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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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Octob. 12. This day I was told by a godly Minister Mr. C. that Mr. B. residing in Glasgow, and lighting by Providence on my Book of the First and Last things, it was a means (as he acknowledged) of his Conversion; at this time he was ordained Minister by the L. Classis, and reported to be a holy and able man. Glory and praise to thee, O my Lord and my God.
Octob. 12. This day I was told by a godly Minister Mr. C. that Mr. B. residing in Glasco, and lighting by Providence on my Book of the First and Last things, it was a means (as he acknowledged) of his Conversion; at this time he was ordained Minister by the L. Classis, and reported to be a holy and able man. Glory and praise to thee, O my Lord and my God.
Octob. 15. A Letter full of Invectives, without any Name subscribed, was in the night cast into my house: I guess the man, but I desire to look up to God, to search my own heart, and to bind the Reproofs as a Crown unto my head; be the Author who he will, I much matter not, Psal. 27.11, 12, 13, 14.
Octob. 15. A Letter full of Invectives, without any Name subscribed, was in the night cast into my house: I guess the man, but I desire to look up to God, to search my own heart, and to binde the Reproofs as a Crown unto my head; be the Author who he will, I much matter not, Psal. 27.11, 12, 13, 14.
Novemb. 29. This night I was told that Mistress E. D. was upon my Prayer the last Fast troubled in Conscience; and that since she had much talked of me, and desired to see me, but her Companion concealing it, she now apprehended the time was past, and utterly despaired: I sent to her, and at her first entrance into my Chamber, she cried, O that face! I dare not look on it! Shall such a lost creature as I look upon thee? — Had I seen thee yesternight, I might have been saved; but now I am lost time is past; — O the terrors of the Lord are upon me, &c. yet after she was pleased to hear me pray: And then I advised her, To search out her sin — To submit to the Lord, to wonder at Gods mercy, that yet she lived, and was on this side Hell; — To acknowledge Gods Justice; — To bear the indignation of the Lord; — Not to quarrel with the Lord; — Not to limit him to this or that time; — To learn Eli's and David's lesson, Here I am, let him do with me as seemeth him good in his own eyes. To this she