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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.
Obser. 2. How the Father is the Husbandman.
As CHRIST is thus a Vine, so his Father is the Husbandman, ⟨p. 6⟩and as strange a Husbandman as Christ a Vine.
For first, he is the very root of the Vine it self, which no Husbandman is to any Vine; therefore he that is the Vine calls the Husbandman his Father, My Father is the Husbandman. This Vine springs out of his bosom by eternal generation, for this is the derivation of our Off-spring, Chap. 14. 20. I am in my Father, and you in me. And Chap. 5. 26. The Father, He hath life (original) in himself, and gives it to the Son, and the Son to us, and thence spring living fruits, the fruits of righteousness.
For first, he is the very root of the Vine it self, which no Husbandman is to any Vine; therefore he that is the Vine calls the Husbandman his Father, My Father is the Husbandman. This Vine springs out of his bosome by eternall generation, for this is the derivation of our Off-spring, Chap. 14. 20. I am in my Father, and you in me. And Chap. 5. 26. The Father, He hath life (originall) in himselfe, and gives it to the Sonne, and the Sonne to us, and thence spring living fruits, the fruits of righteousnesse.