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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

The Apostle is not wanting Ephes 4.4.5 6. A seven fold obligation lies upon us for preserving of i● First The Church is but one body as we said before and we are members of that body Now as in the body of man the members though divers and of divers offices sweetly agree Rom. 12.5 1 Cor. 12.25 27. So should it be with the Church the Mystical body of Christ Rom. 12.5 1 Cor. 12.25 27. Me thinks this very consideration should the Apostle bring no more might prevaile with us to forbear discord and agree in one Livy tells us a Story That when the Common wealth of Rome was in great danger Decad. 1. Lib. 2. through the broyles that arose between the Commons and Nobles of that City The Senate sent Menenius Agrippa a famous Orator to pacify the People who told them this Parable The Members of the Body objected against the Stomach that it devoured all and yet lay idly and sluggishly in the midst of the Body whilst the rest of the Member laboured full sore to feed it thereupon the Feet refused to carry it the Hand to put Meat to the Mouth the Mouth to receive it The Stomach being empty the Eye began to be dimn the Hand weak the Feet feeble all the Members grew faint and the Body withered so that at last they were all necessitated to grow friends with the Stomach and be at one By which Parable he quie●ed the people And I could wish it might prevail with us For as the health and safety of the Body depends upon the concord of the Parts in the mutuall performance of their dutyes so doth the well fare of the Church when we shew out selves to be Members one of another Secondly There is one Spirit which we are all partakers of 1 Cor. 12.13 Ephes 2.18 As in the naturall body there are not divers Souls 1 Cor. 12.13 Eph. 2.18 according to the diversity of Members but one that gives life and motion to every Member and quickens it so is it in the body of Christ and this Spirit is the Spirit of Union it keeps all together which else would shatter and fall asunder How can such think they have this Spirit that live in discord Hear what St. Jude saith of such ver 19. They are sensuall Jude 19. and have not the Spirit We need not load them with any other guilt than that Are you not carnall saith the Apostle to the contentious Corinthians 1 Cor. 3.3 Yes you are 1 Cor. 3.3 Rom. 8.6 and void of the Spirit and to be carnally minded is death Rom. 8.6 Thirdly One hope of our Calling that is we are called unto one and and the same Inheritance which we all hope for where we shall live sweetly and blessedly together Fall not out therefore by the way as Joseph said to his Brethren It is shame Gen. 45.24 and pity to see discord and contention between them that must forever live together in peace and love Indeed it is a sad sight to behold two Heirs to be at daggers drawing when the Inheritance cannot nor shall be divided Fourthly One Lord which is our head Christ Jesus whose Cognisance and Livery is Love and Unity John 13.35 Joh. 13.35 This Cognisance was so apparent in the Livery of Christians who lived in the Primitive times that the very Heathen knew a Christian by it See said they how they love one another Tertull. And see said the Christians of them How they bate one another Is it not a great dishonour to our Lord and Master that we cast off this Livery so that now the very Heathen may say of us as then Christians said of them See what differences what discords are amongst them Had we many Lords to serve no wonder if we differed for no man can serve two Masters Mat. 6.24 Zeph. 3.9 much lesse many but seeing we have but one Lord to obey let us put one shoulder to his work Fifthly One Faith which is the Soul of our Souls One whether we understand it of the Doctrine of Faith which is beleived called in Athanasius his Confession the Catholique Faith of all Christians or of the Gift of Faith whereby we believe to Justification which Grace is but one and the same in all the Elect 2 Pet. 1.1 2 Pet. 1.1 Tit. 1.4 and therefore called the common Faith Tit. 1.4 for that all Beleivers do by one and the same Faith believe in one and the same Christ As there is but one Church in the Faith so but one Faith in the Church Una fides specie non una numero One Faith in nature not one in number One ratione Objecti which is Christ not one ratione Subjecti For every Believer hath his own Faith Hab. 2.4 Hab. 2.4 Mar. 5.34 And so there are as many Faiths as there are Beleivers We may say of Faiths as of Faces Facies non omnibus una Non diversa tamen One Light many Raies one Fountain many Streams This Faith being but one we should therefore study to keep the unity of it in the bond of Love and so compose our Affections as that we may go out with one heart and one mind in the profession of it We can do nothing saith the Apostle against the truth but for the truth 2 Cor. 13.8 2 Cor. 13.8 So long as there is found agreement in fundamental truths betwixt us and dissenting Brethren it shall be our wisdom to silence our disputes and leave off wranglings about matters meerly notionall and curious But if in case this One Faith which was once for all given to the Saints be resisted by gainsayers then it is our duty to contend for it Jude v. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as we are required Jud. ver 3. and conflict one after another as the word signifies Sixthly One Baptism which is the Seal of the aforesaid Faith The Apostle indeed elsewhere speaks of Baptisms Heb. 6.2 Exp●ained Heb. 6.2 as if there were more then one but the Apostle there either puts one number for another the Plural for the Singular as we find it ●ometimes put so some conceive Or because certain times were appointed for Baptism as Easter and Whitsontide so others or in regard of the three Immersions that were used in Baptism to signify the Trinity for the party baptized was wont to be three times dipped in the water and therefore he might call it Baptisms or dippings Or else by way of Allusion to the manifold washings or Baptisms under the Law and so by Baptisms is meant that Doctrine which teacheth the cessation of them and the use of one Baptizing only instituted by Christ and so the rest abolished Or else it is to be understood of the Outward and Inward Washing which the Schools call Baptismum Flaminis Fluminis The Baptism of Water and of the Spirit that Washing af Regeneration Tit. 3.5 and the renewing of the holy Ghost Tit. 3.5 The

signification of both which were taught the people in those times that they might learn to put difference betwixt Baptism by the Minister which an Hypocrite may have and the Inward Baptism by the Spirit which Christ bestoweth on his own Elect And that they might be instructed in the nature of the Sacrament and the signification thereof and withall it might be of the Baptism of suffering affliction for the Gospel whereunto the Sacrament of Baptism obligeth The first and the last of these Expositions are most followed but the latter best approved However the Apostle speaks of Baptisms not for that men were often to be baptized as some would have it For as we are born once so baptized but once They were but once circumcised under the Law and we are but once to be baptized in time of the Gospel nor that Christ instituted more Baptis●s ●hen one And this one Ba●tism wherein we are all ba●tized with water into the Name of On● God Fa●her Son and Holy Ghost should be a strong motive unto us to live in Unity and godly Love this being one use of Baptism amongst others to distinguish Christians from other Sects 1 Cor. 12.13 and to knit the hearts of Christians together in a holy Communion 1 Cor. 12.13 Seventhly and Lastly One God and Father of all who above all things delighteth in the Unanimity of his Children Mal. 2.10 Have we not all one Father saith Malachy Yes we have Why then dissent and jarr we can we think it a matter pleasing unto God Is it not one of those six things that God hates Pro. 6.19 Discord amongst Brethrens Prov. 6.19 We are Brethren both by the Father and Mother's side and it is a shame for Brechren in nature to be separated in Affection so much more sinful and shameful for those whom Grace hath joyned whom one heavenly Father Faith and Religion hath coupled to be be disunited and make a breach in the Body of Christ Gen 13.8 Let there be no strife between me and thee said Abraham to Lot for we are Brethren The very name of Brotherhood is an Argument of Unity and hath a sweet violence to perswade Abraham could find no such enforcing motive to peace as it Moses used the like Argument to those two Hebrews that were striving together Fall not out said he for ye are Brethren Act. 7.26 And when the Servants of Benhadad observed the word Brother to come from the mouth of Ahab they hastily laid hold on it as an excellent praeparative to the setling of those differences which were betwixt those two Princes 1 King 20.33 1 King 20.33 But how little doth it prevail in these daies We find that true which Solomon speaks by woful experience Pro. 18.19 A Brother offended is harder to be wonn then a strong City and their contentions are like the Bars of a Castle Prov. 18.19 The War that is betwixt spiritual Brethren is almost irreconcileable our dissentions are like that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great Gulph spoken in the Gospell through which there is no passage of meeting Let us be earnest with God Luk. 16.26 Ezek. 37.7 that he would shew his power in the compounding of them it is he alone that must do do it the Wind of his Spirit must blow upon these bones before they ever come together To these seven Motives used by the Apostle tending to Unity more might be brought both from the good of it and the ill or discord But I have been somewhat prolix already in this Use but the Usefulnesse thereof may excuse me I have out a word or two to say more and so I shall dismiss the Point If the Church be but One One entire Body made up by the Collection and Aggregation of all the Faithfull Use 3 unto the Unity thereof then it must follow for our comfort that we may claim a right one in another to care one for another pray one for another and have Christian Communion one with another as the naturall Members of the Body have in the the Body In all Church Ordinances and Rites we may claim and Interest for our Salvation 1 Cor. 12. 1 Cor. 3.21.22 In the Gifts of all God's Ministers we have a Right and Title and may as occasion shall be offered make use of them The Priviledges of the Catholique Church the Communion of Saints the Forgiveness of Sins the Resurrection of the Body and Life everlasting all are ours None of us that are of the Body neither Particular Persons nor Particular Congregations are to work as severall divided bodies by themselves but as parts conjoyned to the whole all of us are as in a shop when one servs this Customer another that to bring to the common box and in imploying of our gifts to aim at the good of the body for every one within the Church hath such a Relation unto and dependance upon the Church as parts use to have in respect of the whole which is full of comfort and encouragement being well digested But enough hath been said concerning this speciall property of the Vineyard's Unity Now briefly of the Owner 's peculiar Interest and Propriety therein It is His Vineyard How His Quest Is he the Owner and Possessor of no more but that and the Figg-tree mentioned thereon growing The whole Earth is the Lord's and the fullnesse thereof the round World Resp. Psal 24.1 and they that dwell therein saith the Psalmist Psal 24.1 and yet in regard of the Affection that he bears unto the Church he doth in a manner count himself owner of nothing but this The Church is the peculiar Inheritance of the Lord Doct. Deu. 32.9 Exod. 19.5.6 Isa 46.13 Ezek. 7.20 He doth more respect it that he doth all the World besides The Lord's Portion is his People Jacob is the Lot of his Inheritance saith Moses Deut 32.9 they are his peculiar ones Exod 19.5.6 His Glory Isa 46.13 his Ornament Ezek. 7.20 His Thorne Jer. 4.21 His Diadem Isa 62.3 Jer. 4.21 Isa 6.2 3 4. Reas 1. His Hepthzibah Isa 62.4 his onely delight is in her He hath chosen then from the rest of the World Onely the Lord had a delight in thy Fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as it is this day said Moses to Israell Deut. 10.15 The Lord hath chosen Zion Deut. 10.15 Ps 132.13 14. 1 Pet. 2.9 he hath desired it for his Habitation saith David Psal 132.13 14. Ye are a chosen Generation saith Peter 1 Epist 2.9 God chooseth for his Love and loves for his Choice they are called His by Election He hath purchased his Inheritance with a great price the whole world cost him not so much as his Church did it was bought with blood not as Ahab 1 King 21.15 who purchased Naboth's Vineyard by the cruell shedding of the right owners blood and unjust robbing of the right Possessor of it but by