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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91944	The figg-less figg-tree: or, The doome of a barren and unfruitful profession lay'd open. In an exposition upon that parable: a certain man had a figg-tree planted in his vineyard, &c. Luke 13. 6,7,8,9,10. / By Nehemiah Rogers, a minister of the Gospel of Christ.	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1823; Thomason E973_1; ESTC R203371	458,183	541

Isa 1.14 24 7 13 43 24. Amos 2.13 Mich. 6.3 24 7 13 43 24. Amos 2.13 God complaines of their burthen they are cumbersome unto him he finds a pressure under them he is dishonoured by them and cannot long endure it Sixthly The Dressers of the Vineyard are burthened and cumbered by them Christ the Principal Dresser laments the barrennesse of Jerusalem Luke 19.41 Math. 23.34 Joh. 11.38 Luke 19.41 Math. 23.24 Joh. 11.38 Rom. 9.1 2 10 16. Heb. 13.17 Christ groaned as it seems under the Jews malice And the under-Dressers the Ministers of the Gospel they complain of it Rom. 9.1 2 10 16. Heb. 13.17 They are blamed shamed and discredited by them For as the thriving of the Flock is the glory of the Shepherd and the flourishing and fruitfulnesse of the Trees the praise of the Gardiner so on the contrary when things thrive not under their hands they suffer by it The Cynick spying a Boy unmannerly did strike his Master that did teach him So the Scribes and Pharisees told Christ of his Disciples fault as if it had tended to his Disgrace Thus do men of this Generation they lay the blame of barrennesse upon the Dressers Back as if it were onely their fault that the Tree is unfruitfull And so much let serve for the explication and confirmation of the Point Application followes Use 1 You may from hence be rightly informed who they are at this Day in Court City and Country that are the greatest troublers of Church and State and with whom the Vineyard of the Lord is most cumbred In the Primitive times the Christians were charged with all the troubles and calamities that did befall the people See my Exposition on the Parable of a Friend coming to his Friend at Mid-Night Pag. 239. If Sword Famine or Pestilence were amongst them or that Nilus did not keep her wonted bounds then Christianos ad Leones the Christians were the Cause thereof they must be cast unto the Lyons But this did not begin with them nor with them did it end Let Pharoah be asked the question Who cumbers Aegypt He will tell you that it is this Moses and Aaron the Messengers and Ministers of God they are the Incendiaries and Causes of all these Mutinies and Murmurings in the Kingdome Not Pharaoh nor his Sorcerers they must be over-looked Let Ahab be asked who it was that troubled Israel Exod. 5.4 5. he will tell you strait that it was not Ahab nor the Prophets of Baal but banished Elijah 1 King 18.17 that busie fellow that would be filling Peoples head 's with needlesse fears he it was that troubled all Let Amaziah the high Priest of Bethel be enquired of Who troubles the Court he will tell you that it was not Amaziah nor the flattering Sycophants of Court but Amos the Prophet and such like they conspire against the King's Life Amos 7.19 16. and will be prying into State-affaires nor will the Court be quiet till such be benished the Kings presence and forbid his Chappel Let Haman be demanded who it was that cumbered the Kings Provinces and he shall tell you that the Jews are they a People refractory to all good Laws Esth 3.8 they would not pay their Tax and Tribute nor was it for the King's profit to suffer them to live but for himself and his Comrades they aimed at the filling of his Treasury Ask once more Who troubles the City and you shall have some Rulers and others to wink at themselves and point at Paul and Silas Act. 16.20 and tell you that they are the men that trouble the City yea that turn the World upside down Nor shall some Tertullus be wanting Cap. 17.6 who with much Eloquence and Learning will charge Paul to be a pestilent fellow yea a botch or pestilence it self Acts 24.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a mover of sedition amongst the Jewes throughout the World c. And if you enquire of the Jews concerning the point in hand they will charge Christ himself to be an enemy to Caesar Luke 23.2 forbidding paying of Tribute to him and warn Pilate not to let him go for then he would shew himself no friend to Caesar Joh. 19.20 As it hath bin thus in all Ages so it is now in this last Age of the World Who are most charged as the Authors of our Churches miseries and Nations calamities but those who are most innocent Serpents and Draggons Woolves and Doggs are past-by and the Sheep and Lambs of the Flock Holy and Religious persons they are those that stand charged with England's troubles Oh! that we had more men of Elijah's spirit then the ungodly Ahabs of the World should be told to their faces It is Thou and thy Fathers House that troubles Israel Then should you that are of wicked Religion or of wicked Life 1 King 13.18 heart it with with both your ears that it is for your Idolatryes your Witch-crafts and Adulteries your drunkennesse Whoredoms and Blasphemies your mocking and deriding of godtinesse your despising of God's Ministers and persecuting of his Messengers c. that hath brought all these great evils upon us But albeit there want these in this World that dare tell you this yet there will not be wanting a Judge in another World who shall tell it you and prove it to your consciences that you were the Aehans that troubled Israel and for your so doing God will trouble you Jos 7.25 1 Thes 1.6 and it is a righteous thing with him so to do 2 Thes 1.6 Use 2 In the mean time let all such know as live unprofitably or wickedly and lewdly within the pale of the Church or that bring forth no fruit conducible to the Owners profit and common good of the Vineyard that they are no other than a burthen to the Earth that bears them and cumbersome to all that are about them It were happy if the injury of a wicked Liver could be confined to his own bosome that he only should fare the worse for his sins Ecel 9.18 But it is otherwise One Sinner destroyeth much good Eccles 9. ult Thou art not onely hurtful to thy self that is the least part of thy illness but likewise hurtful to the Place the Town Country City Family where thou inhabitest As Achan was to all Israel For his Trespasse in the accursed thing wrath fell on all the Congregation of Israel That man perished not alone in his Iniquity Jos 22.20 Jos 22.20 He is an ill Member for which all the Body fares the worse All fare the worse for thee Isa 14.20 that are about thee Read Isa 14.20 Thou hast destroyed thy Land and laid it desolate and apply it to thy self It is said of some that they are kind men harmlesse Souls As they do no good so they do no harm to their neighbours and that they are enemies to none but themselves c.