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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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7. When the peoples edification is endeavoured: Have we tasted of the goodness of God? let us then provoke others to believe, and to serve the Lord together with us; this is one end of Experience, and that use we should make of it towards others. When Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, he worshipped, and turned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise, 1for the Lord hath delivered the host of Midian into your hands.
7. When the peoples edification is endeavored: Have we tasted of the goodness of God? let us then provoke others to believe, and to serve the Lord together with us; this is one end of Experience, and that use we should make of it towards others. When Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, he worshipped, and turned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise, 1for the Lord hath delivered the host of Midian into your hands.
8. When a mans own self is more abased: Do we live the life of grace and true holiness? this will teach us to deny our selves wholly: If any man (saith Christ) will come after me, 1let him deny himself; q. d. If any man will come after me in the knowledge of my Will, in the belief of my Promises, in the love of my Truth, in the obedience of my Precepts, let him deny himself, let him lay aside his own wisdom, his own will, his own imagination, his own affections, his own ends, as base and unworthy marks to be aimed at: Let him deny himself; whatsoever is of himself, or belonging to himself, as a corrupt and carnal man; let him go out of himself, that he may come to me; let him empty himself of himself, that he may be capable of me, that I may rule and reign in him, and that he may wholly subject himself to me and my service: This the Apostle stiles, A living, not unto our selves, but unto him that dyed for us; he alone understands,