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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Dispositions required in this case, and to be prayed for.

Psal. 28.6. Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voyce of my supplications.

Psal. 116. 1, 2. I love the Lord, because he hath heard the voyce of my supplications, because he hath inclined his ear un∣to me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

Psal. 6.8. Away from me, ye workers of ini∣quity, God hath heard the voice of my weeping.

Ps. 66. 16, 17, 18, 19. Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul: I cryed unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue: If I regard ini∣quity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me; but verily God hath heard me, he hath attended to the voyce of my Prayer.

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Isa. 54.1. Sing O bar∣ren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, & cry aloud, thou that didst not travel with childe: for more are the children of the desolate, then the children of the marryed wife, saith the Lord.

Psa. 2.11. Rejoyce with trembling.

Psal. 44.8. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

Exo. 15.11. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, amongst the gods? who is like unto thee, glorious in holi∣nes, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Iudg. 5.15. For the divisions of Reuben, there were great thoughts of heart.

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