Gods husbandry

that is to say, unless the serious consideration of the love and goodness of God, showed in these two; and of the hatefulness and filthiness of sin, manifested in the former of them, do leave so deep an impression in your souls that here-hence you grow both resolute and able (in some degree) to cast away all the former lusts of your ignorance, and now to turn your feet into the paths of righteousness, to fight against all the corrupt lusts of your hearts, to labour to forbear all wicked actions, to endeavour to plant in your souls all virtues, and to be abundant in religious, merciful, just, temperate, and all other godly actions, that you may show forth the virtues of him, that hath translated you from darkness to light, and be holy in all good conversation, even as he is holy. Urge and press your selves therefore to this fruitfulness, and make the constant carriage of your whole man, inward and outward even depose for you, that yon are truly engrafted into the true vine. This fruitfulness shall arise for you in the day of tentation, as it did for Job and enable you to stand for your uprightness against all accusations of men and devils, and against all fears and doubtings of your own hearts. When a man is cast ⟨p. 138⟩into the furnace of adversity, then will the leaves be blown off (as in the winter they be from trees) & then if the grapes of a good conversation do not lye by him, to witness that he was a true branch in Christs body, nothing will remain for him but horror and amazement, and a fearful expectation of vengeance to befall him for all his shows. Be you therefore prepared for the day of trial, which will surely come upon all the inhabitants of the earth. Strive to be fruitful: stir up your selves to consider seriously of the Lords infinite bounty in Christ: show to your selves the sweetness and goodness of the divine Majesty, in that work so admirable & inconceivably gracious. Provoke your selves to make high account of him, & to love him with the most vehement and fervent of all love: that your hearts being knit-unto him, and set upon him, you may even for his sake set your selves to know the good, & the evil, that pleaseth and displeaseth him, to shun the last, & embrace the first.

that is to say, vnlesse the serious consideration of the loue and goodnesse of God, shewed in these two; and of the hatefulnesse and filthinesse of sinne, manifested in the former of them, doe leaue so deepe an impression in your soules that here-hence you grow both resolute and able (in some degree) to cast away all the former lusts of your ignorance, and now to turne your feete into the pathes of righteousnesse, to fight against all the corrupt lusts of your hearts, to labour to forbeare all wicked actions, to endeauor to plant in your soules all vertues, and to be abundant in religious, mercifull, iust, temperate, and all other godly actions, that you may shew forth the vertues of him, that hath translated you from darkenesse to light, and be holy in all good conuersation, euen as hee is holy. Vrge and presse your selues therefore to this fruitfulnesse, and make the constant carriage of your whole man, inward and outward euen depose for you, that yon are truly ingraffed into the true vine. This fruitfulnesse shall arise for you in the day of tentation, as it did for Iob and inable you to stand for your vprightnesse against all accusations of men and diuels, and against all feares and doubtings of your owne hearts. When a man is cast