But alas! where is my soul? how dull is my understanding? my affection? how careless, how peevish is my soul, in a business which concerns it so much? how prejudicate is my opinion? how vain are my conceits? O my soul! how ignorant art thou of the incomparable worth, and delightful sweetness that is in the Lord Jesus? how secute, and sleepy, and sensless art thou? O this hard heart of mine! thou canst mourn for losses and cros∣ses of this life, but for the loss of Christ, thou canst not mourn one jot: Didst thou, O my soul, truly affect Christ, the pillow would be washed with thy tears for thy want of Christ, and for thy want of assurance: Wo, and alas, that my minde is taken up with a confluence of worldly lusts, worldly cares, and world∣ly desires! O it is this that quencheth the Conjugal love of my soul to her bridegroom; my loves are now become very adul∣terous loves: wo, and alas, that I have loved the world,* 1.1 and the things that are in this world, that I have followed my base lusts, and adulteries, and abominations; that in stead of loving Christ, I have loathed him, and whipt him, and scourged him, and cruci∣fied him, and preferred the vilest lust (any sin whatsoever) before the Lord Jesus. And now I am musing of this love of Christ,
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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- 1650. [i.e. 1649]
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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 7, 2024.
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alas, I feel it not, or if I feel a little, little love of desire, yet I have no sence, no taste, no relish of that love of complacency; there is no such fire, no flames in my breast towards the Lord Jesus.
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1 Iohn 2.15.