Come then blessed Lord, and shew thy own self to me, I be∣seech thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me the way that I may know thee: —I beseech thee shew me thy glory;— give me the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ; let me see the beauties and glorious excellencies, and by this means blow my love into a pure flame, yea advance it to a degree of Angelical sublimity. Surely, Lord, I cannot love what I see not, and therefore anoint mine eyes with thy eye-salve, that I may see thy loveliness, and love thee with my best loves: O kindle, inflame, and inlarge my love, that it may rest largely in thee; inlarge the crany which the Spirit hath bored through the flesh into my Spirit, that I may largely see thee, and so large∣ly love thee; inlarge the arteries and conduit-pipes, by which thou the head and fountain of love flowest into thy members, that being abundantly quickned and watered with the Spirit of love, I may abundantly love thee: and do not onely come much, but come often into me, and let my Spirit often be one Spirit with thee, in communitive and fruitive unions; for such often unions with thy Spirit, will make my Spirit more Spiritual, and the more Spiritual she is, the more will she love thee, the God of all Spirits. Blessed Lord, wilt thou love the image, and shall not the image much more love the patern? O that I were sick of love! that my understanding, will and affections were all over∣flown, overcome and amazed, that my faintings were inflamed towards thee, and even melted into thee! O sweet Jesu, touch my soul with thy Spirit, that vertue may go out of thee into me, and draw me unto thee; let the savour of thy oyntments (whose very breath is love) be ever in my nostrils: Give me the flaggons of the new wine of the kingdom, which may lift up my soul above my self in my loves; give me to forget the low and base loves of this world, and by an heavenly excess, transport me into an
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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"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 17, 2024.
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heavenly love, that I may embrace Christ who is the Lord from heaven with a love like himself: O give me to believe, for faith and love grow together, and the stronger my faith, the greater will be my love.
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Exod 33 13.18.
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Ephes. 1.17.