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The
Tryall
of
as
ver.
t
6.
he had ordained
to
bring
forth
fruit,
that
is,
io
fprirg
and
fpread
forth
in
the earth
in
all ages,
and
then
to
be
tran-
fplanted
unto
Heaven,
the
Paradife appointed
for
them
;
the
earth
being
but the
nurferie
of
them
for
a
while
:
Hence there-
fore
he
did
appoint
his
own
Sonne
to
be
a
new
root,
as
into
whom
he
meant
to
tranfplant
them,
and
ordained
him
to
be
that
bulk, and
body,
and
chide
branch
which
they
all
íhould
grow
out
of, who
is
therefore
called The
roote
ofDavid,
Rev. 22.
and
that
Righteous branch, Ter.
aa.
6.
Whom therefore
3.
he
planted
as
a roote
here
on
earth with
us,
and cloathed with
a
humane nature,
a
weak and mean bark
and body,
and
a
rind and
out. fide,
Each
as
ours
is
that
fo
both
roote
and branches might
be
of
the
fame
nature,
and
Homoge-
neall
:
which
nature
of
ours in
him, he likewife
filled
with
his
Spi-
rit
(as
with
juice
and fap)
without
all
meafure,
that
fo he
might
fruetife,
and
grow into
all
thofe
branches
appointed
to
be in
him,
by
communicating the
fame
fpirit
to
them.
And 4. although
he was
of
himfelfe
the
fair&
Cedar
that
ever
the
earth
bare,
yet
in
relation
to
thofe
multitude
of
branches,
he was
to
bear, chufeth
to
be a
Vine,
which
is
of
all
trees the
lowefl, the weakeft,
and
of
the
meanefl
bark, and
out
-fide
of
any
other,
onelybecaufe
of
all
others it
is
the plentifulleft
of
bran-
ches,
and
runs
out
and fpreads its
bulk in branches
;
and thofe,
of
all branches
elfe
of
any
other
trees, the
fruitfullefl,
it
is
there-
fore
called The
fruitful
Vine,
Pfal.
r
i
8.3.
and
for that
reafon
onely
doth
he
tingle
out
this
comparifon,
as
fulling
with
his
fcope, (hewing therein
his
love
;
that
as
he
condefcended
to
the
loweft condition,
for
our
fervation,
fo
to
the
meaneft refem-
blances
for
our
inftruCtion,
yet
fo
as
withall
he tells
us,
that
no
Vine,
nor
all the Vines on
earth were worthy
herein
to
be
coin-,
pared, nor
to
be
fo much
as
refemblances
of
him.
dbfer.
For
he, and
he
alone
is
the true
Vine,
that
is
the
fccond
Ob-
That
Chrift
is
fervation.
one),
the
For
take thofe
choiceft excellencies in a
Vine,
for
which
the
(True
Vine.]
comparifon
here
is
made,
as
more particularly,
that
of
fruitful-
ride
either
in
boughs
or
fruit, and
it
is
but
a
fhadow
of
that
which
is
in
him.
As
God
onely
is
[I
am
that
/am,
]
and
all
things
elfe have
but the shadow
of
Being
:
fo
Chrilt
alone
hash
lonely