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.
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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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§. 5. First Book of Samuel. Jews state under Kings Elect.
1 Samuel contains
1. Time of change of Government in Samuels days; whose birth is described [Chap. 1, & part 2.]
2. Occasion of the change; viz. wickedness of the Sons of
Eli, which is
Threatned. [Chap. 2, 3.]
Punished. [Chap. 4, 5, 6, 7.]
Samuels Sons. [Chap. 8]
3. Story of the Kings.
1. Saul; of whose
1. Election, as he was
Called. [Chap. 9]
Confirmed by
1. Inauguration. [Chap. 10]
2. Consent of the People. [Chap. 11]
3. Resignation of Samuel. [Chap. 12]
2. Rejection, with the true causes of it. [Chap. 13, 14, 15]
2. David his
Prosperity,
His vocation to his Kingdom. [Chap. 16]
Victory over Goliah. [Chap. 17]
Adversity,
1. His exile and ba∣nishment,
1. The cause of it. [Chap. 18]
2. The kindes of it, viz.
In his own Country. [Chap. 19, 20.]
Out of it, amongst
...Philistims. [Chap. 21]
...Moabites. [Chap. 22]
2. His persecutions; wherein
1. The grievousness appears
1. By the diversity of places whither he fled. [Chap. 23, to 27.]
2. Flight to his enemies, with whom he lived. [Chap. 27, to 30.]
2. The end of them. [Chap. 31]
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