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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 10 › Verse 1 › Israel is an empty Vine.
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.
Fifthly, If there be grace, it is the Divine Nature its self, and cannot that bear fruit? It is an evil in a Vine to have but a little moisture, to shoot forth in leaves and bear no fruit; yea but what is that unto Grace that is the Divine Nature its self, the most glorious thing in the world? ⟨p. 305⟩Therefore for Christians to be without fruit is an exceeding great evil, Doest thou know what fruit is? One gracious action that comes from the sap of the Root that is in Christ, it is more worth than Heaven and Earth; any one gracious Act (I say) it is more worth than Heaven and Earth, Oh the fruit of the Saints is fruit to eternity, and to be without this fruit must needs be a great evil, those that are empty and without fruit (you know) they are said in John 15. to be but as branches,1 not branches, they that bear no fruit are said to be but as a branch, and then such a branch as must be cut off, God will cut them off, cut off those branches,2 he will cut them off from their profession and suffer them to fall so as they shall not continue in their eternal profession, and they shall wither, he will curse their very common gifts that they have.
Fiftly, If there be grace, it is the Divine Nature its self, and cannot that bear fruit? It is an evil in a Vine to have but a little moisture, to shoot forth in leaves and bear no fruit; yea but what is that unto Grace that is the Divine Nature its self, the most glorious thing in the world? ⟨p. 305⟩Therefore for Christians to be without fruit is an exceeding great evil, Doest thou know what fruit is? One gracious action that comes from the sap of the Root that is in Christ, it is more worth than Heaven and Earth; any one gracious Act (I say) it is more worth than Heaven and Earth, Oh the fruit of the Saints is fruit to eternity, and to be without this fruit must needs be a great evil, those that are empty and without fruit (you know) they are said in John 15. to be but as branches,