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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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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.
July 1. or thereabouts, one gave me a Relation of her sad desertion, thus— That one night as she sate by the fire, she thought she saw the ground open, and a gulf of fire appearing; whereupon she cried, I am damned, I am damned: If at any time she saw any fire, she supposed that she must go into it, and that the Devils would fetch her into it. Once wringing her hand•, she cried ou, O what was I born into the world for? one standing by, answered, To glorify God; to whom she replied, You say true, for God shall be glorified in my damnation: If any offered to pray, or to read, she usually cried out, It was too late to pray for her; and they should not read that pure Word of God by her, for it belonged not to her. At last God appeared, and she felt marvellous comforts.