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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 right way for both, is to order their Evidences aright, and by this course Graces will have their due, and the life of Faith will still be actually maintained and kept upon wing, in its full use and exercise towards Christ alone for Justification.
The right way for both, is to order their Evidences aright, and by this course Graces will have their due, and the life of Faith will still be actually maintained and kept upon wing, in its full ure and exercise towards Christ alone for Justification.
Quest. Why would not some men have Grace or Sanctification an Evidence?
Answ. In some it ariseth from their lusts, which they have a mind to live quietly in, desirous to keep their peace, and yet unwilling to forsake their lusts; and hence they exclude this Witness of water or Sanctification, to testify in the Court of Conscience; in others, I think it doth not arise from want of grace, but because the Spirit of Grace and Sanctification runs very low in them; ⟨p. 121⟩it can speak little, and that little very darkly and obscurely for them, therefore they have no great mind that it should be brought in as any witness for them; others I think may have much Grace, yet for a time they cast it by as an Evidence unto them, because they have Experience how difficult and troublesome it is to find this Evidence, and when 'tis found, how troublesome to read it, and keep it fair, and thereby to have constant peace and quietness: And hence arise those speeches, Why do you look to your Sanctification? it is a blotted Evidence, you may have it to day, and lose it to morrow, and then where is your peace? These men, because they feel not that measure of Sanctification they would, do therefore vilify and deny that they have; because they feel a Law of sin in their members, leading them away captive, therefore they will not take notice of the Law of their minds, whereby that inner man delights in the Law of God, and mourns bitterly under the body of death, by which they might see with Paul, That there is no condemnation to such,