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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.
First,1 because Jesus Christ hath purchased an eternal divorce between corruption and our hearts: He hath bought off all our corruptions, and redeemed us from all iniquity. Titus 2. 14. He gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, and God will have the price of Christs blood •ut.
First,1 because Jesus Christ hath purchased an eternall divorce betweene corruption and our hearts: He hath bought off all our corruptions, and redeemed us from all iniquitie. Titus 2. 14. He gave himselfe for us, that he might redeeme us from all iniquitie, and purifie unto himselfe a peculiar people, and God will have the price of Christs bloud •ut.
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Secondly,1 because God desires more and more to have delight in us, and to draw nigh to us, and therefore he more and more goes on to purge us; For though he loves us at first, when full of corruptions, yet he cannot so much delight in us as he would, nor have that communion with us, no more then a Husband can with a wife, who hath an unsavoury breath, or a loathsome disease. They must therefore be purified for his bed, as ⟨p. 65⟩Esther was for Ahasuerus. Draw nigh to God, says James, and I will draw nigh to you,