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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.
that is, in much musing to resolve himself of the truth of the Word, by finding the powerful operation of it in himself daily; and he that hath not a foundation, may (if he will) know that he hath none, by his neglect of this labour and pains, to lay it in his soul: but faith doth apply as well as consent. It is manifest, that our justifying faith is a putting on of Christ Jesus, an eating and drinking of him, a receiving of him, that is, an applying of him to every mans self: for how can either food nourish, or apparel keep warm, if it be not applied? and how should Christ profit a man, if he be not made his own?
that is, in much musing to resolue himselfe of the truth of the Word, by finding the powerfull operation of it in himselfe daily; and he that hath not a foundation, may (if he will) know that hee hath none, by his neglect of this labour and paines, to lay it in his soule: but faith doth apply as well as consent. It is manifest, that our iustifying faith is a putting on of Christ Iesus, an eating and drinking of him, a receiuing of him, that is, an applying of him to euery mans selfe: for how can either food nourish, or apparrell keepe warme, if it be not applyed? and how should Christ profit a man, if hee be not made his owne?
Now the hypocrite also seemeth to apply the promise of the Gospel,1 and Christ, and his benefits offered therein, even unto himself in special, being strongly conceited, that Christ is his Saviour, and that God is his God, and that he doth rest and stay himself upon God, and upon Christ for his own salvation; and this he doth sometimes so violently, that he thinketh himself to make no doubt of his being saved, being in this matter also given over to a strong delusion, to believe a lye. Surely the stony ground could never have gone away rejoicing as they did, if they had not persuaded ⟨p. 45⟩themselves of their own particular welfare, and had not made full reckoning to be made partakers of the benefits of that doctrine, which they did embrace. And did not the Jews in the eighth of John, boast with great boasting, that they had one Father, even God? And can any man doubt, but that Ananias and Sapphira did at first persuade themselves, that they should be saved by Christ as well as others? But let us see the difference then, which stands in these things. The hypocrite,