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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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Answ. I Answer, There is ever an harmony and sweet accord between the inward and outward testimony, between the Spirit of God, and the Word of God, and therefore we may discern the testimony of the Spirit by the Word. Thus in the Old Testament, ⟨p. 123⟩all Revelations were to be examined by the Word, Deut. 13.1. Isa. 8.20. and in the New Testament our Saviour tells us, That the Spirit shall lead you into all truth: How so?1 For he shall not speak of himself, but what he shall hear, that shall he speak: And what is that which the Spirit heareth, is it not that which is already contained in the Scriptures?
Answ. I Answer, There is ever an harmony and sweet accord between the inward and outward testimony, between the Spirit of God, and the Word of God, and therefore we may discern the testimony of the Spirit by the Word. Thus in the Old Testament, ⟨p. 123⟩all Revelations were to be examined by the Word, Deut. 13.1. Isa. 8.20. and in the New Testament our Savior tells us, That the Spirit shall lead you into all truth: How so?1 For he shall not speak of himself, but what he shall hear, that shall he speak: And what is that which the Spirit heareth, is it not that which is already contained in the Scriptures?