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a
Chriflians
Growth.
3
3.
He
inculcates
into them the
fenfe
of
their
owne
inability
to
doe
any
thing without him,
ver.
5.
4.
Therefore
to
abide in
him,
and
fuck
from
him,
ver.
5.
5.
And
to
let
his
Word abide
in
them, by
which
himfelfe
fball
alfo abide in
them,
and
by
which
they may
(till
be
purged,
and fo
be fruitful!.
The motives
are,
i.
If
not,
they
know
their doome,
to
the
fire with them,
ver.
6.
2.
If
they
doe, their prayers (hall
be
granted,
ver.
7.
3.
Hereby
his
Father
is
glorified,
ver.
8.
4.
They (hail (hew themfelves
his
Difciples, ver.
8.
5.
They fhall
continue
in his
love,
who
loves
them
as
dearly
as
his
father doth
him,
ver.
9,
to.
And
fo
you
have
the fumme
of
all
this Parable.
The
principal!
fubjea
I
aime
at
in
this
Scripture,
is
this
maine
cafe
of
Confcíence, which ufeth
to
be
the
exercife,
and
inquifi-
tion
of
many
good
fouls,
How
a
Chriflian
may difcerne his
growth,
both
in
purging
out corruptions,
and increafe
of
grace,
and the fruits
of
it.
Therefore
what
ever
other
fpreading fruitful' obfervations
grow
upon this flock,
(and
this
Vine affords many) wee
will
but
fhortly,
and
as
men
in
hafle,
view
and take notice
of, but
as
in
our
way
to
that
other
which
I
principally
intend,
and onely
fo
far
flay
upon the obfervation
of
them,
as
the bare opening
this
firnilitude here ufed,
loth
give fap
and vigour
to
them.
The
firft
obfervation,
how
Chrift
is a
Vine,
and
onely
the
true Vine.
Firft, Chrill
,
he is
a
Vine.
To
explaine this
firft.
Adam
indeed
was
a
Vine, planted
in
Paradife,
to
beare
all
Mankinde upon,
but
he
turned
a
wild
one,
he
proved
not
the
true
Vine.
God
planted
him
(to
allude
to that,
fer.
2.
21.)
A
noble Vine,
a
holy
and
right
feed,
but
he
degenerated,
and fo have
all
engraffed
on him, and
fo
bring
forth
nothing
but grapes of
Sodome, as
Ifaiah fpeakes,
But
2.
God
the Father
having many bran
hes
of
chofen
ones,
that
grew
by
nature
on
this cuffed
flock,
of
Adam,
whom
yet,
as,
z.