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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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1647.
Decem. 27. This day one understood of the slanders, and consultations and threat• of some eminent persons against him; at which time he fell upon reading, and the Lord seemed to speak to him out of Psal. 31.
1648.
Jan. 24. I had a grieved and troubled heart, by reason of some opposition of wicked people; at night I read a feeling passage of Mr. Rogers on Judges 13. thus, — I have often thought it Gods mercy, to keep the knowledge of such discouragements from them that are to enter into the Ministry, lest they should be deterred wholly from it, till by experience they be armed against it.
Jan. 24. I had a grieved and troubled heart, by reason of some opposition of wicked people; at night I read a feeling passage of Mr. Rogers on Judges 13. thus, — I have often thought it Gods mercy, to keep the knowledge of such discouragements from them that are to enter into the Ministery, lest they should be deterred wholly from it, till by experience they be armed against it.