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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.
First then, as the body,1 so the soul must enjoy the benefit of a good constitution. Now as the good constitution of the body consists in a right mixing together, and tempering of the four first and chief qualities; so the good constitution of the soul standeth in a right and due ordering of the principal faculties of the mind towards the different objects thereof: I mean, the judgement, the will, and the affections: when the judgement entertaineth an high and excellent esteem of God, and things divine, but a mean and base esteem of ones self, and all things earthly: when the will most vehemently and earnestly inclineth it self to God, the chief Good, and carefully withdraweth it self from feigned or inferior good things: when the affections are inflamed towards God and heaven, and cooled towards earth, and the things of the earth; This is a sweet and happy constitution of ⟨p. 146⟩the soul: and if this constitution be not preserved by a diligent watching over the moving and working of our minds, and a daily striving to pull them from things below, and set them on things above, there is no possibility of growing: but if this constitution be carefully preserved, the means following will infallibly procure a proceeding in all the fruits of good living.
First then, as the body,1 so the soule must inioy the benefit of a good constitution. Now as the good constitution of the body consists in a right mixing together, and tempering of the foure first and chiefe qualities; so the good constitution of the soule standeth in a right and due ordering of the principall faculties of the minde towards the different obiects thereof: I meane, the iudgement, the will, and the affections: when the iudgement entertaineth an high and excellent esteeme of God, and things diuine, but a meane and base esteeme of ones selfe, and all things earthly: when the will most vehemently and earnestly inclineth it selfe to God, the chiefe Good, and carefully withdraweth it selfe from fained or inferiour good things: when the affections are inflamed towards God and heauen, and cooled towards earth, and the things of the earth; This is a sweet and happy constitution of ⟨p. 146⟩