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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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6. Confidence.
And this (sweet Jesus) I am fully persuaded thou wilt do: I believe, Lord help my unbelief; surely thou art God, who canst not lye,1 and thou hast promised, that the upright shall love thee. O how should I but believe thee? and now thou hast in some sweet measure convinced me, now thou beginnest to warm my heart, and to cast me into a love-trance; now that my Spirit is somewhat raised, my heart in some sort enlarged, my mind in some measure fixed upon thee: I make bold (Lord) to conclude with this Spiritual Epithalamium, Blessed Lord, I am thine, only thine, ever thine, all that I am is at thy command, and all that I have is at thy disposing; be pleased to command both it and me: I know whatsoever I adventure or lose for thy sake, I shall receive with infinite advantage in thy blessed self. I dare trust my Lord with the best thing that ever he gave me, my precious soul. O my bleeding heart and broken spirit doth languish, in a thirsty love, panting and gasping after thee, my blessed Saviour: O let me taste how gracious thou art, by some real experiments in my own heart, smile upon me from heaven, answer me with some assuring whispers of the Spirit of Adoption; Kiss me with the kisses of thy mouth, 2for thy love is better then wine. O let me bathe my soul in the delicious intimacies of a Spiritual communion with thee my God, that I may for ever adhere unto thee with a sincere constancy, and rest in thee with a love of complacency: for I feel, I find my soul cast into a longing sweat for thee, and nothing can satisfy the importunate longing of my perplexed soul, but thy own self; for thou art my Lord, my love, my life, and thou art altogether lovely, O my dear Jesus! O my dearest Husband! O these holy fits! O these sweet pangs of love grow upon me apace! Upon a sudden, my King, my Saviour, I am even sick of love!