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.

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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.
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Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.
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London :: Printed by John Field for Nathanaell Webb and William Grantham, at the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard,
1650. [i.e. 1649]
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800.
Asceticism -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75287.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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§. 2. What are the Miseries of Man in state of Nature?

1. HE is impure in his conception, Psal. 51.5.

2. He is born in iniquity, Psal. 51.5.

3. He is defiled with sin in the whole nature, Isa. 64.6. Ezek. 16.6. Rom. 7.24.

4. His thoughts are corrupted with sin, Gen. 6.5. Eph. 4.17, 18.

5. All the members of his body and powers of his soul are defiled with sin, 2 Pet. 2.14.

6. His members are servants to unrighteousness and to ini∣quity, Rom. 3.13, 14, 15, 16. and 6.19.

7. He is Spiritually blinde, Rev. 3.17. Jer. 10.14. 1 Cor. 2.14. Eph. 5.8.

8. His minde is set in evil works, Eph. 4.18. Col. 1.21.

9. His will lusteth after evil, Rom. 8.7.

10. His heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, Jer. 17.9.

11. His affections are inordinate, Isa. 59.7.

12. He hath a defiled conscience, Tit. 1.15.

13. He hath an unsatiable desire after sin, Job 14.4.—15.16.

14. He is full of sin, Prov. 22.15. Rom. 1.24.—7.5, 14. 2 Pet. 2.19.

15. He is dead in sin, Eph. 2.1, 2.

16. His civil actions are sin, Prov. 21.4.

17. His best services are sin, Prov. 15.8, 9, 28, 29.

18. He is unable to any good, Rom. 3.12.—7.19.—8.8. 2 Cor. 3.5. Rev. 3.17.

19. He is hated of God, Psal. 5.5.

20. He is seperated from all fellowship with God, Isa. 59.2. Eph. 2.12.

21. He is under Gods curse, Gal. 3.10. Deut. 28.16, 17, 18.

22. He is without Christ, Eph. 2.12. and out of the commu∣nion of Saints, Eph. 2.12.

23. He is a bondslave of Satan, John 8.34, 44. 2 Cor. 4.4. Eph. 2.2. Heb. 2.15.

24. He is a childe of wrath, Eph. 2.3.

25. He is subject to all the calamities and curses of this life, Deut. 28.15, 16, 17, &c.

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26. His life is short, and vain, and full of toil and care, Gen. 3.19. Eccles. 5.14. Psal. 103.14, 15.

27. He is liable to death, Rom. 5.12.—6.23. Gen. 3.19. Deut. 30.18. Psal. 89.48.

28. He is guilty of damnation, Rom. 5.17, 18.— 8.6. 2 Thess. 2.11, 12.

29. He shall not (as such) inherit the Kingdom of heaven, 1 Cor. 15.50. 2 Thess. 1.9.

30. He is an enemy to his children, Deut. 28.18.

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