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Gods husbandry
Gods husbandry: the first part. Tending to show the difference betwixt the hypocrite and the true-hearted Christian. As it was delivered in certain sermons, and is now published by William Whately, preacher of the Word of God in Banbury in OxfordshireGods husbandry: the first part. Tending to shew the difference betwixt the hypocrite and the true-hearted Christian. As it was deliuered in certaine sermons, and is now published by William Whately, preacher of the Word of God in Banbury in Oxfordsheire
London: printed by Bernard Alsop and Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1622
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 when confessest thou? Only when fear of heart and heavy crosses compel thee:1 or voluntarily of thine own accord, without such dragging (though perhaps more earnestly, when the Lord doth please to quicken thy pace)? if in the former manner, false; if in the latter, true is thy confession.
And when confessest thou? Onely when feare of heart and heauy crosses compell thee:1 or voluntarily of thine owne accord, without such dragging (though perhaps more earnestly, when the Lord doth please to quicken thy pace)? if in the former maner, false; if in the latter, true is thy confession.
- 1Voluntarily, or by compulsionVoluntarily, or by compulsiō
Again, thou hast mended many faults.1 But is there not some one or other thing, which thou hast no mind to amend? which thou thinkest thou needest not, or canst not mend? which thou dost not, by daily calling upon God, and travelling with thine own heart, strive to amend? If there be any such exempt place for sin in thy life, I pronounce thee an hypocrite. But if thou have given God the full possession of thy soul and life, desiring and striving for nothing more, than wholly to banish and expel, and cast out Satan, I pronounce thee a true Christian.
Againe, thou hast mended many faults.1 But is there not some one or other thing, which thou hast no mind to amend? which thou thinkest thou needest not, or canst not mend? which thou dost not, by daily calling vpon God, and trauelling with thine owne heart, striue to amend? If there be any such exempt place for sinne in thy life, I pronounce thee an hypocrite. But if thou haue giuen God the full possession of thy soule and life, desiring and striuing for nothing more, than wholly to banish and expell, and cast out Satan, I pronounce thee a true Christian.