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The returning backslider, or, A commentary upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy…The returning backslider, or, A commentarie upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy…
The returning backslider, or, A commentary upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy of the prophet Hosea Wherein is showed the large extent of Gods free mercy, even unto the most miserable forlorn and wretched sinners that may be, upon their humiliation and repentance. Preached by that learned and judicious divine, Dr. Sibbs, late preacher to the honourable society of Gray's Inn, and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by his own permission before his death.The returning backslider, or, A commentarie upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy of the prophet Hosea Wherein is shewed the large extent of Gods free mercy, even unto the most miserable forlorne and wretched sinners that may be, upon their humiliation and repentance. Preached by that learned and judicious divine, Dr. Sibbs, late preacher to the honourable society of Grayes Inne, and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by his owne permission before his death.
London: printed by George for George Edwards, 1639
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.
They shall grow as the Vine.
The Vine we know is a fruitful plant:1 as we read in the Judges: The Olive and the Vine would not forsake their sweetness to be a king: for it is said by them, that they revive God and man, being pleasing to them. So every true Christian is like a vine for fruitfulness, he is a tree of Righteousness, a plant of Gods own planting, a vine that spends himself in bearing fruit.
The Uine we know is a fruitfull plant:1 as we reade in the Judges: The Olive and the Vine would not forsake their sweetnesse to be a king: for it is said by them, that they revive God and man, being pleasing to them. So every true Christian is like a vine for fruitfullnesse, he is a tree of Righteousnesse, a plant of Gods owne planting, a vine that spends himselfe in bearing fruit.
- 1The Vine is fruitful, so Christians. Jud. 9.9, 13.The Ʋine is fruitfull, so Christians. Iud. 9.9, 13.
Again, as it is fruitful, so it is exceeding fruitful, abounding in fruit, so Christians are vines not only for a little fruit that they bear: but because they are abundantly fruitful, which is premised: that if they do as they should do; they shall be vines abundant in the work of the Lord: