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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
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.
1Doct. The Spirit of the Father kindles in the soul of a sinner, truly humbled and enlightened, love and joy, to entertain and rejoice in the riches of his mercy, so as beseems the worth of it. There are three passages considerable, that we may know the meaning of this Doctrine.
1Doct. The Spirit of the Father kindles in the soule of a sinner, truly humbled and inlightned, love and joy, to entertaine and rejoyce in the riches of his mercy, so as beseemes the worth of it. There are three passages considerable, that wee may know the meaning of this Doctrine.
- 1Love and joy by the spirit wrought in a broken heart, for embracing mercy as it deserves.
First, this love and joy is no where to be found nor seen, but only in a heart humbled and enlightened: For unless the heart be humbled, it seeth no need of this grace and mercy, and therefore despiseth it, and is rather carried with a hatred against that grace and mercy that would purge him; and troubled with a kind of weariness of the power of that grace that would reform his life and conversation. And though he were humbled, yet if he were not enlightened to see this mercy and goodness of God, he cannot delight in it. I know there is wild love and joy enough in the world, as there is wild Thyme and other herbs, but we would have garden-love and garden-joy, of Gods own planting: for such hypocritical love and joy we will not meddle with here.
First, this love and joy is no where to be found nor seene, but onely in a heart humbled and inlightned: For unlesse the heart be humbled, it seeth no need of this grace and mercy, and therefore despiseth it, and is rather carried with a hatred against that grace and mercy that would purge him; and troubled with a kind of wearinesse of the power of that grace that would reforme his life and conversation. And though hee were humbled, yet if he were not enlightned to see this mercy and goodnesse of God, he cannot delight in it. I know there is wilde love and joy enough in the world, as there is wilde Thyme and other herbes, but wee would have garden-love and garden-joy, of Gods owne planting: for such hypocriticall love and joy we will not meddle with here.