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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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4. Effects.
What •re the effects, O my soul, of this Eternity?
1. Of Eternity in Hell, these amongst others; heavy, heavy, most sad and heavy thoughts, when the damned shall consider their dooms, Go ye into everlasting fires, then shall they cast their deep thoughts on Time past. Eternity to come.
1. For time past they shall remember, that sometimes they lived (at least some of them) in a glorious Goshen, enlightened with the fairest noon-tide of the Gospel that ever the Sun saw, and that they heard many and many a powerful Sermon; any one passage whereof (had they not suffered Satan to blindfold and baffle them) might have been unto them the beginning of the new birth; that many times they were told of this danger by Gods faithful Ministers; that they had many calls and offers of salvation, and the Spirit of God many a time cried behind them, This is the way, walk in it: That sometimes they were half persuaded to be Christians, and they were near salvation, and they had a golden opportunity for it; but alas, they revolted again, and preferred their lusts, and passed by those offers and opportunities, with an inexpiable neglect, and horrible ingratitude, and now they lie drowned and damned in that lake of fire and brimstone, which they might have so easily and so often escaped: O what a shrike will this cause in Hell? whiles at every of these considerations, the worm of conscience shall give them a deadly bite, even to the heart? that the memory of things here on earth, remains still with all spirits in the world of Hell,