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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

good through his blessing becoming means to draw his Elect nearer to the chiefest good yea let God's Judgments go as high as they can in this World in Plaguing of the wicked Etsi novum videtur quod dicere volo saith Origen dicam tamen Though it be-strange that I will say I will say it Etiam bonitas Dei est qui dicitur furor ejus that which we call the anger of God the wrath of God the Fury of God is the goodnesse of God Luther goes yet higher Hell it self is full of God and the chief good no lesse then Heaven for the Justice of God which shines forth in the damnation of the wicked is God himself and God is the chiefest good And thus much of the Objections made against the Doctrine delivered Let me now shew you the Grounds of it Reas 1 First God is the first and supream cause of all and all second causes are subordinate unto him and but inferiour means to work his Will and in their subordinate operations they are but in the nature of Instruments to the first cause And however there is in Nature a concatenation and linking of Causes together whereby inferiour Causes are subordinate one to another yet so as that all hold their subordination unto God who is the first and principal Cause Hos 2.21 22. I will hear the Heavens saith God and the Heavens shall hear the Earth Hos 2.21 22. and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyle and they shall hear Jezreel Man standeth in need of food food is not provided without the help of the Earth the Earth is not fruitful without the Dew of Heaven the Heavens cannot send their rain without God's appoyntment So that he is the principal Cause and first Mover who sets all inferiour means on Work one Creature stands in need of another and depends upon one anothers help none of them can help or work without the next cause to which it is subordinate but all depends upon God he hears them all and by that vertue which they receive from him the first and chief Cause they have all their vertue and efficacy without which they could do nothing In regard whereof all the Effects and Actions of secundary causes are not so properly the effects of them as of that cause which is fi●st and principal As the Scribe is more properly sayd to write than the pen which he writeth with and the Workman to do the work rather then the tools which he useth as his Instruments in doing of the Work So the Lord Who is the chief Agent and first Mover in all Actions may more fitly and properly be sayd to effect and bring things to passe then any inferiour or subordinate Cause they being but his Instruments that he works by Who ever then may have a hand in afflicting and punishing of us they are but Instruments as the Rod or Axe in his hand to effect his good will and pleasure he it is that works by them Reas 2 Secondly To revenge is God's Prerogative Three things he reserves to himself The glory of Works and Actions the Judgment of Secrets and the Revenge of Injuries saith one And he saith no more then what the Scripture saith in so saying For it is written Vengeance is mine and I will repay saith the Lord Rom. 12.19 Where we see Rom. 12.19 1st God's Challenge Vengeance is mine 2ly His Execution of it I will Repay 3ly His Subscription of his great name thereunto saith the Lord. And that this is the Lords true Act and Deed and a Faithful Copy out of the Original St. Paul the Register of God's Holy Spirit gives witnesse with Scriptum est It is written And so we find it Deut. 32.35 Deut. 32.35 God sometimes may send us our payment by the hand of the Ministers of the Word Who have Vengeance in a readinesse against all disobedience 2 Cor. 10.6 which Vengeance is spiritual saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 10.6 and mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds verse 6. And is to be understood especially of the threatnings and denunciations of God's Judgments against offenders but the Execution is left to God for that we know He will repay and in his own time fullfil And sometimes that Vengeance is Corporal reaching but the Body which is partly inflicted by his substitutes the Magistrate or other Messengers of his wrath Rom. 13.4 Rom. 13.4 And partly referred to the Lords own hand immediately to inflict Particularly in this Life and Generally at the last great Day of Vengeance 2 Thes 1.8 Whether Vengeance taken 2 Thes 1.8 be mediate or immediate upon Body or Soul or both We know him that hath sayd Vengeance is mine Heb. 10.13 and I will recompence saith the Lord Heb. 10.13 Reas 3 Lastly Every good thing is of God so teacheth St. James 1.17 Jam. 1.17 Now if every punishment be a good thing though not simply in it self and in its own nature but as it is a just work and having a good end as before hath bin shewed we must needs conclude that it hath God for the Authour whoever be the Instrument But this is a Poynt that needs not so much evident Demonstration as serious Consideration and right and seasonable Application which now we fall upon Use 1 From this that hath bin delivered of God's being the principal Author and Efficient of those evils which do befall us They of the Church of Rome would make the World believe that we of the Reformed Church make God to be the Author of sin and that the Adultery of David Treason of Judas c. by our Doctrine were the proper work of God which is a Devilish slander that they cast upon us This we say that in a sinful Action there are two things Actio and Actionis irrectitudo there is an Entity Being or Action and there is of that Entity Being or Action a crookednesse obliquity or naughtinesse which is Actionis Malitia as they call it unlawfulnesse transgression pravity that in every such action is contained Prim. Secun Quest 71. Art 6. Conclus Quest 79. Art 2. Conclus Act. 17.28 And so Aquinas himself doth teach us to distinguish and illustrates the same in a lame legg wherein are two qualities ability to go but inability to go upright the going and stirring that it hath is from the virtue that moveth it from God Almighty in whom we live move and have our beeing But the lamenesse and debility of the legg belongeth to another Cause Distortion Crookedness or some other Impotency in the legg it self So the action or motion it self in every evil action is from a good Author but the evil in the action from a bad Author even from the impure fountain of man's corrupt heart whose imaginations are evil and onely evil continually But our Church hath bin justified by her Children sufficiently in this poynt I passe it Use 2 There are

threatned do not presently befall you you are ready to conceive that we have but deluded and affrighted you with needless fears It was thus with the ten Tribes as we read Jer. 23.33 God sent his Prophets to them to forewarn them of those Judgments which afterwards befel them Jer. 23.33 40. Ealightned and Explained whose predictions and prophesies and denunciations were usually termed Burthens and because these Judgments denounced did not presently fall upon them they began to scoff and mock the Prophets when they came unto them and to say in scorn Now Prophet What is the burden of the Lord what is the burden you now bring Say unto them saith the Lord This is the burden of the Lord I will even forsake you that is I will urterly cast you off and that you shall find to be burden enough Would you have yet more weight upon you why then as it is elegantly and emphatically added vers 36. every man's word shall be his burthen that is that which he saith shall be that which shall be laid to his charge his scorning his idle questioning of the Prophet What burden now What Sword What Famine What Pestilence Is not all Quiet all at Peace all well with us for all your crying out of tune out of season Wo Wo Well saith God your mocking and deriding of those denunciations and forewarnings in the mouths of my Prophets shall be your burthen and aggravate those Judgments that shall befall you and seeing you say this word the burden of the Lord I have sent unto you my Prophets and charged them saying you shall not say any more unto them The burden of the Lord vers 38. that is they shall not bestow any more such care upon you as to tell you that the Lord threatens you And this is a heavier burden then the former Gods presence in anger His frowning and threatning yea smiting and punishing is heavy but God's absence and dereliction is a farr heavier burden for mark what follows vers 39. Therefore Behold I even I will utterly forget you and I will forsake you and that City that I gave you and your Fathers and cast you out of my presence and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten Now the Lord look in mercy upon us and forgive us this sin in despising these warnings which he hath given us and doth daylie yet give us by the mouths of his faithful Ministers Secondly He hath warned us by himself more immediately by wonders from Heaven Joel 2.30 Blood and Fire and Pillars of Smoak strange and fiery impressions in the Aire our eyes have seen Sometimes the Heavens have seemed to be of a light fire and to burn over our heads Brin●●●y his third part of the true watch c. 3. p. 16. Sometimes hath appeared as it were a fiery Tent spread directly over us with Pillars of horrible darknesse Pillars of fire and Pillars of Blood Sundry prodigious Comets and blazing Starrs have appeared of which albeit some natural reason may be rendered yet being extraordinary they do warn us of God's anger Anno. 1618. 1652. and threaten Judgment By terrible Thunder and Lightning the most High hath uttered his Voyce and that a Mighty Voyce beating down and consuming therewith not onely many Houses and Villages Psal 18.14 29 3. but some of his own Houses and Temples wherein his name is called upon and even then whilst People have presented themselves before him to serve him and call upon his name as if he would warn us to approach his presence with more reverence and fear And how often hath he made our Heavens as Brasse in withholding the Clouds from watering the Earth so that the grasse withered and the fruits were parched by reason of extream heat and drought Serr Fren. Hist l. 1. p. 521. In the French History we read of a year which the French termed the year of Rosted Vines Such years we have had which might be styled years of parched corne Thirdly As God hath given us warning from Heaven above so from the Earth beneath as by the quaking and shaking of it Acts 2.29 which however Philosophy imputes to the Aire shut up in the bowels of the Earth yet we are taught to look higher and apprehend it as a manifest signe of God's fierce wrath and anger Prov. 18.7 8 9. Zach. 14.15 Psal 18.7 8 9. Zach. 14.15 Warnings of this nature England hath had many In the year 1579 our Chronicles make mention of such an Earth-quake here in England as that it tolled the great Bell at Westminister and threw down a piece of Dover Castle and a part of Sutton Church in Kent In the year 1601 there was another great Earth-quake that made St. Maries Bell in Cambridge to toll And in the year 1626 March 27 there was another felt in some places very terrible The like hath bin in some other places of latter years as hath bin credibly reported This quaking and shaking of the Earth is to awaken and shake the Inhabitants thereof out of their security if it be possible and doth commonly precede and go before the alteration of Religion as hath bin by some observed Tops on Joel p. 253. Add hereunto the strange sinking of the ground in the year 1657 at Bickly in Cheshire as not being able to bear the load of sin that is committed upon it And the monstrous births that have bin brought forth of late years both of Man and Beast as warnings to repent of our monstrous sins Luke 21.25 Distresse of Nations on Earth with perplexity is made a prodigious signe of God's anger and of approaching vengeance by our Saviour Luke 21.25 And who can say that this Nation hath not bin thus warned Fourthly As we have had extraordinary warnings from Heaven above and from the Earth beneath So from the waters under the Earth The Sea roaring and swelling after an unwonted manner as if that signe were fulfilled likewise which our Saviour makes mention of in the former Text that we quoted Luke 21.25 The Inundations and breaking in of that unruly Creature into the firme Land See the Reports of Englands floods Anno. 1607. in divers parts of this Realm to the overthrowing and breaking down of whole Towns and Villages to the number of 26 Parishes in one Shire The unwonted flux and reflux of it The doubling of the Tides in the River of Thames a thing not ordinary yet twice or thrice happening within these few years And not long before these bloody Warrs began and within a while after that Comet which appeared 1618 there was a Book found in a Pike's belly which was brought to the University of Cambridge a little before the Commencement The fish being taken and opened John Frith's Preparation to the Crosse was in the maw of it This we find related by a Reverend Divine and one of great Note Jer. 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