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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. Virtually in Christ: And this is from the day of Christs Passion, and in the virtue of his Satisfaction; yet this intendeth no more, but that Satisfaction is made, and Remission purchased by the Blood of Christ.
2. Virtually in Christ: And this is from the day of Christs Passion, and in the vertue of his Satisfaction; yet this intendeth no more, but that Satisfaction is made, and Remission purchased by the Blood of Christ.
3. Actually in himself: When a man hath the possession of Justification, immediately after his Union with the Lord Jesus Christ. Now this Justification considered as it is a state of favour, a Covenant state with God, which a man at his first believing is put into, is not reiterated, no more then a wife, after that first entrance into the relation, is frequently made a wife; yet the particular acts of Pardon, and Imputation of Christs Righteousness, are continually by God communicated unto the Believer. In this respect this actual Justification (or particular acts of pardon) hath its degrees of progression: The beginning thereof is laid in our first Union and Incorporation into Christ; the consummation of it is not till the Judge at the latter day hath solemnly pronounced the Sentence of final Absolution, and so set us in full possession of entire Remission: Between both these, there is a progressive work of Justification, by the constant actings of the Spirit, applying the blood of Christ by the hand of Faith, to the quiet and comfort of the soul: The first we may term initial Justification, the second progressive, the last perfective; the second is the fruit of the first, and the preludial assurance of the last: The first is wrought and sealed in the first Sacrament, the second is wrought and sealed in the second Sacrament; and both these branches of Sacramental Justification, are to us the preassurance of that complemental and perfective Justification, the sentence whereof putteth an end to all fears, changing our Faith and Hope into fruition and full possession.
3. Actually in himself: When a man hath the possession of Justification, immediately after his Ʋnion with the Lord Jesus Christ. Now this Justification considered as it is a state of favor, a Covenant state with God, which a man at his first believing is put into, is not reiterated, no more then a wife, after that first entrance into the relation, is frequently made a wife; yet the particular acts of Pardon, and Imputation of Christs Righteousness, are continually by God communicated unto the Believer. In this respect this actual Justification (or particular acts of pardon) hath its degrees of progression: The beginning thereof is laid in our first Union and Incorporation into Christ; the consummation of it is not till the Judge at the latter day hath solemnly pronounced the Sentence of final Absolution, and so set us in full possession of entire Remission: Between both these, there is a progressive work of Justification, by the constant actings of the Spirit, applying the blood of Christ by the hand of Faith, to the quiet and comfort of the soul: The first we may term initial Justification, the second progressive, the last perfective; the second is the fruit of the first, and the preludial assurance of the last: The first is wrought and sealed in the first Sacrament, the second is wrought and sealed in the second Sacrament; and both these branches of Sacramental Justification, are to us the preassurance of that complemental and perfective Justification, the sentence whereof putteth an end to all fears, changing our Faith and Hope into fruition and full possession.