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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. Be in the way of strength: There are ways in which God doth reveal his arm (i.) his Ordinances; he that is too good for the Ordinances, will ever be too weak in his faith. One thing (could David say) have I desired of the Lord, 1that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life: and to what end? that I may behold the beauty of the Lord, 2and visit his Temple: what this beauty is, he himself expounds, We thought of thy loving kindness in the midst of thy Temple: The loving kindness of God, his mercy and countenance upon his own servants, that is the Lords beauty, that is it which makes him amiable in his own people.
2. Be in the way of strength: There are ways in which God doth reveal his arm (i.) his Ordinances; he that is too good for the Ordinances, will ever be too weak in his faith. One thing (could David say) have I desired of the Lord, 1that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life: and to what end? that I may behold the beauty of the Lord, 2and visit his Temple: what this beauty is, he himself expounds, We thought of thy loving kindeness in the midst of thy Temple: The loving kindeness of God, his mercy and countenance upon his own servants, that is the Lords beauty, that is it which makes him amiable in his own people.