It The Trya11 of z. Difference. How Hypo- crires bring not forth their fruit [in Chat] glorified , Efay 61.3. Again , not fruit meete or fuita6le for the roote it feemes to grow upon, that is, fuch as Chrift did bring forth ; for he did all, that his Father might be glor:ficd : and therefore fayes he, exhorting them to fruitfulneflè, ver. 8, of this Chl. Ifyou doe 1ikewife, ye;hall bee my Difciples. Againe, otherwife it is not fuch as is meet for the Huebandmans toile and relifh., it being equall that He that planteth a Vineyard, fhould ease thefruit of it, 1 ('or. 8.7. And in fruit you know above all we regard the tafte, and efleeme the relifhof it. Eve ñrft confide- red thefruit zvasgoodforfood, then pleafant to the eye, Gen. 3. It is not the fap that is in fruit only makes it acceptable ; Crabs areas fall of fap as apples : Nor is it the greenneffe, or colour, or bigneffe, but the relifh that is the chiefeft excellencie in it; though thole other, when joyned with a good relifh, do hake it more defirable : So though thy performancs be full of life and affetlion, and green, and long, and many, yet if they relifh and tafte of.none but felf-ends, God regards them not, theyare not stdgufiumfuum; it is the end that gives the relifh, and make6 them fruits, and acceptable to God. The fecond difference this 'text holds forth, is, That they bring not forth their fruit in Chrifl : for fo the Syriack Tranfla. tion reads it, as making the fenfe to be, that they bring notforth fruit in me : and fo this particle [Inme] referreth not fo much co their being branches in him, as to not bearing their fruit in him. Which indeed feems to have been Chrifits meaning, for his fcope in this Parable is to Phewhow that he is the root of Sanïlification and how not the habitual!. power onely, but every aft of grace, and the performance, comes from him ; W'itbout me ye can doe Ld nothing, ver. 5. And thereupon he exhorts his iples to fetch allfrom him, and to abide in him ; and therefore allo, when he Beaks of thefe unfruitfall branches at ver. 6. that which here he calls bearing not fruit in me, he expreifes there, by not abiding in iv , as the caule of their not bringing fortis fruit in him. Yea, and the principali fcope of that phrafe, Abile in me, is, (ais evidently appeares by ver. 4, 5.) to depend upon him for bring- ing forth of fruit , and to fetch ftrength from hire by faith. There is therefore this eftntiall defect in tht wort,:,that is upon fuch,, that they doe not doe all in that dependance upon
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