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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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2. That the Lord should take care for us as for Sons: In times of want we are ready to question, What we shall eat or drink? how we shall live? 1O consider, are we the Sons of God? then he that feeds the Ravens, and clothes the Lilies, will provide for us; or suppose we continue in the want of temporal things, ⟨p. 9⟩why the Lord is therein plotting our eternal good: No chastening for the present seemeth joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness, 2unto them which are exercised thereby.
2. That the Lord should take care for us as for Sons: In times of want we are ready to question, What we shall eat or drink? how we shall live? 1O consider, are we the Sons of God? then he that feeds the Ravens, and clothes the Lillies, will provide for us; or suppose we continue in the want of temporal things, ⟨p. 9⟩why the Lord is therein plotting our eternal good: No chastening for the present seemeth joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness, 2unto them which are exercised thereby.