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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

thereof In this life he will reward with glory and honour Cant. 7.17 A fruitful Christian carryes a Heaven in his heart Joy and Comfort Cant. 7.17 a happy and blessed communion there is betwixt Christ and him and hereafter there is a Blessing abides him for ever Heb. 7.8 Heb. 7.8 And thus you have heard what reason we have to be fruitful both in respect of others and of our selves as well as others Lastly If we cast our eyes upon the whole Creation and every creature therein that God hath made we may be stirred up and provoked to fruitfulnesse The Heaven the Earth the Sea and all therein are fruitful in their kind and shall man be barren and fruitlesse for whom all these are fruitful Doth not the Sun come forth as a Bride groom out of his Chamber daily Psal 19. rejoycing as a Gyant to run his course to enlighten the earth wi●h his beams and nou●ish and cherish all things with the heat thereof The Moon and the Stars quicken this lower World by their operative Influence The big-bellied Clouds which tly up and down on the wings of the wind deliver their moist burthens on the earth and showre down their seasonable dews to cool and moisten it that it may bear fruit Doth not the Earth make a thankful return and yield her fatness and riches to innumerable creatures that live on it and depend upon her as their common Mother for maintenance and what creature is there that lives on it but yields some fruit Beasts Trees Plants all bring forth after their kind for the good of man that man may bring forth fruit to God for whose Glory he was created Let these considerations prevail with us that we may in some sort answer the Lord's expectations from us he looks for fruit let him find it in us Oh that it could be said of us as it was of the Land of Canaan Deut. 8.7 8 9. Deut. 8.7 8 9. It is a good Land a land of Brooks of Water of Fountains that spring out of the Valleys and Hills A Land of Wheat and Barley and Vines and Figg-Trees and Pomegranates A Land of Oyl Olive and Hony A Land whose stones are Iron and out of whose Hills thou mayst dig Brasse We have Springs of means to inform our minds and Brooks of knowledge to direct our course Our good works should stand like those fields of Wheat and Barley Vines Figg-Trees and Pomegranates let be our fruitful Meditations Oyl and Hony the Grace of our lips our Understanding full of good things our whole life Wells and Vineyards to comfort both our selves and others our very rocks should be Iron and our hills yield brasse our most barren works should be profitable to others our very Falls others warnings to prevent high-mindednesse And so Use 3 We may gather much comfort from our fruitfulnesse which sweetly seals up our Calling to glory and virtue as the budding and bringing forth of ripe Almonds did Aaron's Calling to the Priest-hood It may assure us that we are regenerated set into Christ quickned by his Spirit and that we live in him out of whom we could not be fruitful in good works Good Fruit is an undeniable Argument of a good Tree for that a corrupt Tree cannot bring forth good fruit as our Saviour tells us Mat. 7.18 I know the most fruitful Christian comes far short of that fruitfulnesse that should be in him and his defectivenesse in holy duties both to God and man may sometimes cause him to question his estate Mat. 4.28 but that should not too much deject the spirits of any of us for the fruit of the Spirit like the fruits of the Earth ripens by degrees and much of it is nipped in the bud and blossome and comes to nothing but a little fruit if it be of the right kind proves that Tree to be good and the promise is that if there be any fruit at all God will purge that branch and help it against corruption so that it shall bring forth more fruit Joh. 15.1.2 But when there is no good Fruit to be found under our leaves that is a miserable sterility indeed Joh. 15.1 2. And yet such was the sterility of the Figg-Tree mentioned in my Text. He came and sought fruit thereon and found none Text And found none Shews of fruit it made but brought forth nothing lesse It was like the deceitful ground that mocked the Husbandman Expectata seges vanis elusit avenis Virg. Had there been here a Figg and there a Figg like the shaking of an Olive Tree two or three in the top of the uppermost boughes or outward branches the Husbandman had not been altogether deceived in his expectation albe it that had not answered his cost and pains bestowed on it but there was none no not one Figg that could be found growing upon it Thus you see Where God hath well deserved Doct. there many times he is ill requited The Gentiles who lived without the Pale of the Church are charged with this sin of Ingratitude Rom. 1.21 Rom. 1.21 God had bountifully declared himself unto them even by the light of Nature and the Book of the Creatures so as they knew there was a God and that he was most wise good just punishing the bad and doing good to the good and that this God ought to be worshipped according to his Will but they worshipped him not as God not conceiving of him as God ought to be conceived of nor giving him that Glory which was suitable to his Infinitenesse and divine perfections and so were unthankful to God for hose bl●ssings which they had received which caused God to punish th t ingratitude of theirs by delivering them up to all manner of uncle●nnesse and brutish lusts Ver. 25.26 ver 25.26 A fearful punishment indeed none greater can be inflicted out of the place of torment But what speak we of the Gentiles Ingratitude is not all without the Pale In God's own Vineyard it may be found Hear what Moses speaks at large unto the poynt Deut. 37.7 19. Explained Deut. 37.7 19. God had done much for his people Israel never more no not so much for any Nation under Heaven His mercies are mentioned and declared first more Generally ver 8 9. When the most High divided to all Nations their Inheritances that is to those seventy Nations reckoned Gen. 10. He ●spied out the Land of Canaan which was the Glory of all lands Ezek. 20.6 for those seventy souls of Israel Eze. 20.6 mentioned Gen. 46.27 Deut. 10.22 these were to him as his portion and peculiar Inheritance Exod. 19.15 Isa 19.25 1 Pet. 2.9 Deut. 7.78 Exod. 19.15 Isa 19.25 1 Pet. 2.9 them he made choice of above all people of the World for his yet not for any desert of theirs but out of his own meer love Deut. 7.78 Then more particularly he reckons up the blessings and mercies bestowed on them ver