PSAL. 57. Title, To the chief Musitian, Altaschith Mich∣tam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave, or into the cave.
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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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- 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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- 1650. [i.e. 1649]
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- 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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either the beginning of the song, Destroy not, or else words ut∣tered by David in his extremity, staying and bridling his passi∣on, &c. Michtam of David] as if he should say, This was the golden or excellent sonnet, which David composed and deliver∣ed to the Levites to be sung, and after the tune of the Psalm be∣ginning with Altaschith, when he was in some wonderful fear and danger of death in the cave of Adullam, or En-gedi; whither he was driven by Saul, and so compassed about by his guard, that he saw nothing but death in the cave, or destruction if he came out, and thereupon prayeth, that he would not destroy, (i.) suffer him to be destroyed, which was the occasion of this song: See the story, 1 Sam. 22. and 24.