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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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There is a twofold Eternity, an Eternity of woe, and an Eternity of joy: First of woe, O woe that never shall have end! The worm shall not dye, 1the fire never shall be quenched: After a thousand thousand millions of years, there are still as many more to come, and when those many more are come and gone, the woes are yet as far from the last as they were at the first: It is now above Four thousand years since Esau, who hated Jacob, was cast into this pit of woes, and yet the number of his years of torments are as many, as it was the first day of his torment. Secondly, of joy, O joy,2 above all the joys in harvest; they are the joys of Heaven: There joys the understanding, by a perfect knowledge and vision of God; there joys the memory, by a perfect remembrance of all things past; there joys the will, by enjoying all manner of good, without all fear of evil: In this joy there is no corruption, no defect, no old age, but solemn glory, and continual solemnity; there is an everlasting spring, there is always the flower, and grace of youth and perfect health: With thee is the fountain of life, 3and in thy light shall we see light.
There is a twofold Eternity, an Eternity of wo, and an Eternity of joy: First of wo, O wo that never shall have end! The worm shall not dye, 1the fire never shall be quenched: After a thousand thousand millions of years, there are still as many more to come, and when those many more are come and gone, the woes are yet as far from the last as they were at the first: It is now above Four thousand years since Esau, who hated Jacob, was cast into this pit of woes, and yet the number of his years of torments are as many, as it was the first day of his torment. Secondly, of joy, O joy,