A75287:962
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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O how they tear their hair, and bite their nails, and gnash their teeth, and dig furiously into the very fountain of life, desirous (if they could do it possibly) to spit out their very bowels. O my heart, well mayest thou tremble in the midst of this Meditation! O Eternity! Eternity! Eternity!
2. Of Eternity in heaven, these (amongst others) are the effects, rousing, raising, and most ravishing thoughts, when the blessed shall consider their doom, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom: Then shall they cast their thoughts on Time past. Eternity to come.
2. Of Eternity in heaven, these (amongst others) are the effects, rowzing, raising, and most ravishing thoughts, when the blessed shall consider their doom, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom: Then shall they cast their thoughts on Time past. Eternity to come.
1. For time past, they shall remember, That sometimes they were in troubles, in sorrows, in sicknesses, in contempt of others, in dangers by Sea and Land; That sometimes they were ready to perish, and to cast away their souls by this or that sin, but that God still held his special hand over them, and gave them grace, and now hath brought them into the Port and Haven of Security, where is no shadow of miseries: O what ravishing of Spirit will the souls of the just be cast into at this recalling of time past! and that the memory of things here below, remains still with all the Spirits of the just made perfect, is manifest:1 Remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom, said the good Thief to Christ.