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The barren tree a sermon preached at Pauls cross October 26. 1623 /The barren tree a sermon preached at Pauls crosse October 26. 1623 /
The barren tree a sermon preached at Pauls cross October 26. 1623 / by Tho. Adams.The barren tree a sermon preached at Pauls crosse October 26. 1623 / by Tho. Adams.
London: printed by Aug. Mathevves for John Grismand, 1623London: printed by Aug. Matheuues for Iohn Grismand, 1623
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.
THE BARREN TREE.
LUKE. Cap. 13. Vers. 7. Then said he to the Dresser of his Vineyard; Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this Fig-tree, and find none: cut it down, why cumbreth it the ground?
LVKE. Cap. 13. Vers. 7. Then said hee to the Dresser of his Vineyard; Behold, these three yeares I come seeking fruit on this Fig-tree, and find none: cut it downe, why cumbreth it the ground?
News is brought to Christ, of a certain Judgement, which was not more Pilates, then Gods, upon some Galileans; who, while they were sacrificing, were sacrificed; their blood being mingled with the blood of the beasts, ⟨p. 2⟩on the same altar. Lest this should be wholly attributed to Pilates cruelty, without due respect had of the omnipotent Justice, he samples it with another; of eighteen men miscarrying by the fall of a Tower. No Pilate threw down this, here was no humane Executioner: the matter of their death was mortar and stones; these bad no purpose to kill them. This therefore, must be an invisible hand, working by an insensible creature: the Instrument may be divers, the Judge is the same.
NEwes is brought to Christ, of a certaine Iudgement, which was not more Pilates, then Gods, vpon some Galileans; who, while they were sacrificing, were sacrificed; their blood being mingled with the blood of the beasts,