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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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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.
1This the Apostle calls Witness-bearing, the Spirit brings in the witness of the water, and of the blood, which is his mediate work; but besides and above these, he gives a distinct witness of his own, which is his immediate work, and is in a way of peculiarity and transcendency, called, The witness of the Spirit: Hence that of the Apostle,2 We have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things that are freely given us of God: The things freely given us, may be received by us, and yet the receipt of them not known to us; therefore the Spirit for our further consolation, doth (as it were) put his hand and seal to our receipts;3 whence he is said, To seal us up unto the day of Redemption.