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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.
CHAP. VIII. Containing a second use of the point, stirring up the servants of God to an holy longing for death.
CHAP. VIII. Containing a second vse of the poynt, stirring vp the seruants of God to an holy longing for death.
Use 2 SEE here […] how great cause we have to follow the Apostle Paul, 1and to long that we were once dissolved, and perfectly united unto Christ, that (as he prays for us) being where he is, and seeing his glory, we might be perfectly like him, in a spotless purity and holiness. Impatient folks are many times so tormented with worldly crosses, (made so troublesome unto them alone by their own folly and pride, whereby they neglect to see God, and to stoop unto him in crosses) that they are even altogether weary of their lives because of them, and our of a kind of stomachful sullenness against God, as once Jonah, or else a feeble sinking under the burden of misery, as once Elijah; they even think with themselves, I would I were dead, and are bold to trouble God with that unsavoury petition of making an end of their days, that they may be rid of their crosses: which they have neither patience enough to bear for the present, nor hope enough to look for a good issue out of, for the time to come.
Vse 2 SEE heere 〈…〉 how great cause wee haue to follow the Apostle Paul, 1and to long that wee were once dissolned, and perfectly vnited vnto Christ, that (as hee prayes for vs) being where he is, and seeing his glory, we might be perfectly like him, in a spotlesse purity and holinesse. Impatient folkes are many times so tormented with worldly crosses, (made so troublesome vnto them alone by their owne folly and pride, whereby they neglect to see God, and to stoope vnto him in crosses) that they are euen altogether weary of their liues because of them, and our of a kind of stomackfull sullennesse against God, as once Ionas, or else a feeble sinking vnder the burthen of misery, as once Eliah; they euen thinke with themselues, I would I were dead, and are bold to trouble God with that vnsauoury petition of making an end of their daies, that they may be rid of their crosses: which they haue neither patience enough to beare for the present, nor hope enough to looke for a good issue out of, for the time to come.