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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	faith_n	patience_n	temperance_n	4,962	5	11.6128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10928	The vvild vine: or, An exposition on Isaiah's parabolicall song of the beloued: Isa. 5. 1,2,3, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, pastor of Messing in Essex; Strange vineyard in Palæstina	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1632 (1632)	STC 21200; ESTC S116115	254,274	348

A Vineyard of any other possession is most deare to him that holds it that he will not part withall on any tearmes The Lord forbid it me y 1 Kings 21.3 said Naboth to Ahab that I should giue the inheritance of my fathers vnto thee Thus is the Church more deare and precious to the Lord than all other societies in the world z Psal 87.2 Hee loueth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Iacob It a Isay 43.4 is precious in his sight He will giue men and people for her life b Cap. 62.3 It is a Crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord and a royall Diadem in the hand of her God Hence it is called c Isay 49.22 The beauty of the earth The standard of the Nations d Matth. 4. The holy Citie e Reu. 21.2.19 A citie whose walles and gates are of precious stones and the streets of gold f Cant. 2.1 The rose of the field The Lilly of the Vallies g and 4.13 15. The fairest amongst women An Orchard of Pomgranats A Fountaine of Gardens A well of springing waters And being compared with other societies h Cap. 2.2 3. As a Lilly amongst thornes and like the Apple-tree amongst the trees of the Forest So then by all these comparisons it is euident that there is no society in the world so excellent none so worthy none so amiable none so louely none so deare none so precious vnto the Lord as is his Church And thus in generall we haue seene what excellent proportion and congruity there is betweene them and how liuely by a Vine-yard the nature and condition of the Church visible is set forth Now more particularly if we compare the Church and the Vine it selfe together we shall finde the resemblances manifold either in respect of the Root or of the Branches or of the Banke or of the Wood or of the Leaues or of the Fruit there being no property in the one which is not in a sort answered in the other For the Root Qui viret in folijs venit à radicibus humor that we know sendeth sappe to euery Stem and Branch whereby they flourish and bring forth fruit and vnlesse they continue in the root they can neuer thriue nor prosper for thence it is whence they haue their moisture Thus the Church and euery true member of it receiueth the life and sappe of grace from Iesus Christ who is the root and into whom the multitude of true beleeuers are engrafted whereby they grow and bring forth fruit to God So that vnlesse they continue in him they cannot prosper but must needs fade and wither according to our Sauiours speech i Iohn 15.4 As the branch cannot beare fruit of it selfe except it abide in the Vine Vers 5. no more can ye except ye abide in mee I am the Vine ye are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without mee you can doe nothing Vers 6. If a man abide not in me hee is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them vp and cast them into the fire and they are burned In the Branches there is great resemblance diuers wayes 1. There are many branches in the root yet all make but one Vine so all the faithfull in the congregation and all the congregations of the faithfull in the whole world make but one only Church And albeit there are k Cant. 6.8 9. threescore Queenes and fourescore Concubines and Virgins without number yet saith Solomon speaking in the person of Christ my doue my vndefiled is but one And so witnesseth S. Paul l 1 Cor. 12.20 Now are they many members yet but one bodie One as sucking sap from one and the same root liuing by one and the same spirit m Ephes 4.4 and ruled by one and the same head Christ blessed for euer But of this more hereafter 2. All the branches of a Vine though they seeme to stand alike in the stocke are not alike fruitfull neither doe they all draw sap and moysture from the root for as some are fruitfull and flourish so some againe are barren and wither which are cut off and cast into the fire Thus is it in the Church visible all the members thereof are not alike incorporated into the root through the inuisible bonds of the spirit neither doe they n Iohn 15. bring forth fruit in him Some there are who are onely externally engrafted others there are who are also internally The former sort are such members of the Church visible who by externall baptisme haue giuen their names to Christ and so entred into the profession yet indeed are not Christs because they haue not the Spirit of Christ for though they are baptized with water yet they are not with the holy Ghost They haue Iohns baptisme but not Christs baptisme This kinde of Sacramentall engrafting will suffer a cutting off o Iohn 15.2 because they haue not the sap of grace ministred vnto them from the stocke of life but are as dead trees and branches The other sort are they who besides the outward engrafting are also inwardly engrafted by the holy Ghost into the stocke Christ Iesus and doe liue in him and grow in him and bring forth fruit to the praise of his name Notwithstanding both these sorts as they communicate together in the outward bonds of one profession as they visibly continue together like one visible body vpon that one root Christ Iesus on whom they all outwardly professe that they depend as on the fountaine of their sap and life so they both together make this visible Vineyard and Church on earth 3. There is no branch of any tree that exceedeth it Sine modo crescunt Plinie in growing and spreading forth it selfe in one weeke yea night how exceedingly is it shot So the true members of the Church exceed all others in growth in grace they are still spreading forth their branches growing from one degree of grace vnto another They are all for Addition and Multiplication nothing for Diuision or Substraction except in euill Virtutes Christianae sunt copulatiuae They sing the song of degrees adding to p 2 Pet. 1.5 Faith Virtue and to Virtue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godlinesse and to Godlinesse Brotherly-kindnesse and to Brotherly-kindnesse Charitie They be not like the old Moone in the wane but like the new euer in her increasings 4. The branches of the Vine grow the better for their pruning and not the worse bringing forth after it is cut more and better grapes not worse nor fewer Thus the Church and true members of the Church the more they bee afflicted the more they flourish as q Exod. 1.2 the people of Israel vnder Pharaohs tyranny the more they were oppressed the more they multiplied and grew Thus the Church of