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 he is called a Sun, and sometimes he is called a Door; sometimes he called the Tree of Life; sometimes he is called one thing, and sometimes another; and he is content to be called any thing, to make himself known to us; and here he is called a Plant, and a Renowned Plant; but more of this afterwards. But then,

3dly, We have the production of this Plant, I will raise him up. Hell will endeavour to keep him down; the Devil and his Angels will endeavour to smother him, when he sets his head above ground: So we find Satan sends Herod, and Herod sends the bloody dragoons to murder him, when he came into the world: But let hell do its utmost, as it hath done in all ages, and is doing this day, to smother that Plant, up it will be; I will raise him up, and therefore he shall prosper. But then again,

4thly, We may notice here, For whom, or for what end, for whose use and benefit it is: I will raise up for them a plant of Renown. Who these are, you will send by casting your eye on the former part of the chapter; it is for the Lord’s flock, his oppressed heritage, that are born down by wicked rulers, civil and ecclesiastic: I will raise up for them a plant of Renown, and he will be their Deliverer.

The Doctrine that naturally arises from this first clause of the verse, is in short this, "That