to it self: So doth a holy heart (so far as sanctified) convert and digest all into Spiritual and useful thoughts: But on the contrary, if it be wicked, then a world of vain, light, wanton, profane, and dissolute thoughts lodge there, and defile those rooms they lodge in; which made the Lord say to Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, 1wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved: How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
2. Examine what thoughts are within, and which way runs the stream of our thoughts: The heart is an house of common resort, into which multitudes of thoughts, like so many guests, enter, and have free and open access; onely if it be sanctified, it ordinarily distils holy, sweet, and useful Meditations out of all objects; as the Bee sucks honey out of every flower, and a good stomack sucks sweet and wholesom nourishment out of what it takes to it self: So doth a holy heart (so far as sanctified) convert and digest all into Spiritual and useful thoughts: But on the contrary, if it be wicked, then a world of vain, light, wanton, prophane, and dissolute thoughts lodge there, and defile those rooms they lodge in; which made the Lord say to Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, 1wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved: How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?