Noosell Thyself With Christ

I bought a modern typeface print of William Tyndale's New Testament several weeks ago . I am enjoying it . W.T. has a long Prologue To The Epistle To The Romans . It is 19 pages in length . On the 15th page I will quote an extract regarding predestination as it relates to babes in Christ .

But follow thou the order of this epistle , and noosell thyself with Christ , and learn to understand what the law and the gospel mean , and the office of both two , that thou mayest in the one know thyself , and how that thou hast of thyself no strength , but to sin ; and in the other the grace of Christ . And then see thou fight against sin and the flesh as the first seven chapters teach thee . After that when thou art come to the 8th chapter , and art under the cross and suffering of tribulations , the necessity of predestination will wax sweet and thou shalt well feel how precious a thing it is . For except thou have borne the cross of adversity and temptation , and hast felt thyself brought unto the very brim of desperation , yea and unto hell gates , thou canst never meddle with the sentence of predestination without thine own harm , and without secret wrath and grudging inwardly against God , for otherwise it shall not be possible for thee to think that God is righteous and just . Therefore must Adam be well mortified and the fleshly wit brought utterly to nought , ere that thou mayest away with this thing , and drink so strong wine . Take heed therefore unto thyself , that thou drink not wine while thou art yet but a-suckling . For every learning hath her time , measure and age , and in Christ is there a certain childhood , in which a man must be content with milk for a season , until he wax strong and grow up a perfect man in Christ , and be able to eat of more strong meat .

 

Tyndale the trailblazer has been a neglected hero of the Faith . I think he has been underappreciated among Calvinists as well . Dr. Lloyd-Jones called him the first Puritan .

 

"The necessity of predestination will wax sweet." Hmm , sounds Calvinistic to me . Yup , William Tyndale was a Calvinist .

 

Noosell thyself with Christ = get real close and intimate with the Lord .

SP : As usual your thoughts run contrary to the intent of the writer ( or poster ) . Tyndale was not complaining in the manner of Job .

 

Yes , it seems to be .