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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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THE Believers Privileges. › Chapter 6THE Believers Priviledges. › Chapter 6
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CHAP. 6.
SECT. I. Of the nature of Evidences.
The Scriptures set out the ways of discovering things spiritual, by sight and by taste: By taste, Experience is meant; and by sight, faith, and assurance of faith is intended: Peter speaks of tasting that the Lord is gracious; 1and Moses by faith saw him which is invisible: David joins both together, O taste and see that the Lord is good: Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. We have done with tasting, the next is seeing, which I call Assurance, or Evidence: Would we know what these Evidences are? I look at them as inherent and habitual observations of the Spirits actings in the Soul; of which the beloved Apostle speaks so often, Hereby we know that we know him, 2if we keep his Commandments.—We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the Brethren: 3— By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his Commandments:—These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, 4that ye may know that ye have eternal life; and the Apostle Paul, Now we have received, not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.