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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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SECT. 2. The Circumstantials of Meditation.
The circumstantials of our Meditation, are time and place; I shall add to these (though I cannot call it a circumstance) the subject matter, which by way of preparation to the duty we may take notice of.
THe circumstantials of our Meditation, are time and place; I shall adde to these (though I cannot call it a circumstance) the subject matter, which by way of preparation to the duty we may take notice of.
1. For the time: No time can be prescribed to all men; for neither is God bound to hours, neither doth the contrary disposition of men agree in one choice of opportunities; some find their hearts most in frame in the morning; others learn wisdom of their reins in the night season; others find Isaac's time the fittest time, who went out in the evening to mediate: 1No practice of others can prescribe to us in this circumstance; it is enough that we set apart that time wherein we are aptest for that service.
1. For the time: No time can be prescribed to all men; for neither is God bound to hours, neither doth the contrary disposition of men agree in one choice of opportunities; some finde their hearts most in frame in the morning; others learn wisdom of their reins in the night season; others finde Isaac's time the fittest time, who went out in the evening to mediate: 1No practice of others can prescribe to us in this circumstance; it is enough that we set apart that time wherein we are aptest for that service.