A41536:27
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.
For take those choicest excellencies in a Vine, for which the comparison here is made, as more particularly, that of fruitfulness either in boughs or fruit, and it is but a shadow of that which is in him. As God only is [I am that I am,] and all things else have but the shadow of Being: so Christ alone hath ⟨p. 5⟩only all the excellencies in him in the true real nature of all things to which he is compared. So in like manner he is said to be Bread indeed, John 6. 55. and ver. 32. The true bread from heaven. Manna, and all other meat, and all that sweetness which is in meat, is and was but a shadow to that which he affords. He excels and exceeds all things he is compared to, in what they have, and they are but shadows to him, Heb. 10. 1.
For take those choicest excellencies in a Vine, for which the comparison here is made, as more particularly, that of fruitfulnesse either in boughs or fruit, and it is but a shadow of that which is in him. As God onely is [I am that I am,] and all things else have but the shadow of Being: so Christ alone hath ⟨p. 5⟩