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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.
But 2. God the Father having many branches of chosen ones, that grew by nature on this cursed stock of Adam, whom yet, ⟨p. 4⟩as ver. 16. he had ordained to bring forth fruit, that is, to spring and spread forth in the earth in all ages, and then to be transplanted unto Heaven, the Paradise appointed for them; the earth being but the nursery of them for a while: Hence therefore he did appoint his own Son to be a new root, as into whom he meant to transplant them, and ordained him to be that bulk, and body, and chief branch which they all should grow out of, who is therefore called The root of David, Rev. 22. and that Righteous branch, Jer. 22. 6.
But 2. God the Father having many branches of chosen ones, that grew by nature on this cursed stock of Adam, whom yet, ⟨p. 4⟩as ver. 16. he had ordained to bring forth fruit, that is, to spring and spread forth in the earth in all ages, and then to be transplanted unto Heaven, the Paradise appointed for them; the earth being but the nurserie of them for a while: Hence therefore he did appoint his own Sonne to be a new root, as into whom he meant to transplant them, and ordained him to be that bulk, and body, and chiefe branch which they all should grow out of, who is therefore called The roote of David, Rev. 22. and that Righteous branch, Jer. 22. 6.
Whom therefore 3. he planted as a root here on earth with us, and clothed with a humane nature, a weak and mean bark and body, and a rind and out side, such as ours is; that so both root and branches might be of the same nature, and Homogeneall: which nature of ours in him, he likewise filled with his Spirit (as with juice and sap) without all measure, that so he might fructify, and grow into all those branches appointed to be in him, by communicating the same spirit to them.