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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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1. There is no danger of surfeiting upon too much; the oftener we reckon with our souls, the fewer things we shall have to reckon for every time; and the fewer things there be, the more readily will they be called to mind, and more exactly be scanned: This made Bernard 1say of this work, If we will do it as often as we need, we must do it always.
1. There is no danger of surfetting upon too much; the oftner we reckon with our souls, the fewer things we shall have to reckon for every time; and the fewer things there be, the more readily will they be called to minde, and more exactly be scanned: This made Bernard 1say of this work, If we will do it as often as we need, we must do it always.
- 1Bern. in Cant. Serm. 58. fin.
2. The time that learned and devout men commend to us, is once every day: So Chrysostom, 1Let this account be kept every day; — Have a little book in thy Conscience, and write therein thy daily transgressions; and when thou layest thee down on thy bed, then bring forth thy book, and take an account of thy sins.
- 1Chris. Exp. in Psal. 4.