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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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SECT. I. Of the Nature of Experiences.
Experience (say some) is a knowledge and discovery of something by sense not evident in it self, but manifested by some event or effect. This description contains both Natural and Spiritual Experience; but my purpose is to speak only of the latter, and in that respect I look strictly at Experiences, as Real proofs of Scripture truths. When I mark how true every part of Gods Word is, how all the Doctrines, Threatenings and Promises contained therein, are daily verified in others, and in my own self, and so improve, or make use of them to my own Spiritual advantage, this I call Experience.
EXperience (say some) is a knowledge and discovery of something by sence not evident in it self, but manifested by some event or effect. This description contains both Natural and Spiritual Experience; but my purpose is to speak onely of the latter, and in that respect I look strictly at Experiences, as Real proofs of Scripture truths. When I mark how true every part of Gods Word is, how all the Doctrines, Threatnings and Promises contained therein, are daily verified in others, and in my own self, and so improve, or make use of them to my own Spiritual advantage, this I call Experience.