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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.
But exercise is needful to get a stomach;1 and the souls exercise is to set it self on work about good duties, to stir up frequent acts of virtue within it self, often bending his heart in love to God-ward, melting it in compassion toward the afflicted, enlarging it in congratulation to those of Gods Saints that are in good estate, and so in other virtues, especially when we have been taught any good work in the Word, to watch the next opportunity of doing that duty, and to set our selves, for some good space of time together, principally to look to the practice of some principal virtue, the love and fear of God, joy in the holy Ghost, godly sorrow, confidence in God, and the like. This addressing ones self to the practice of good duties, will beget a desire of grace. And this is the second thing ⟨p. 159⟩necessary to cause an increase of grace.
But exercise is needfull to get a stomacke;1 and the soules exercise is to set it selfe on worke about good duties, to stirre vp frequent acts of vertue within it selfe, often bending his heart in loue to God-ward, melting it in compassion toward the afflicted, inlarging it in congratulation to those of Gods Saints that are in good estate, and so in other vertues, especially when we haue been taught any good worke in the Word, to watch the next opportunity of doing that duty, and to set our selues, for some good space of time together, principally to looke to the practice of some principall vertue, the loue and feare of God, ioy in the holy Ghost, godly sorrow, confidence in God, and the like. This addressing ones selfe to the practice of good duties, will beget a desire of grace. And this is the second thing ⟨p. 159⟩necessary to cause an increase of grace.
- 12. Exercise, that is, a setting our selves to practise what we learn.2. Exercise, that is, a setting our selues to practise what we learne.