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The Christians two chief lessons viz. self-denial, and self-trial. As also the privilege of…The Christians tvvo chiefe lessons viz. selfe-deniall, and selfe-tryall. As also the priviledge of…
The Christians two chief lessons viz. self-denial, and self-trial. As also the privilege of adoption and trial thereof. In three treatises on the texts following: viz. Matt. 16.24. 2 Cor. 13.5. John 1.12,13. By T.H.The Christians tvvo chiefe lessons viz. selfe-deniall, and selfe-tryall. As also the priviledge of adoption and triall thereof. In three treatises on the texts following: viz. Matt. 16.24. 2 Cor. 13.5. Iohn 1.12,13. By T.H.
London: printed by T. Badger for P. Stephens and C. Meredith, 1640
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2. Breeding is of some-living thing; so in the spiritual birth, Ephes. 2.5.1 You hath he quickened which were dead in trespasses and sins, Ezek. 36.26. A new heart will I give unto you, and there will be an alteration and change in a man when he is once regenerated; a new joy, new love, new fear, new desires; and the Sabbaths of God, which formerly were wearisome and burdensome unto him, are now delightsome; and so of the rest. In a word, he will love what before he loathed, and loath what before he loved.
2. Breeding is of some-living thing; so in the spirituall birth, Ephes. 2.5.1 You hath hee quickned which were dead in trespasses and sinnes, Ezek. 36.26. A new heart will I give unto you, and there will be an alteration and change in a man when hee is once regenerated; a new joy, new love, new feare, new desires; and the Sabbaths of God, which formerly were wearisome and burthensome unto him, are now delightsome; and so of the rest. In a word, he will love what before he loathed, and loath what before he loved.
3. Breeding is a producing of an entire body; children have at the first not a rude mass, but an organical body, all the parts and lineaments of a man. So it is in this spiritual breeding likewise; put on the new man,