A75287:943
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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Conclusion.
1And now, O my soul, return unto thy rest, for the Lord hath been beneficial unto thee: The reason of thy love is Christs love; Thou lovest him, because he first loved thee. Is it thus, O my ⟨p. 151⟩soul? hath the Lord Christ indeed discovered his will, to take thee for his Spouse? What, he that is so holy, to marry such an impure wretch as thou art? O how should this but melt thee into a flame of love? what stirrings of love shouldst thou now feel in thy bowels? how shouldst thou now value him, and prize him, and praise him? how should thy glory now sing praises to him, and not be silent? how shouldst thou admire and wonder, that thou couldst endure to be without Christ so long? that thou couldst so slightly think of Christ heretofore? O my soul, henceforward cling to thy Saviour, go out of thy self, and creep to him, and affect not only union, but very unity with him; bathe thy self hereafter again and again, many and many a time in those delicious intimacies of thy spiritual marriage: And to that purpose (O my soul) if sometimes thy love to thy Saviour shall cool, O then sweet Saviour look upon me in mercy; one look of thine will awaken my love, and make me weep bitterly, that I have loved thee so little, whom to love sufficiently, my best and mightiest loves are most insufficient: Prevent my seeking with thy seeking, be thou present with me in thy providence and power, when thou seemest to be far off me, in the taste of thy sweetness and fruition of thy loves; and then when I have regained thee, I will hold more hardly, and keep more fastly, and love thee more vehemently, by thy power assisting: Provide a stock of loves in the summer, against winter, if it return any more: Come Lord Jesus, and be as the Roe on the Mountains; my life is hid with thee, O appear quickly,