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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

Covenant Psal 50.15 Call upon me saith God in the time of trouble Psal 50.15 I will hear thee and thou shalt glorify me Which Scripture saith one is a kind of Indenture God is the Landlord he demiseth a Tenement I will hear thee in the time of trouble but he requires Covenants from the Tenant first a common Fine must be paid Call upon me And then a continuall Rent must be rendered Thou shalt glorify me Justice by Ingratitude is violated and therefore carefully to be avoyded Religion and Piety will not own it What is Religion said the Orator bu● Gratitude to God Piety but Gratitude to Paren●s Loyalty but Gratitude to Princes c. Thankfulnesse to God is a Religious Act part of that service whereby we worship and honour him Psal 50.23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me And it may in some sort be said to be a more excellent part of God's worship then Prayer for that it is of a larger extent we have many things to praise God for which we never prayed for as for our Election Preservation in our Infancy and many other daily favours which we begged not at God's hands No nor may pray for as for this or that particular Affliction which yet hapning unto us we are bound to blesse God for it being a fatherly correction laid on us for our Amendment Besides it contributes more to God's glory to acknowledge by thanks that God hath given than to acknowledge by prayer that God can give The one belongeth to them that seek the other to them that have found what they sought c. Both Suit and Service is owing unto God our Lord 2 Cor. 4.15 Prayer and Prayse and yet the last is that wherewith the Lord seems to be most delighted as that whereby he is most honoured Nor can that man be a Religious man that doth neglect it and is ungrateful You see then in what state he stands that is Unthankful he is Outlawed both by the Law Naturall Morall and Spirituall which is the second Motive I commend unto you which being being well cosindered may teach us to avoyd Ingratitude Thirdly Consider the Recompence and Reward of it It provoketh revenge both from God and Man What the sin against the Holy Ghost is in Divinity saith one the same is Ingratitude in Morality a sin unpardsnable It was said of Alexander that he exceeded all in Bounty And of Caesar that he exceeded all in Patience yet it was observed that the one did never give unto and the other never forgive an ungrateful Person The Laws of Persia Macedonia and Athens condemned such to death as requited not a good-turn it being in their power For they judged that such a one would not stick in a very high degree to neglect their friends their Parents their Country their Gods inasmuch as he that is unthankful is also shamelesse and he that is not ashamed will not stick to commit any Villany Philip of Macedon caused a Souldier of his who offered unkindnesse to his Host who had courteously and plentifully entertained him yet at his going away begged some of his Host's lands to be branded in the fore ead with ●●ere two words Hospes ingratus But we shall not need to god w● to the Philistins to sharpen our Mattocks Scripture affords us Instances of Revenge justly taken or at least intended to be taken upon Ingratitude 2 Sam. 10.4 David was highly incensed against the Ammonites for that despight which they offered to his Messengers whom he sent in kin●nesse to visit their King after the death of his Father Nahash They shaved off the one half of their Beards laith the Text and cut off their Garments in the middle even to their Buttocks and sent them away The Beard is a Naturall Ornament of the Body and so it was accounted in Israel for had this trick of shaving the Beard in use at this day amongst the Romanists and now in fashion amongst us been the use in Israel the Messengers needed not to have been ashamed as they were for they might more easily have cut off the other part of the Beard remaining as one saith Ver. 5. than to have stayed at Jericho till their Beards were growen as they were enjoyned to do And the Garment is an Artificiall Ornament of the Body Ver. 6. which covers the nakednesse of it In both the King of Ammon sought the disgrace of David's servants which Ingratitude so stank in David's nostrils that he revenged it with the slaughter and overthrow of seven hundred of their Chariots and forty thousand Horsemen And how greatly and justly was David exasperated against Nabal for his ungrateful carriage towards him 1 Sam. 27. David had done much for him in preserving all that he had Ver 14.21 and being a defence unto him and as a Wall unto all that was his both by Night and by Day as Nabal's own Servants did testify Now David being in want in the wildernesse and hearing that Nabal made a feast for his Sheep-shearers sends a friendly Message to him desiring some relief from him for himself and his what he thought good himself not prescribing what he should send an honesmotion and as easy for him to grant at such a time But Nabal forgetting the kindnesse that he had received doth not onely refuse to return kindnesse for kindnesse but gives rayling and reproachful words Who is David or who is the Son of Ishai Why Chur●e he is God's anointed he that hilled Goliah and had defended the people o God in general from the Philistins and that in particular had kept thee in the wildernesse and done many courtesies for thee in Carmel And it is one degree of Ingratitude not to retain the memory of a Benefactor 's kindnesse But he proceeds yet higher in slandering David and his ca●se making him all that were with him no better then Fugitives R●magates from their Master and so no onely denyed David that courte●y which was desired but he reviles his Person and condemns his Cause Ver. 13. and in so doing sends him stones instead of Bread which Ingratitude of his did so incense David albeit he had been long in the School of Patience well profited therein that he armeth himself to take revenge Ver. 22. and bindeth it with an Oa●h that be would slay all that belonged to Nabal even to the Dogg that pisseth against the Wall Verse 23 32. And questionless had proceeded in his purpose had not Ab●gail Nabal's wife met him by the way and by her wisdome pacified his wrath and hindred him from his bloody intention Ver. 33.34 For which David blessed God and acknowledged his providence therein in sending Abigail out to meet him and blessed Abigail as that Instrument that was used to keep him from that bloody act which was intended by him And yet Ver. 37.38 notwithstanding that David spared this churlish and ingrateful Nabal God would not spare him

condemn thee if he can as Judas did Christ who as some say had been before he was called to be an Apostle d●livered by his means being otherwise likely to have suffered for a flagitions offence This Envy cometh in with her comparisons disdaining that others should be equalized much lesse preferred in bestowing and receiving gifts Thus the Elder Brother looked upon the younger Brother's enrertainment with an evi●l eye Luk. 15.18 19. insomuch that he sticked not to charge his Father with unkindnesse as if nothing at all had been done for him albeit the Inheritance was his Luke 15.18 19. It is our imbred emnity against God that maketh us so loath to acknowledge God and his goodnesse towards us Fifthly There is much of Sacriledge in it The Ungrateful man robs God of th●t honour which is due unto him and w●ich he ha●h rese ved ●o himself nor will he give it to any o her God is content that we should have the good of all b●t the prai●e of all h●●looks to have himself That is as the Ewe that Nathan spe●k●o● 2 Sam. 12.3 Mal. 3.8 in the Parable which God puts in his own bosome Will any man rob his God he is a wretch that doth so And such a wretch is the ungrateful person who steales away God's Ewe-Lamb having large flocks and herds of his own Six●hly Psal 73.11 Job 21.25 and lastly There is Atheism in it Thus those ungrateful wretches mentioned by ●ob whom God hath blessed with temporal abundance ask What is the Almighty that they should serve him Job 21.25 and should Job have been ungrateful towards God for those blessings which he had received from him he professeth plainly that he should have denyed the God that is above Job 31.28 Ps 63.21 in so doing Jeb 31.28 An unthankful heart is an Atheisticall heart wherever it be found Psal 73.11 Thus you see what a bundle of sins are wrapt up in this one albeit you have not seen the one half which is enough one would ●hink to make us abhor-Ingratitude But Secondly I● is a sin that all Law condemns The Law of Nature is against it For naturally every effect is brought back to its cause Aquin 4.22 106. Art 2. as all waters come out of the Sea so all re●u●n thither again Now God●s the cause of all things and persons therefore Nos nostraque whatsoever we have and whatsoever we are must be ascrib●o unto him And shall not the Rivolets of praise and thankfulnesse return to that p●ace from whence our benefi●s do spring By Instinct of nature Men have been thankful to Beasts of whom they have go ten any good So Romulus and Rhemus set up in Rome the Im●ge of a Wolf fo● a kind remembrance of that Wolf that did feed them with her Mi●k And Beasts have been thankful to Men. God sends the ungrateful to the Oxe and the Asse to learn of them Isa 1.3 Isa 1.3 And to Birds and Beasts Dogs and Lyons we may send such on the same errands Of the Stork i● is storyed that she offers the first fruit of her young ones to God by casting one of them out of her nest as Rent for her house room And of the Elephant it is reported that coming to feed the first spring he breaks he turns it towards Heaven in testimony of thankfulnesse A poor Spaniell that is fed with a bit and a knock and now and then remembred with a crust of bread how gratefully will he remember his Benefactor saith Ambrose Amb. Hexam Plin. lib. 8. cay 40. Pliny relates many memorable Instances of the fidelity of Dogs to their Masters which are too long to recite The like Gratitude we read in Aulus Gell of a Lyon out of whose foot a young man had pulled a stub and cleansed the wound Aul. Gel. noct Attic. l. 5. c. 14. the name of the man was Androclus a Slave to a noble man in Rome who had run away from his Master and fled into the Desarts where hapning into a Ca● a Lyon comes to him groaning and halting offering to him his paw grievously wounded with a stub Androclus pulls it out dresseth the wound so that in a short time the Lyon was cu●ed in recompence whereof the Lyon brought him every day a part of his prey for the space of three years Afterwards Androclus was taken and sent to Rome and there by his Master imprisoned Not long after this Lyon was also taken alive and sent thither where he was kept after their manner for pastime Androclus was condemned to combate with this Lyon and being brought out of prison and put unto the Lyon expecting nothing but suddain death the Lyon came to him and fawned on him licking his hands and feet and would not hurt him Hereupon the Emperour pardoned Androclus ●set set him free and gave him the Lyon of whom the people usually said Hic est Leo hospes hominis H●c est homo medicus Leonis This is the Lyon that fed the man this is the man that ●hysickt the Lyon The Asp is a vene nous Creature Plin. l. 10. c 74. and yet we read in Pliny of an Aegyptian that had one that ordinarily came to his Table and there took meat at his hand This Serpent afterwards had young ones and one of those young ones happened to sting on● of the Aegyptian's Children whereof it dyed which when the old Asp perceived she presently kill'd they young one which did it and afterwards as ashamed of the wrong offered to her feeder departed from the house and never returned more And the Fish in the Sea likewise they say are in their kind grateful Athenaeus lib. 13. reports that Milesius having bought a Dolphin alive and letting it go again into the Sea afterwards himself being cast away by shipwrack and ready to perish in the midst of the Waves that Dolphin took him and carryed him to the shoar and so preserved his life Albeit I doubt of the truth of the Narration yet I doubt not of this truth that it is more then beastly Ingratitude to be ingrateful These Instances I give you to manifest that Ingratitude is hateful to Nature even in the Creature to the Creature Oh! how detestable then is it in the Creature towards the Creator Common Morality condemns it and informs every common capacity of this common principle Suum cuique Let every one have his own There is no book of Ethicks of moral doctrine that we meet withal wherein there is not almost in every leaf some detestation some Anathema against Ingratitude We owe God thanks in poynt of Morality and Honesty as he is our bontiful Benefactor and gives so liberally to all Every benefit carryes with it the force of an obligation as we all confesse let us receive one small kindnesse from another we acknowledge our selves much bound unto him for it and this the Heathens confesse And then it is a due owing unto God in poynt of

Will and desires unto his Father that for the merit of that Sacrifice which he offered God would be pleased to be reconciled with us and put to his Seal thereunto for our farther assurance Joh. 17.24 Joh. 17.24 Sixthly The Assent and Agreement of his Father resting in this Will of his Son for us Math. 17.5 Joh. 11.42 Mat. 17.5 Joh. 11.42 In short the merit of Christ's death coming between Man's Sin and God's Justice is the Intercession that he now makes in Heaven on our behalf Some conceive that Christ doth still preces fundere Ambrose Orig Greg Nazian Tolet Anselm Pet Martyr Mayer powre our Prayers unto God as he is man though not now after the same manner that he did it when he was upon the Earth either by bowing of the Knee or falling down on the Face or cum luctu lachrymâ with wailing and tears sighs and groans as he did in the Garden and at the raising up of Lazarus which was Origen's Opinion To make Intercession to his Father after such a manner were derogatory to him as Calvin speaks nor is it seemly for that place of Glory where now he is but that Christ by his own Prayers should not second the Cry of his Blood and that he himself being alive should not joyn with it seemeth to some Judicious not probable Let the learned judge The great and tender Compassion of our blessed Saviour Vse towards us miserable Sinners may here be taken notice of who did not onely when he was upon the Earth sigh and mourn and weep out of a compassionate heart for us as he did for Jerusalem Luk. 19.42 but continues speaking to his Father on our behalf and is become our Advocate to plead our Cause and intercede for us as St. John shews 1 Joh. 2.1 yea 1 Joh. 2.1 such a one as forgets us not now that he is in Glory and sitting at his Father's right hand and this very houre whilst we are speaking of it he is doing of it Intreating the Lord to spare us and shew mercy to us and not to stir up his wrath against us Should a man suffer all manner of wrongs and injuries from the hand of his enemies and yet be content to passe by them and not onely so but likewise to grieve and mourn for the miseries that are likely to befal or at any time have befallen the partyes that so wronged him and yet further to mediate and intercede for them to the Prince or higher Powers whom he hath a great Interest in and who are incensed against them and prevail for them This would argue a high degree of Love and Compassion in the Person that should so do But this Christ hath done and still doth and much more than this for poor sinners Oh who is able to expresse the loving-kindnesse of the Lord Use 2 But this makes especially for the comfort of all true Believers to whom Christ's Intercession doth principally belong who are very often cast down and overwhelmed in a manner with doubts and fears in regard of their manifold and daily sins and unallowed failings Let such remember that the mercy of God is daily implored for them Philem. 10 19. Look how Paul interceded to Philemon for Onesimus so doth Christ for every penitent and believing Soul and much more powerfully I beseech thee said Paul for my Son Onesimus whom I have begotten in my bonds which in time past was to thee unprofitable but now profitable to thee and me whom I have sent again Do thou therefore receive him that is mine own Bowels Perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou shouldst receive him for ever not as a Servant but above a Servant a Brother beloved especially to me If thou count me therefore a Partner receive him as my self If he have wronged thee or owe thee ought put that on my account I Paul have written it with my own hand I will repay it Phil. 10. 19. Thus Pathetically doth Paul play the Oratour for Onesimus But Christ excells Father I beseech thee for this my Child whom I have begotten again of Water and the Spirit not onely in my bonds but in my blood once a rebellious enemy but now I have made him useful for thy Glory Whom I have brought back again to thee that thou maist receive him for ever into favour Good Father receive him shut him not out but open the everlasting doors of Mercy to him he is as near me as my own Bowels let him be so to thee he is not onely a Servant but a Brother a beloved Brother to me especially The Glory which thou hast given me I have given him If thou countest me a Partner with thee in thy Glory receive him as my self admit him into thine own Blessednesse As thou art in me and I in thee so let him be one in Us if he hath wronged thee or owe ought to divine Justice put that on my account I will pay it take my reckoning on the Cross for it I Jesus have written it on the Cross with mine own blood the Pen being a spear's Poynt I will pay thee all There are but few such Pauls alive as he was he dyed long since and left not his like upon the Earth But our comfort is that our Jesus is yet alive He lives and will ever live thus to intercede his Father on our behalf Heb. 7.25 When thou offendest God and provokest him to wrath then he steps in Heb. 7.25 between his Father's wrath and thee that it cannot break forth upon thee And as Moses held the hands of God so doth Christ the hands of his Father whilst his hands are up Exod. 17.12 God cannot destroy and his hands are up continually on thy behalf He is daily and continually exercised in making Intercession by the merit of his dea●h and Passion not onely for all God's Elect and chosen ones in general but for every particular Person and that particularly He lives on purpose to perform this work It is the end of his businesse Heb. 7.25 the businesse of his life now in Heaven as the Apostle there intimates Heb. 7.25 Oh! but thou wilt say my sins are great and heynous long layen in often renewed and many waies aggravated Object Remember what the Apostle saith in the former place He is able to save to the utmost those that come to God by him Resp seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them That word to the utmost saith one is a reaching word Tho Goodwin and extends it self so far as that thou canst not look beyond it nor do beyond it Shouldst thou climb up to Mount Ararat to the highest Mountain on the Earth yet thou canst not look beyond the Heavens the higher thou climbest the more of the Heavens doth appear unto thee Let thy Soul be carryed as Christ's body was by Sathan to an exceeding high Mountain Mat. 4.8 and have a view from thence presented