Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75800	The spirituall use of an orchard, or garden of fruit-trees. Set forth in divers similitudes betweene naturall and spirituall fruit-trees, in their natures, and ordering, according to Scripture and experience. The second impression; with the addition of many similitudes. By Ra: Austen, author of the first part. By Ra: Austen, author of the first part.	Austen, Ralph, d. 1676.	1657 (1657)	Wing A4236; Thomason E915_8; ESTC R208885	172,355	230

bring forth fruits seasonably pag. 161. 81. The godly are profitable not only one to another but the wicked also fare the better for them pag. 163. 82. When men are slow in the duties of obedience God is patient towards them in the use of all good meanes waits for their fruitfulnesse pag. 164. 83. Vnregenerate persons of themselves cannot come to Christ nor bring forth one good fruit pag. 166. 84. Some Christians cheifly pursue some particular duties belonging to them and neglect others pag. 168. 85. While persons remaine in an unregenerate state all the meanes of grace is unprofitable to them pag. 170. 86. Christians by walking holily and fruitfully they bring much honour to God but if otherwise dishonour pag. 171. 87. The same things which are blessings to the Godly are curses to the wicked because of their different Principles pag. 172. 88. The best of Gods Children are guiltie of many sins and infirmities in their conversations pag. 174. 89. Carnall persons are as forward and zealous in the waies of sin as usually the godly are in the waies of holinesse pag. 176. 90. The Conditions of the people of God are much different yet God careth for them all pag. 178. 91. True and faithfull Ministers of the Gospell do diligently looke into the state of their people and deale with them accordingly pag. 179 92. God discovereth a speciall care of and love unto those of his people whose Judgment and waies concurre with his designe in their generation pag. 183. 93. God is a long time in calling the Gentiles and implanting them into Christ according to his purpose and promises pag. 187. 94. Externall Vniformity in the Churches of Christ is of small accompt with him in respect of Vnity and spirituall worship pag. 191. 95. God many times makes use of wicked and unregenerate persons for the preservation and good of his owne children pag. 197. 96. God in his infinite wisdome and goodnesse observes the fittest times in all his dispensations towards his people pag. 199. 97. Jesus Christ gives forth as constant a supply of all grace to the meanest of his people as to those who are most eminent pag. 201. 98. The people of God bring glory to him profit and edification to the body of Christ in divers respects according to the diversity of the Gifts Graces and operations of the spirit of God in them pag. 2â—2 99. There is a continuall secret supply of strength from Christ to every believer in time of desertion and temptation to preserve them from totall falling away pag. 205. 100. True Christians do communicate of their good things as freely to the poore as to the rich pag. 207. THE SPIRITUALL USE OF A GARDEN of FRUIT-TREES The first Observation in Nature THE Husbandman makes choice of what wild Plants he pleaseth to bring into his Orchards there to Graft and order to fruit-bearing from yeare to yeare He leaves other plants in the Woods and waste grounds he lets them alone and meddles not with them but takes and leaves these or those as pleaseth himselfe This is a Similitude of the State of Spirituall Fruit-trees and shadowes out unto us this Proposition That God from all eternity made choice of what Spirituall Plants he pleased to plant in his Garden the Church Proposition Shadowed and refused others God in his eternall decree chose some persons and refused others as his word clearely manifests he chose some wild plants here and there a few to plant in his Orchard to order to fruit-bearing and let others alone to grow wild and bring forth their naturall fruits and this upon his own free will and pleasure without any foresight of faith repentance good works or any thing in us This the Apostle shews Eph. 1.4 He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world Vers 5. according to the good pleasure of his will before they had done good or evill Rom. 9.13 I have loved Jacob and hated Esau and Jo. 13.18 I know whom I have chosen And our Saviour tells us Joh. 15.16 I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remaine The Husbandman lets other Plants alone to grow wild without the wall of his Orchard Many wicked men and women in the world which were passed by in his decree and therefore are not brought into his Church nor Ingrafted into Christ who in their generations bring forth sower bitter and poysonous fruits Rom. 9.18 He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardneth That is He giveth grace to those whom he hath chosen and denies it to others leaving them to themselves Vse Esay 61.3 The Consideration of this should be a strong and continuall motive to all those who have made their Calling and Election sure being perswaded upon good grounds that they are Trees of righteousnesse of the Lords Planting to praise and admire the free grace of God who hath chosen them to be his adopted children ingrafting them into Christ and planting them in his Garden to bring forth pleasant fruits to himselfe We were all of us wild Plants as bad by nature as the worst in the world and God hath made choice of us and left others How should this make us admire his rich and free grace in Christ to us and to shew forth his praise in our Conversations The Apostle tells us this is the very end wherefore we are Chosen 1 Pet. 2.9 Yee are a chosen Generation a Royall Priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darknesse into his marvelous light There was no moving Cause why the mysticall Husbandman should make Choice of us rather than of others as there is of materiall Plants The Husbandman looks upon their straightnesse and fitnesse in other respects it may be wherefore he chuseth them before others But the mysticall Husbandman hath all the grounds and Causes of choice within himselfe Eph. 1.5 according to the good pleasure of his will Let this therefore teach us and stirre us up to bring forth all Vse 2 good fruits unto him in abundance who hath so abounded in love and mercy towards us and hath let out his free grace in chusing of us And although we cannot recompence the Husbandman or make him the richer by our fruits yet we may please him and honour him thereby Herein is my Father glorified that ye beare much fruit Joh 15.2 The second Observation in Nature THe Husbandman doth order his young fruit-trees with more tendernesse and gentlenesse then such as are strong and well growne trees because such while they are small and tender are in more danger of breaking and brusing and other hurts then they are afterwards So that besides the great Wall or Common fence about the Orchard he makes a more speciall fence with Bushes Stakes or the like about each of them and gives

them more choice nourishment by often watring them with good water that they may grow and come on the faster This is another Similitude and shadowes out unto us this Proposition That the dispensations of God towards weak Christians Proposition Shadowed are more gentle then towards such as are grown strong The mysticall Husbandman hath Plants of severall degrees and ages in his Nursery and Orchard and according to their capacities he dealeth with them there are Children Young men and Fathers in Gods Family 1 Ioh. 2.12.13 14. the Children are ordered with more tendernesse than the elder sort Esay 40.11 He shall gather the Lambs in his Armes and carry them in his bosome and shall gently lead those that are with young He useth them gently with great tendernesse So againe Hos 11.1 3. When Israel was a child I loved him Vers 3. I taught Ephraim also to goe taking him by the Arms I drew them with cords of a man with Bands of Love I was to them as they that take off the Yoke from the Jawes and I laid meat unto them God used them as a loving Father his children or as a tender Nurse useth her young infant He gives them Milke while they are Babes and stronger meat when they are better growne as we see 1 Cor. 3.2 I fed you with Milke and not with Meat for hitherto ye were not able to beare it Heb. 5.14 Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age So also God in correcting his weake children dealeth with them according to their strength as is made out in that Similitude Esay 28.27 of the Husbandmans dealing with his Corne. The Fetches are not threshed with a threshing instrument neither is a Cartâ— wheele turned upon the Cummin but the Fetches are beaten out with a staffe and the Cummin with a rod. Vse 1 This is a ground of great comfort to weake and doubting soules God as a tender Father cherisheth and nourisheth the beginnings of grace in them he will not deale roughly and harshly but gently with them He will not quench the smoking flax nor breake the bruised Reede but improve and nourish weake beginnings is his children Esay 42.3 even as a Nurse cherisheth her children 1 Thes 2.7 that they may increase towards perfection Vse 2 Let us learne to imitate God in this thing to help and encourage those that are weake in all good beginnings Rom. 15.1 Such as are strong ought to beare with the infirmities of the weake And to comfort the feeble minded and to support the weake 1 Thes 5.14 The third Observation in Nature There are many wild Fruit-trees in the Woods waste grounds and hedges that beare faire and beautifull fruits to looke upon both for bulke and colour and yet are very harsh sower unpleasant fruits the husbandman takes no delight to eat of them although they are usefull for some other purposes these are but wild un-grafted trees and their fruits are accordingly This is another Similitude and shadowes forth unto us That Many Spirituall Fruit-trees bring forth faire Proposition Shadowed and specious fruits to observation which yet are unpleasant to the Husbandman There are very many men in the world being eminent in Learning Gifts and Parts who can performe many workes very exactly they can Pray Preach and compose workes c. and these things to the Observation of most very excellently gaining thereby great commendations from many and it may be admiration from some and yet these very Fruits to the taste of the Husbandman are very bitter and unpleasant though they may be some way serviceable and usefull to his Children and servants yet he himselfe is not delighted with them because they are from ungrafted trees such as are wild and Corrupt by Nature the Principle from which they proceed is Corrupt and that makes the fruits corrupt Who did workes to the observation of men more faire and specious then the Pharises and yet these their fruits were starke naught they were but painted fruits faire to a carnall eye without any good tast or relish Luk. 16.15 Lu. 11.39 Let none content themselves with outward performances in the worship of God though never so faire and unreproveable to the Vse 1 eye of men but looke to the Principles to the frame of the spirit to the spring from which any workes flow and examine whether they be streames from the Divine Nature or from common gifts and parts in the soule whether they be shoots springing from the spirit of Christ as from the Roote or from a Naturall Principle drawne out by some externall Causes and selfe ends for though they are never so plausible and beautifull in the eyes of men they may be deformed in the eyes of God and fruits altogether unpleasant to him Many things that are highly esteemed among men are abomination in the sight of God Luk. 16.15 Vse 1 This may serve to pull downe the high conceipts which carnall and unregenerate men have of themselves because of their Gifts and Parts their great and famous actings in the world did they but see and had they hearts to understand and consider that bitter and poysonous Roote Originall corruption which staines and spoyles all their Fruits their high conceipts of themselves and their Actings would be much abated They are but apples of Sodome Splendida peccata glorious sinnes for while the Tree is corrupt the fruit is so Math. 7.18 The fourth Observation in Nature WE find by Experience That Grafts and stocks joyned together of contrary or much different Natures will not grow nor thrive together if they be joyned in Grafting either the Graft growes not at all or else very poorely and weakly and in a few yeares decayes and dies But if the kinds of Trees are joyned together according to Rules of Nature and Art then they thrive together vigorously and beare fruits plentifully This is another Similitude of the state of Spirituall Fruit-trees and shadowes out unto us this Proposition which also concurres with the word and experience Proposition Shadowed That persons joyned in any relation they have comfort or affliction together according to their Natures This is certaine in Nature Morality and Divinity That so much as things differ in their Natures one from another so great is the degree of dislike one of another And so neere as they are in their Natures and properties so great is the degree of complacency and love one of another Likenesse is both the Cause and the Bond of Love This is seene in all visible Creatures many Instances might easily be brought to shew it Likenesse in Natures Manners Customes begets Love and distance in these causeth dislike and sometimes Hatred 2 Cor. 6.14 What Fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse and what Communion hath light with darknesse c which Questions include Positions This should teach all who intend to enter into the state of Vse 1 Marriage to looke well to their choice that it be upon good grounds and not for

wast affected with me and we walked closely together but now the case is otherwise what iniquity have ye found in me that ye are gone farre from me have walked after vanity are become vaine as vers 5. thou hast lost thy first Love Rev. 2.4 God is sometimes necessitated as we may say to take away and deprive his people of Priviledges and good things that so by a sence of the want of them they may be brought to see their unthankfulnesse and take more notice of them and prize them more when they are restored The experience of Christians make this too evident Vse 1 The consideration of this should humble us and make us greatly ashamed seeing that many kindnesses from God many acts of his Love will not draw and fasten our hearts to himselfe but that they grow cold and sluggish under the richest enjoyments Let us often reflect upon it and loath our selves for this unanswerable frame of spirit towards God men cannot beare unthankfulnesse or slighting without withdrawing the manifestations of their love Now such as cannot out of an ingenuous Principle returne love for love to God yet let the feare of loosing enjoyments make such persons value and prize them Vse 2 Secondly this hatefull frame of spirit of neglecting or undervaluing precious things from God should make us long for the state of glory when the soule will be in a constant frame frame of fervent love to God and be as much affected with enjoyments after thousands millions of yeares as at the first The nine and twentieth Observation in Nature ALL the sâ—p and nourishment that the branches of a Tree have they receive it from the Roote the boughes and branches have not one jot of sap but what arises from the Roote there would not be one Bud or blossome or shoote or leafe or fruit upon the Tree if the Roote did not give up sap to nourish and maintaine them This shadowes out unto us That Our life growth strength and all our spirituall Acts Proposition shadowed are from Christ Christ is the Roote and stock of everie believer and all spirituall life and habituall grace is from him and not only the seede habits and principles of grace but also all the workings and actings of grace are from him as at first wee were starke dead in sinnes and trespasses untill he gave us life so being quickned by the sonne who quickneth whom he will we cannot grow nor act but by influences from him 2 Cor. 3.5 We are not sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God A good thought is the least and lowest act of grace and yet that we cannot doe of our selves good thoughts and desires are as Buds or Blossomes upon a tree which shew themselves before the fruits Now if trees cannot bud of themselves how much lesse can they bring forth fruits Which also our Saviour plainely tels his disciples Jo. 15.5 Without me ye can doe nothing Hee doth not say without me ye cannot doe any great thing but nothing at all And Hosea 14.8 from me is thy fruit found The Spirit of Christ is the spring and Roote of all our spirituall life it is the strength and power of the soule in believers Acts 1.8 Ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you Paul ascribes his life and power to Act all to Christ Gal. 2.20 I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the sonne of God And Phil. 4.13 I can doe all things saith he but it is through Christ that strengtheneth me Vse 1 From hence believers some more especially of more eminent parts and gifts may see cause and reason to take shame unto themselves who having performed any duties or done any thing according to the mind of Christ are ready to take the glory to themselves and thinke too well of themselves O this is a generall corruption an accursed thing in the mid'st of us this secretly workes more or lesse in every heart but in some is more apparent to themselves and others although it may be these kind of workings of heart declare not themselves plainely nor arise not up in the soule to cleare and positive assertions shewing themselves in their owne colours and proper natures yet they may be discerned to be in the heart by their fruits effects and consequences which spirituall eyes discerne in themselves and others Vse 2 Let this teach us to have an eye upon Christ in all wee doe and take heed of going about to act in our owne strength either in performance of duties or mortifying Corruptions Believers generally have recourse to Christ in reference to their salvation and deliverance from sin wrath and hell but doubtlesse there is ignorance of this point in many and a great neglect in most in respect of eying Christ and drawing vertue from him by faith as to particular actings all along in their lives were we but well instructed in this point and did but practise accordingly even to looke unto Christ with the eye of faith to fetch life strength quickning and all things needefull wee might then dye more unto sin Acts 1.8 and live more unto God and might find our selves strengthned with might in the inner man by his glorious power even the spirit of Christ Col. 1.11 which worketh in his people mightily vers 19. Vse 3 Seeing all is from Christ let therefore all be unto Christ give the glory to him seeing the life and power to Act is from him This is a thing of most speciall concernment and to be noted by every believer that as we doe all in the strength of Christ who is the efficient cause of all the good we doe so also we should doe all unto Christ as the finall Cause unto whom and for whom we doe all These two speciall things the Apostle laies downe in one verse Phil. 1.11 He prayes that they may abound in love and be filled with the fruits of righteousnesse which are by Iesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God It is the property of hypocrites temporary believers to act in their owne strength Gifts and parts and for themselves their eye is secretly upon themselves Hos 10.1 These are empty Vines they bring forth fruit to themselves their fruit is as good as no fruit because for themselves but trees of the Lords planting bring forth fruit that he may be glorified Esay 61.3 and Rom. 7.4 That we should bring forth fruit unto God The thirtieth Observation in Nature FRuit-trees that spread much and grow low neere the ground such most commonly bring forth more and larger fruits then high Trees that aspire up into the Aire some Reasons may be given for it See Lo. Ba. Nat. Hist This shadowes out unto us That Humble Christians bring forth farre more and fairer fruits Proposition shadowed then such whose spirits are

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