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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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5. Opposites.
Now what are the contraries to this love of Christ, but an hatred of Christ? One would wonder there should be such a thing in the world, as hatred of Christ: But why then should the Apostle threat, If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, 1let him be Anathema, Maranatha; (i.) If any man hate Christ, let him be accursed with all manner of execrations or curses in the most desperate manner, expecting due vengeance from the Lord, 2when he cometh with his holy millions, to execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly: No question there is a world of wicked men, that are under this curse; I speak not of poor Indians, and other Savages of the unchristian world, whose souls are over-clouded with the blackest mists of irreligion, that the prince of darkness can possibly inwrap them in, who come into the world, not knowing wherefore, and go out of the world, not knowing whither; an heavy case, which cannot sufficiently be bewailed with an ocean of tears and blood; but of those that live within the paradise of the Christian Church, that have nothing to distinguish them from those Indian Miscreants, but an outward conformity, outward formalities, the charity of other men, and their own slight imaginations: As 1. All open enemies, gross, heinous and grievous sinners, swearers, blasphemers, drunkards, railers against God, his Ministers, his People, these and the like love sin more then Christ, they love the Devil more then Christ. 2. All fawning Hypocrites, that profess (it ⟨p. 146⟩