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…

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 Psal. 1. 3. Unless we are partakers of the Grace administered in the Ordinances, we cannot flourish in a fruitful Profession. The outward participation of them is common unto Hypocrites, that bear some leaves, but neither grow like the Cedar, nor bear fruit like the Palm-tree. So the Apostle prays for Believers, that Christ may dwell in their Hearts by Faith, that they may be rooted and grounded in love, Ephes. 3. 17. Rooted, built up, and established, Col. 2. 7. The want hereof is the cause that we have so many fruitless Professors; they have entered the Courts of God by Profession, but were never planted in his House by Faith and Love. Let us not deceive our selves herein; we may be entered into the Church, and made partakers of the outward Privileges of it, and not be so planted in it as to flourish in Grace and Fruitfulness.

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