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 May 20, 2024.
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1. VVE bless God for our election, with all the golden chain of Graces hanging on it.
We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby we are beloved for the Fathers sake, and for that golden chain of Graces hanging thereon, having predesti∣nated us to the adoption of Children, by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will; — Having accepted us in the beloved, in whom we have redemption through his blood;— Having given us the forgiveness of our sins, according to the riches of his grace; — Having quickned us who were dead in trespasses and sins: — Walking in times past according to the course of this world, according to the Prince of the power
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of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobe∣dience:— But God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickned us together with Christ:—And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,—That in ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace unto us:—See Col. 1.12, 21. Rom. 11.7, 28. 1 Thes. 1.4. Rom. 8.15, 23. Gal. 4.5. Ephes. 1.5. Psal. 111.9.— 130.7. Rom. 3.24. Heb. 9.12, 15. Col. 1.14. Rom. 4.7. Eph. 4.32. 1 John 2.12, &c.