A41536:71
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.
And yet 4. in the mean while take the lowest and poorest believer,1 and he doth these five things, which put together, is really and interpretatively a bringing forth their fruit in Christ, though not in their apprehensions.
And yet 4. in the mean while take the lowest and poorest beleever,1 and he doth these five things, which put together, is really and interpretatively a bringing forth their fruit in Christ, though not in their apprehensions.
- 1Yet every Believer doth five things which are really to bring forth fruit in Christ.Yet every Beleever doth five things which are really to bring forth fruit in Christ.
1. In that their hearts are trained up in a continual sensibleness of their own insufficiency and inability for any good thought or word, as of themselves; for poverty of spirit, to see their own nothingness, in this respect is the first Evangel grace, Mat. 5. 1. and and if the contrary would arise in them, to think through habitual grace alone received, they were able of themselves to do good, it is checked soon, and confuted by their own experience, both of their own weakness, being sure to be left to themselves, (as Peter was) when confident in his own strength; ⟨p. 20⟩as also by those various blowings of the Spirit in them as he pleaseth; with which when their sails are filled, they are able to do any thing, but when withdrawn, they lay wind-bound, (though all habits of grace be hoist up and ready) and not able to move of themselves. Now this principle of self emptiness habitually to live by it, no carnal heart in the world hath it, or doth live by it.