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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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11. When joys of the Spirit are raised and stirred up: Who is he that hath not been delivered out of some miserable exigents? and if we have,1 we may well say with David, Thou hast showed me great troubles and adversities, but thou wilt return and receive me, and wilt come again, and take me up from the depth of the earth, and comfort me: Former comforts are as a bill obligatory under Gods hand, to assure us that he will not forsake us:2 Whom God loves, he loves unto the end—Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
11. When joys of the Spirit are raised and stirred up: Who is he that hath not been delivered out of some miserable exigents? and if we have,1 we may well say with David, Thou hast shewed me great troubles and adversities, but thou wilt return and receive me, and wilt come again, and take me up from the depth of the earth, and comfort me: Former comforts are as a bill obligatory under Gods hand, to assure us that he will not forsake us:2 Whom God loves, he loves unto the end—Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoyce.