I am offering to you a Delicate Fruit, gathered from the Tree of Life. Indeed, a Righteous man, is in the Proverb that affords the ⟨image ?⟩Sentence now before us, compared unto the Tree of Life; And this, because of the Blessed Fruit which is to be gathered from such a man; because of the Blessed Life, which is Communicated in and with his Fruit. Plutarch reports, That the Babylonians fetched more than Three Hundred Commodities out of that One Tree, the Palm-tree; for which, it was a Tree highly & justly honoured among them. A Righteous man desires nothing so much, as to be a Fruitful Man. He counts it the greatest Glory imaginable, to Glorify God by bringing Forth […] Fruit. But then, what is it, that •e aims at in bringing forth his Fruit? What; but the Winning of Souls. The Winning of Souls, is now commended unto us, as the Desire and Study of a Just man; and it is with an Intimation, that he will be a Wise man, who will be such a Just man.
I am offering to you a Delicate Fruit, gathered from the Tree of Life. Indeed, a Righ•eous man, is in the Proverb that affords the ⟨image ?⟩Sentence now before us, compared unto the Tree of Life; And this, because of the Blessed Fruit which is to be gathered from such a man; because of the Blessed Life, which is Communicated in and with his Fruit. Plutarch reports, That the Babylonians fetch'd more than Three Hundred Commodities out of that One Tree, the Palm-tree; for which, it was a Tree highly & justly honoured among them. A Righteous man desires nothing so much, as to be a Fruitful Man. He counts it the greatest Glory imaginable, to Glorify God by bringing Forth 〈…〉 Fruit. But then, what is it, that •e aims at in bringing forth his Fruit? What; but the Winning of Souls. The Winning of Souls, is now commended unto us, as the Desire and Study of a Just man; and it is with an Intimation, that he will be a Wise man, who will be such a Just man.
