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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.
TO THE READER.
This following Treatise [The Trial of a Christians Growth] was formerly printed during the time of my absence out of my native Country: and by reason thereof had many imperfections and incongruities both in style and matter; which, now being again (through the good hand of God upon me) returned, I have endeavoured to amend. So as partly through some alteration in the method and frame of it, partly by cutting off some redundancies, I have reduced it to some better shape, and nearer proportion to its fellows.
THis following Treatise [The Tryall of a Christians Growth] was formerly printed during the time of my absence out of my native Country: and by reason thereof had many imperfections and incongruities both in style and matter; which, now being againe (through the good hand of God upon me) returned, I have endeavoured to amend. So as partly through some alteration in the method and frame of it, partly by cutting off some redundancies, I have reduced it to some better shape, and neerer proportion to its fellowes.
The scope and way of handling this subject [Growth] is not Doctrinal so much, nor yet Hortatory, as either persuading to, or discoursing of a Christians growth in general, (concerning which much hath been already written by others) But the more proper aim of this is to resolve A Case of Conscience, (like as those two other preceding Tractates of mine have done) namely this, How to discern our growth, and to answer more usual temptations about it: And so these three Treatises being of like sort and kind, and properly belonging to that part of Theology which we call Case Divinity; I have therefore in this new Edition of the whole ordered to put them together, (which is all the alteration I have made) although in their first and single publishing some other came between.