A41536:211
The trial of a Christians growth in mortification, purging out corruption, or vivification, bringing…The tryall of a Christians growth in mortification, purging out corruption, or vivification, bringing…
The trial of a Christians growth in mortification, purging out corruption, or vivification, bringing forth more fruit a treatise handling this case, how to discern our growth in grace : affording some helps rightly to judge thereof by resolving some tentations, clearing some mistakes, answering some questions, about spiritual growth : together with other observations upon the Parable of the vine, John 15. 1, 2 verses / by Tho. Goodwin.The tryall of a Christians growth in mortification, purging out corruption, or vivification, bringing forth more fruit a treatise handling this case, how to discerne our growth in grace : affording some helps rightly to judge thereof by resolving some tentations, clearing some mistakes, answering some questions, about spiritual growth : together with other observations upon the Parable of the vine, John 15. 1, 2 verses / by Tho. Goodwin.
London: printed by J.G. for R. Dawlman, 1650
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.
Fifthly,1 the more we learn to bring forth fruits in season, the more fruit we may be said to bring forth: For the seasonable performance of them makes them more. All the fruits in their season, how acceptable are they? which out of season, they are not. In the first Psalm a righteous man is said to bring forth his fruits in due season: and in the Proverbs, Words in season are as apples of gold and pictures of silver. In Ezek. 41. they are said to bring forth pleasant fruits in their months; as in reproving he is not so much to reprove, as to reprove in season; to have our senses exercised to know fit seasons, and to consider one another to provoke to love, as it is Heb. 10. Young Christians do more, but more out of season, and the devil abuseth them, putting them upon duties, when they would be at their refreshings, at their callings; he deceiving them with this, that holy duties in themselves as alone simply compared, are better then to do any thing else; when as the season adds the goodness to our actions: Thus to recreate thy self at some seasons is better then to be a praying. A righteous man orders his conversation aright, Psal. 50. and order gives a rectitude, a goodness to things.
Fifthly,1 the more we learne to bring forth fruits in season, the more fruit we may be said to bring forth: For the seasonable performance of them makes them more. All the fruits in their season, how acceptable are they? which out of season, they are not. In the first Psalme a righteous man is said to bring forth his fruits in due season: and in the Proverbs, Words in season are as apples of gold and pictures of silver. In Ezek. 41. they are said to bring forth pleasant fruits in their moneths; as in reproving he is not so much to reprove, as to reprove in season; to have our senses exercised to know fit seasons, and to consider one another to provoke to love, as it is Heb. 10. Young Christians doe more, but more out of season, and the devill abuseth them, putting them upon duties, when they would be at their refreshings, at their callings; he deceiving them with this, that holy duties in themselves as alone simply compared, are better then to doe any thing else; when as the season adds the goodnesse to our actions: Thus to recreate thy self at some seasons is better then to be a praying. A righteous man orders his conversation aright,