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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Cant. 2.3. I sate down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
2 Cor. 7.4. I am filled with comfort, I am ex∣ceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
Acts 13.52. And they were filled with joy, and with the holy Ghost.
Cant. 3.1, 2, 3, 4. I sought him whom my soul loveth, I sought him, but I found him not: I will rise now, & go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I wil seek him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but I found him not: —it was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth.
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Zech. 12.10. And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one that mourneth for his onely son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first∣born.
Heb. 4.13. All things are naked and open un∣to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Isa. 38.14. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter, I did mourn as a dove, mine eyes fail with looking upwards: O Lord un∣dertake for me.
Ps. 39.3, 4. while I was musing, the fire burn∣ed; then spake I with my tongue, Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days.
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Cant. 5.1. I am come into my garden, my sister my spouse, I have gather∣ed my myrrhe with my spice; I have eaten my honey-comb with my ho∣ney; I have drunken my wine with my milk: Eat O friends, drink, yea drink abundantly, O beloved.
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