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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Rom. 7.21, 22, 23. I finde a law, that when I would do good, evil is pre∣sent with me. I delight in the law of God after the inner man; but I see an∣other law in my mem∣bers, warring against the law of my minde.

Gal. 6.12. As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you—onely lest you should suffer persecu¦tion for the cross of Christ.

Gal. 2.14. But (howsoever I yielded not) I saw that I walked not uprightly accord∣ing to the truth of the Gospel

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Psal. 69.5. O God, thou knowest my fool∣ishnes, and my sins are not hid from thee.

Jer. 17.9. The heart is deceitful above things.

2 Cor. 12.11. I am become a fool in glo∣rying, ye have com∣pelled me.

Mat. 26.58, 70. But Peter followed him a∣far off unto the high priests pallace, and went in, and sate with the servants to see the end; —and saying (to the damsel that came unto him) I know not what thou sayest.

2 Cor. 11.7. That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly in this confidence of boasting.

2 Cor. 12.11. I am be∣come a fool in glorying.

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Gal. 1.13, 14, 15, 16. For ye have heard of my con∣versation in time past, — being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who sepe∣rated me from my mo∣thers womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.

Rom. 7.5. What I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I.

Rom. 7.18, 19. To will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good, I finde not: for the good that I would do, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Gal. 5.17. For the flesh lust∣eth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other.

Rom. 7.22. For I delight in the law of God after the in∣ward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my minde.

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Jerem. 17.9. The heart is deceitful a∣bove all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?

Rom. 7.21. I finde then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

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