The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

2. Christ is resembled to a Vine, John 15.1. The Vine (as Pliny saith) is the noblest of plants; to this is Christ compared. Oh what lovely clusters grow upon this Vine! the fruits of Justification, Sanctification, &c. These bunches of grapes hang upon the Lord Jesus. We are beholding to this Vine, Hos. 14.8. From me is thy fruit found^*; ⟨p. 344⟩nay, Christ excels the Vine. For, 1. Though there be many things in the Vine tree besides the fruit useful, the leaves, the gum, the ashes of the Vine^*; yet the wood of the Vine is unuseful, Ezek. 15.3. Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? now herein Christ is more lovely than the Vine-tree; There is nothing in Christ but is useful. We have need of his humane nature; we have need of his divine nature; we have need of his offices, influences, privileges; there is nothing in this Vine we can be without. Oh how blessed are the branches of this Vine. The Virgin Mary was saved, not by bearing the Vine, but by being engrafted into the Vine.

2. Christ is resembled to a Vine, John 15.1. The Vine (as Pliny saith) is the noblest of plants; to this is Christ compared. Oh what lovely clusters grow upon this Vine! the fruits of Justification, Sanctification, &c. These bunches of grapes hang upon the Lord Jesus. We are beholding to this Vine, Hos. 14.8. From me is thy fruit found^*; ⟨p. 344⟩nay, Christ excels the Vine. For, 1. Though there be many things in the Vine tree besides the fruit useful, the leaves, the gumme, the ashes of the Vine