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 13, 2024.
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1645.
Feb. 27. This day I had given me an Augmentation to my former Means; The Lord grant I may rightly improve it to his glory. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies,* 1.1and not to cove∣tousness.
March 11. This day, with some other Christians, I ob∣served a private, but solemn day of Thanksgiving: The Duty no sooner done, but News came to the house (which exceeding∣ly heightned our joys in the Lord) that Bristol was taken.
Decemb. 2. This day Latham-Hall was delivered into the Parliaments hands: It is observed, That as it was twice Be∣sieged, so on the same day twelve-moneth that the former Siege was raised, was the latter Siege laid; and it is supposed (as it was foretold by a well-wisher to the house) that the blood shed at Bolton pulled down those walls.