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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 24-27
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.
Now, If any should ask, What mean you by good fruits? Or what fruits are good? I shall close the point in hand with an Answer to these Questions.
These good fruits considered in reference to their efficient cause, are called fruits of the spirit (Gal. 5.22.) and in reference to the matter of them, they are called fruits of righteousness (Phil. 1.11.) but in reference to the beginning or occasion of them, they are called fruits meet for repentance (Matth. 3.8.) In general, all that is good fruit, which is conformable to the Word of God; whether it be the conformity of our natures to it, in conversion; or the conformity of our ways to it, in our daily conversation.
These good fruits considered in reference to their efficient cause, are called fruits of the spirit (Gal. 5.22.) and in reference to the matter of them, they are called fruits of righteousness (Phil. 1.11.) but in reference to the beginning or occasion of them, they are called fruits meet for repentance (Matth. 3.8.) In general, all that is good fruit, which is conformable to the Word of God; whether it be the conformity of our natures to it, in conversion; or the conformity of our wayes to it, in our daily conversation.
More particularly, these good fruits are of two sorts: