A75287:843
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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Sol. I answer, Why not? the Scripture we know is already known and received as the Word of God, and therefore what cometh after it, must needs borrow credit from it: Indeed, the truth of what the Spirit speaketh doth not depend upon the Word, yet the credit of it doth.
Sol. I answer, Why not? the Scripture we know is already known and received as the Word of God, and therfore what cometh after it, must needs borrow credit from it: Indeed, the truth of what the Spirit speaketh doth not depend upon the Word, yet the credit of it doth.
Obj. But there is no more Evidences (say they) save only the revealing Evidence, the Spirit of Christ, and the receiving Evidence, 1which is Faith; the Spirit within thee saith, Thy sin is forgiven thee, and Faith receiveth it, and sits down satisfied; now here is thy Evidence, if thou hast only these two, thou hast thy portion, thou needest no more.
Obj. But there is no more Evidences (say they) save onely the revealing Evidence, the Spirit of Christ, and the receiving Evidence, 1which is Faith; the Spirit within thee saith, Thy sin is forgiven thee, and Faith receiveth it, and sits down satisfied; now here is thy Evidence, if thou hast onely these two, thou hast thy portion, thou needest no more.
- 1Dr. Crisp ibid.
Sol. I Answer: 1. In this way, what profane person is there in this world, which may not conclude for himself, if he will but force upon himself this persuasion, That the Spirit saith it, and I believe it. 2. The revealing and receiving Evidence (i.) the Word of the Spirit, and the subscription of Faith, do not lay the ground of perfect peace, except there come in also the Evidence of inherent qualifications. For the better understanding of this, observe, That the Evidence of the Spirit is either mediate, when it enables the Soul to frame a Syllogism, wherein the minor, sc. the dictate of the Conscience, so far maketh to this Evidence, as our Graces are witnessed unto by the Spirit,