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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SECT. 10.
§. 1. Of Prophets Dogmatical. Iob contains
A Dialogue:
1. The occasion, his
1. Prosperity. [Chap. 1]
2. Adversity. [Chap. 2]
3. Sin. [Chap. 3]
2. The sorts, and so observe the speeches of
The Disputants,
...Eliphaz. [Chap. 4, 5.]
...Job. [Chap. 6, 7.]
...Bildad. [Chap. 8]
...Job. [Chap. 9, 10.]
...Zophar. [Chap. 11]
...Job. [Chap. 12, 13, 14]
...Eliphaz. [Chap. 15]
...Job. [Chap. 16, 17.]
...Bildad. [Chap. 18]
...Job. [Chap. 19]
...Zophar. [Chap. 20]
...Job. [Chap. 21]
...Eliphaz. [Chap. 22]
...Job. [Chap. 23, 24.]
...Bildad. [Chap. 25]
...Job. [Chap. 26, ad 32.]
The Moderators,
1. Elihu. [Chap. 32, 33.]
2. God. [Chap. 34, ad 41.]
An Epilogue. [Chap. 42]
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§. 2. The Psalms are by the Hebrews divided into five Books.
1. From Psal. 1. to the end of Psal 41. concluded with Amen and Amen.
2. From Psal. 42. to the end of Psal. 72. shut up with Amen and Amen.
3. From Psal. 73. to the end of Psal. 89. closed with Amen and Amen.
4. From Psal. 90. to the end of Psal. 106. ending with Amen, Halleluiah.
5. From Psal. 107. to the end of Psal. 150. concluding with Halleluiah.
This division seems to arise from the peculiar close of these five Psalms.
Others divide them into two parts, some
Directed from Man to God, as the Praying and Thanksgiving Psalms.
Directed from God to Man, as
The Exhortatory
Consolatory
Didactical
Prophetical
Psalms.
In stead of a more exact and orderly method, the Reader may observe in the end of this Chapter some particulars for his better understanding in reading the Psalms.
§. 3. Proverbs contains Rules of life,
1. General, about piety, wherein
1. What we must do. [Chap. 1, 2, 3, 4.]
2. What we must avoid. [Chap. 5, ad 10.]
2. Special, and so the life of man is informed by all sorts of Rules,
Political.
Oeconomical. [Chap. 10, ad fin,]
Moral.
§. 4. Ecclesiastes treats
1. Of the vanity of all earthly things, proved by Solomons observations in
His own estate. [Chap. 1, 2.]
Conditions of all sorts of men. [Chap. 3, ad 10.]
2. Rules to be observed in this vain life of ours. [Chap. 10, 11, 12]
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§. 5. Canticles. Descriptions of the love 'twixt Christ and his Church,
In speeches
1. Twixt Christ and Church. [Chap. 1]
2. Church and Christ. [Chap. 2]
3. Church. [Chap. 3]
4. Christ. [Chap. 4]
5. Church. [Chap. 5]
6. Church and Christ. [Chap. 6]
7. Church. [Chap. 7, 8.]
These are the Books Dogmatical: Now follows Prophets
Four greater.
Twelve lesser.
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