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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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1. That we be not too curious in prosecution of these Logical places; the end of this Duty is not to practise Logic, but to exercise Religion, and to kindle Piety and Devotion: Besides, every theme will not afford all these places; as when we meditate of God, there is no room for Causes and Comparisons: it will therefore be sufficient, if we take the most pregnant and voluntary places.
1. That we be not too curious in prosecution of these Logical places; the end of this Duty is not to practise Logick, but to exercise Religion, and to kindle Piety and Devotion: Besides, every theme will not afford all these places; as when we meditate of God, there is no room for Causes and Comparisons: it will therefore be sufficient, if we take the most pregnant and voluntary places.
2. That if we stick in the disposition of any of these pla•es (as if meditating of sin, we cannot readily meet with material and formal causes) we rack not our minds too much with the inquiry thereof, but quietly pass over to the next.
2. That if we stick in the disposition of any of these pla•es (as if meditating of sin, we cannot readily meet with material and formal causes) we rack not our mindes too much with the inquiry thereof, but quietly pass over to the next.
2. Concerning that part which is in the affection, it is good to follow that course which the common places of Rhetoric do lead us unto: These are six: viz. 1. A relish of what we have meditated on. 2. A complaint, bewailing our wants of this relish. 3. A wish of the soul for what it complaineth to want. 4. A confession of our inabilities, to effect what we wish. 5. A petition for the supply of our inabilities. 6. A confidence of obtaining what we petition for.