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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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2. In improving Experiences, beware how we argue from one Experience to another: Judgements threatened, are not always inflicted after one and the same manner; God meets with the wicked sometimes in this life, and sometimes he reserves their plagues for another. In like manner the gracious Providences of God are not always dispensed after one and the same manner; indeed David could say,1 The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the Lyon, and out of the paw of the Bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine; and Paul could say, I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lyon, and the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work: 2and so we may say, that God many times hath delivered us, and doth deliver us, and therefore that he will deliver us still: But this manner of arguing, as it is demonstrative, so it hath some limitations, which we must carefully take notice of; as
2. In improving Experiences, beware how we argue from one Experience to another: Judgements threatned, are not always inflicted after one and the same maner; God meets with the wicked sometimes in this life, and sometimes he reserves their plagues for another. In like maner the gracious Providences of God are not always dispensed after one and the same maner; indeed David could say,1 The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the Lyon, and out of the paw of the Bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine; and Paul could say, I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lyon, and the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work: 2and so we may say, that God many times hath delivered us, and doth deliver us, and therefore that he will deliver us still: But this maner of arguing, as it is demonstrative, so it hath some limitations, which we must carefully take notice of; as