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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. We must eye the truth of those Graces thus written in our hearts: There is a great deal of counterfeit Grace in the world; ⟨p. 122⟩a true Christian can have nothing, as discernible to others, but an hypocrite may have and do for the outward semblance as much as he; it is good therefore to try the truth of our Graces, and herein the rise, manner and end of our motions carry much manifestation in them. But of this more largely in the Duties of Self-Examination, and Receiving of the Lords Supper.
3. We must eye the truth of those Graces thus written in our hearts: There is a great deal of counterfeit Grace in the world; ⟨p. 122⟩a true Christian can have nothing, as discernable to others, but an hypocrite may have and do for the outward semblance as much as he; it is good therefore to try the truth of our Graces, and herein the rise, maner and end of our motions carry much manifestation in them. But of this more largely in the Duties of Self-Examination, and Receiving of the Lords Supper.
14. We must eye the testimony of the Spirit, witnessing with our spirit, that we are the children of God: As God hath set up a frame of holiness in every Believer,2 so he hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit: The Graces of the Spirit are a real earnest of the Spirit, yet they are not always an Evidential earnest, therefore an earnest is often superadded to our Graces.
- 1Rom. 8.16.
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