Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

THIS flourishing is compared to the Palm-tree, and the Growth of the Cedar. The Palm-tree is of the greatest Verdure, Beauty, and Fruitfulness, and the Cedar of the greatest and longest growth of any Trees. So are the Righteous compared to the Palm-tree, for the Beauty of Profession, and Fruitfulness in Obedience; and unto the Cedar for a continual constant growth and increase in Grace. Thus it is with all that are righteous, unless it be from their own sinful neglect, as it is with many in this day. They are hereon rather like the Shrubs and Heaths in the Wilderness, which see not when Good cometh, than like the Palm-tree, or the Cedars of Lebanon. And hereby do Men what lies in them, obscure the Glory of Christ and his Kingdom, as well as disquiet their own Souls.

THIS flourishing is compared to the Palm-tree, and the Growth of the Cedar. The Palm-tree is of the greatest Verdure, Beauty, and Fruitfulness, and the Cedar of the greatest and longest growth of any Trees. So are the Righteous compared to the Palm-tree, for the Beauty of Profession, and Fruitfulness in Obedience; and unto the Cedar for a continual constant growth and encrease in Grace. Thus it is with all that are righteous, unless it be from their own sinful neglect, as it is with many in this day. They are hereon rather like the Shrubs and Heaths in the Wilderness, which see not when Good cometh, than like the Palm-tree, or the Cedars of Lebanon. And hereby do Men what lies in them, obscure the Glory of Christ and his Kingdom, as well as disquiet their own Souls.

THE words that follow, ver. 13. They that be planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the Courts of our God, are not distinctive of some from ⟨p. 29⟩other, as though some only of the flourishing Righteous were so planted; but they are descriptive of them all, with an addition of the way and means whereby they are caused so to grow and flourish. And this is their Implantation in the House of the Lord; that is, in the Church, which is the seat of all the means of Spiritual Life, both as unto growth and flourishing, which God is pleased to grant unto Believers. To be planted in the House of the Lord, is to be fixed and rooted in the Grace communicated by the Ordinances of Divine Worship. Unless we are planted in the house of the Lord, we cannot flourish in his Courts: see