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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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9. When holy love is more increased: I love the Lord, 1because he hath heard my voice and my supplication: We cannot taste of the Lord, but we must have an hearty love to the Lord: Will you hear the voice of Experience? this 'tis, O taste, 2and see how good the Lord is; and then, O stay me with flagons, ⟨p. 92⟩and comfort me with Apples, for I am sick of love; such a one truly affects Christ, and all that follow Christ; such a one loves the person of Christ, without his privileges; a naked Christ, as well as a Christ clothed with all his robes, in all his glory and resplendent beauty; Christ in a Prison, as well as Christ in a Throne: Thus John (after all his Experiences of Christs love to him) could love Christ on the cross, when other forsook him, as well as in the Temple, when he was working miracles.
9. When holy love is more encreased: I love the Lord, 1because he hath heard my voyce and my supplication: We cannot taste of the Lord, but we must have an hearty love to the Lord: Will you hear the voyce of Experience? this 'tis, O taste, 2and see how good the Lord is; and then, O stay me with flaggons, ⟨p. 92⟩and comfort me with Apples, for I am sick of love; such a one truly affects Christ, and all that follow Christ; such a one loves the person of Christ, without his priviledges; a naked Christ, as well as a Christ cloathed with all his robes, in all his glory and resplendent beauty; Christ in a Prison, as well as Christ in a Throne: Thus John (after all his Experiences of Christs love to him) could love Christ on the cross, when other forsook him, as well as in the Temple, when he was working miracles.