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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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3. Hence the Lord accounts us Sons, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, 1according to the good pleasure of his will. O the excellency of this Privilege! It appears in these respects:
3. Hence the Lord accounts us Sons, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, 1according to the good pleasure of his will. O the excellency of this Priviledge! It appears in these respects:
1. That the Lord should prize us as his Sons: A man that hath Sons, esteems them more then all his goods and Servants; so the Lord esteems of the poorest, unworthiest Believer, more then of all his household-stuff, more then of Heaven, Earth, and all the glory of it, more then of all the Kings and great men in the world.
1. That the Lord should prize us as his Sons: A man that hath Sons, esteems them more then all his goods and Servants; so the Lord esteems of the poorest, unworthiest Believer, more then of all his houshold-stuff, more then of Heaven, Earth, and all the glory of it, more then of all the Kings and great men in the world.
2. That the Lord should take care for us as for Sons: In times of want we are ready to question, What we shall eat or drink? how we shall live?