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The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.HThe soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H
The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.H.The soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H.
London: printed by R. Young and John Dawson, 1640
THE SOULS INGRAFTING INTO CHRIST.THE SOULES INGRAFTING INTO CHRIST.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
from him comes every good and perfect gift, and he will comfort thee. Wheresoever thou art, Christ will look in: if thou art banished, he will wander up and down all wildernesses but he will find thee, and save thee for ever. If we be not comforted, it is a shame for us, considering what wonderful privileges we have in Christ.
from him comes every good and perfect gift, and he will comfort thee. Wheresoever thou art, Christ will looke in: if thou art banished, he will wander up and downe all wildernesses but hee will find thee, and save thee for ever. If we be not comforted, it is a shame for us, considering what wonderful priviledges we have in Christ.
Use 2 Use 2. The second use is for examination and trial.1 Doth Christ come suddenly into the heart truly humbled and prepared? Let us try then, and take a taste of the spirits of such men that are not able to bear nor endure the presence of poor broken hearted sinners. If the servant will not lie for the masters advantage, and if the child leave ⟨p. 119⟩his base courses, and will not give a carnal father content according to his mind, mark how their spirits rise against such men, their hearts rise with marvellous desperate indignation against such men, they cannot think of them with any quiet, they cannot brook the sight of them: if it be a servant never so loose and vile, he is regarded; but the humble child is trampled upon, and they say to him, You had best go to your holy brethren, and to the company of such and such precise ones. This is the undoubted argument of a graceless spirit: either Christ errs, or else thou art out of the way; either Christ is to be blamed for his practice, or thou. Doth he come to such as are humbled and art thou weary of them? Thou art a graceless soul, and an enemy to the Lord of life, When the people of Israel began to speak of going into the wilderness to sacrifice to the Lord their God, they did stink, and were abominable in the eyes of Pharaoh and the Egyptians: indeed the Egyptians did always dislike them,