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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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10. A courageous resisting of doubts, scruples, temptations; not but that doubts will come after assurance: We see the Sun is one day bright, and the next day is covered; Evidences may be lost, though interest be continued: yet Assurance and Evidences rightly improved and sanctified to us, may help us against all the shakings, and shiverings, and doubtings of the Soul, and of their own nature they do resist them: Hence the best cure and remedy of doubtings, is to perfect and strengthen our assurance; the more purely the fire burns, the less smoke it hath; when the light and heat of the Sun are greatest, then the clouds and ⟨p. 132⟩misty vapours are fewest: Assurance and Doubting are like a pair of scales, where the weight of the one bears away the other.
10. A couragious resisting of doubts, scruples, temptations; not but that doubts will come after assurance: We see the Sun is one day bright, and the next day is covered; Evidences may be lost, though interest be continued: yet Assurance and Evidences rightly improved and sanctified to us, may help us against all the shakings, and shiverings, and doubtings of the Soul, and of their own nature they do resist them: Hence the best cure and remedy of doubtings, is to perfect and strengthen our assurance; the more purely the fire burns, the less smoke it hath; when the light and heat of the Sun are greatest, then the clouds and ⟨p. 132⟩misty vapors are fewest: Assurance and Doubting are like a pair of scales, where the weight of the one bears away the other.
Quest. 1 But how should assurance be strengthened?
Quest. 1 But how should assurance be strengthned?