A75287:62
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. By this a sinner is righteous before the Judgement Seat of ⟨p. 4⟩God:1 It is God that justifies, who shall condemn? not Christ, he is our Advocate; not Sin, for Christ was made sin for us; not the Law, for Christ hath fulfilled the Law for us; not Satan, for God is his Judge, and if he have acquitted us, what can the Jailer do?
2. By this a sinner is righteous before the Judgement Seat of ⟨p. 4⟩God:1 It is God that justifies, who shall condemn? not Christ, he is our Advocate; not Sin, for Christ was made sin for us; not the Law, for Christ hath fulfilled the Law for us; not Satan, for God is his Judge, and if he have acquitted us, what can the Jaylor do?
3. By this we have perfect Righteousness: we are as perfectly righteous,1 *as Christ the Righteous. Little children, let no man deceive you, he that doth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. Indeed our own righteousness, though it be the fruit of the Spirit of grace, is a blotted, stained righteousness, very imperfect, and very little; but by this, the Faith of David, Peter, Paul, was not more precious then ours is, because we have the same righteousness as they had: what sincere soul but esteems of perfect holiness, more then of heaven it self? O consider, we have it (in this sense I now speak of) in the Lord Jesus.