The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandmanThe husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman

2. The second lesson the Husbandman learns in his Orchard, is from the Planting of his Trees, and hereby he understands the Nature of regeneration, Rom. 6.5. For if we have been planted together, in the likeness of his death. He sees the Crab-Tree stock must be cut off, and then into it, must the Scion be engrafted and inoculated, before it can be an Apple in his Orchard: Whereby the Husbandman learns, that the old man in him, though it cannot be stocked up by the roots in this life, yet it must be cut off by compunction, humiliation, and mortification; and the new man engrafted into his heart by vivification, faith, and renovation: Whereby he concludes, I must live in another, if I would live for ever, Gal. 2.20. I am crucified ⟨p. 167⟩with Christ: Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ that lives in me. As if the Crab-Tree stock should cry out, I am cut off; yet I live, but not I, but the Scion that is planted in me. Old Adam cries, I am wounded and killed, nevertheless I live; yet not I now, but Jesus Christ, the second Adam, lives in me. And he sees, that till this work of engrafting be over, no fruits are to be seen but Crabs. And thence he gathers, that till that change be wrought within, no man can bring forth fruit acceptable unto God: All his best works are but mere Crabs; or the fruit cannot be better then the Tree; and therefore he is restless, till this work be done in him; He reads, he inquires, he prays, he hears, he is never quiet, until he also be renewed in the spirit of his mind, and be made like that Tree, Jerem. 17.8. planted by the waters, whose leaf shall be green, neither shall it cease from yielding fruit.

2. The second lesson the Husbandman learns in his Orchard, is from the Planting of his Trees, and hereby he understands the Nature af regeneration, Rom. 6.5. For if we have been planted together, in the likeness of his death. He sees the Crab-Tree stock must be cut off, and then into it, must the Scion be ingraffed and inoculated, before it can be an Apple in his Orchard: Whereby the Husbandman learns, that the old man in him, though it cannot be stockt up by the rootes in this life, yet it must be cut off by compunction, humiliation, and mortification; and the new man ingraffed into his heart by vivification, faith, and renovation: Whereby he concludes, I must live in another, if I would live for ever,