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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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Meditation is a deep and earnest musing upon some point of Christian instruction, to the strengthening of us against the flesh, world and Devil, and to the leading us forward towards the Kingdom of Heaven; or Meditation is a steadfast bending of the mind to some spiritual matter, discoursing of it with others, till we bring the same to some profitable issue.
MEditation is a deep and earnest musing upon some point of Christian instruction, to the strengthening of us against the flesh, world and Devil, and to the leading us forward towards the Kingdom of Heaven; or Meditation is a stedfast bending of the minde to some spiritual matter, discoursing of it with others, till we bring the same to some profitable issue.
Now this Meditation is either sudden or set, occasional, or solemn, and deliberate.
1. Occasional or Extemporal Meditation, ariseth from such things as God by his providence offers to our eyes, ears and senses. When I consider the Heavens, 1the work of thy fingers, the Moon and Stars which thou hast ordained: What is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou visitest him? This Meditation of Davids was occasional.
1. Occasional or Extemporal Meditation, ariseth from such things as God by his providence offers to our eyes, ears and senses. When I consider the Heavens, 1the work of thy fingers, the Moon and Stars which thou hast ordained: What is man that thou art mindeful of him, or the son of man, that thou visitest him? This Meditation of Davids was occasional.