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A10060	The spring A sermon preached before the Prince at S. Iames, on Mid-lent Sunday last. By Daniel Price, chapleine in ordinarie to the Prince, and Master of Artes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1609 (1609)	STC 20305; ESTC S115203	15,405	32

verbum Austen Hom. de Sanct. 44 the seruant Iohn Baptist was borne of a barren woman IESVS the Sauiour of a Virgine the voice by a barren woman the word by a Virgine Mary was as a Palme Elizabeth as a Cedar Neuer such a Palme but many such Cedars Sara barren and yet the mother of Isaack Rebecca barren yet the mother of Iacob Rachei barren yet the mother of Beniamin Manoa barren yet the mother of Sampson Hanna barren yet the mother of Samuel Elizabeth barren yet the mother of Iohn Baptist the Father of my Text More blessed are these barren then they that had many children Isaack the Heyre apparant of the Promise Iacob the Supplanter little Beniamin the Patriarch Sampson the strong Samuel the Seer Iohn Baptist a Prophet and more then a Prophet all of them most Honourable in their generation the seed of the barren and yet many of them were sent to sow the barren world yea and out of the seede of the barren Isaacks seede became as the starres of Heauen or the sand of the Sea and all Nations of the earth were blessed in his seed The Eagles Embleme is sublimius to flye loftier euen to behold the Sunne as Plinie noteth the Sunnes Embleme is celerius swifter Ald. Emb. Sotinus Psal 19. the Gyant refreshed to runne his course as Dauid speaketh The Wheate in the Gospell hath this Embleme perfectius riper First the Blade then the eare then full corne Ezechiels Emblem is profundius deeper first to the ancles Marke 4.28 then to the knees Ezec. 47.4 then to the thighs Luke 14.10 Christes Emblem was Superius sit vp higher Carolus Quintus Embleme was vlierius Goe on further the woman with child hath this Embleme plenius fuller vntill she bring forth and so ought euery Christian that is not drie and hardened and barren and withered to mount loftier with the Eagle to runne swifter with the Sunne to grow riper with the Wheate to wade deeper with Ezechiel to sit vp higher with the Guest to passe on further with the Emperour to waxe fuller with the Woman that so they may bring foorth fruite in due season Many are long in bringing forth fruit they are as long barren as any The world hath expected Elephantinum Partum and yet when it hath beene brought forth Horatius Parturiunt montes nascetur ridiculus mus The best deede that euer they did was that they died and so the world was rid of such drie empty windy bare barren dead withered hardened Tenants who neuer did good or had any mind of goodnesse The Spouse in the Canticles is moued to come away for the Figge-tree sayeth Christ hath brought forth her young figges neuer did any tree bring forth better fruites then the Figge-tree and neuer did any tree bring forth worse fruits then the Fig-tree The good fruit was Zacheus who climbed into a tree that from a tree he might behold Christ who was to suffer on a tree for mans saluation this fig-tree bare most pretious fruite euen such as Christ himselfe vouchsafed to plucke a happy tree that bare such precious fruite as Zacheus was but thrise happy Zacheus that so happily climbed on that happy tree the tree brought forth Zacheus Zacheus brought forth a confession the tree such fruit that fruit such faith that Christ professed this day is Saluation come vnto this house Luke 19.9 forasmuch as he is also becomme a Sonne of Abraham Hee that could haue raysed out of the stones sonnes to Abraham hath raised out of a wild figge-tree a sonne vnto Abraham heere was the good fruit of the Figge-tree For the bad fruit the Rabbins affirm that the tree in Paradise from which Adam Eue tooke the forbidden fruit was a figge tree and many hold that the tree that Iudas hanged himselfe on was a fig tree as Iuuencus the Poet testifieth Exorsusque suas Laqueo sibi sumere poenas Informem rapuit ficus de vertice mortem And to these wee may ioyne that God cursed no tree but the figge tree Mald. in 27. Math. It was an inhumane speech of Timon when hee saw a woman hanging on a figge-tree that had hanged her selfe he wisht that all trees might beare such fruit it had beene a speech sauouring of humanity to haue said as Christ said of the figge-tree neuer such fruit grow on thee more The vse of the Doctrine is to moue vs that wee bee not vnfruitfull in the worke of the Lord The Vse hath God so cared for vs and planted and watered and dressed and hedged vs in The word the seed so oft falling Christ the son of righteousnesse so oft shining the dew of Heauen Manna so oft shedding the holy spirite the winde so often blowing and yet shall wee remaine dead drie barren hardned withered and accursed Trunkes In the Gospell of Luke you may obserue the Parable of the figge tree in the Vineyeard Luke 13.6 which did not bring foorth hee came and sought fruit and found none then said behold this three yeares haue I come and sought fruit of this figge-tree and finde none cut it downe why keepeth it the ground barren I know that some of the Fathers interprete it onely of the Synagogue of the Iewes and so that the three yeares wherein Christ expected fruit Greg. Hom. 31 in Euang. were the three times 1. before the Law 2. in the Law 3. after the Lawe as Gregory on the 31. Homily on the Gospell Ambr. in Luk. 13. or the three Lawes the first Naturall the second written by Moses the third Euangelicall by Christ as Ambrose vpon the 13. of Luke or the three gouernements of the Iewes the first vnder the High Priests Theoph. in La. can Atb. q. 16 the second vnder Iudges the third vnder Kings as Euth●mias on that Gospel obserueth But Theophilact and Athanasius and Saint Basil doe expound it more largely Basil Br. in Js 5. to signifie the three ages of Men Childhood youth and old age and that the Lord doth look expect fruit in euery one of these yeares in euery one of these States when hee hath expected againe and againe then hee proceedeth to that fearefull sentence Cut it down why keepeth it the ground barren It was the 21. of March this present Moneth as Maldonat on the Gospell obserueth Maldonat that Christ the way seeing a figge tree in the way he came to it and found nothing thereon and then said neuer fruit grow on thee henceforth Christ the way is yet in the way Mat. 21.19 he knoweth your sitting downe and your rising vppe hee vnderstandeth your thoughtes for hee is about your pathes and about your beds Psal 139.1 and spieth out all your wayes and wordes and works and thoughts If he should come as he hath often come and find no fruits in many of vs O how terrible would that sentence be Neuer beare henceforth Neuer no Neuer neither in this world nor