A75287:836
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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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.
There is a threefold work of the Spirit; 1. To convey and plant Grace in the soul. 2. To act and help us to exercise the Graces which are planted there. 3. To shine upon and enlighten those Graces, or to give an earnest of those Graces.
This last work the Spirit fulfils two ways; 1. By Arguments and Inferences, which is a mediate work. 2. By presence and influence, which is an immediate work.