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 and with David, "Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon the earth that I desire besides thee". Again,

Fourthly, Another thing I remark, is That this blessed Plant of Renown, he was cut down in his death, and sprung up gloriously in his resurrection; the sword of divine Justice shewed down this Plant upon Mount Calvary, but within three days he sprung up again more glorious and more beautiful and amiable than ever; and "He was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead."

Lastly, I would have you to remark, That all the little plants in the garden are ingrafted in this Plant of Renown: "I am the Vine ye are the branches; he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: For without me ye can do nothing.—I am a green Fir-tree, from me is thy fruit found." If you be not ingrafted, firs, in this Plant, you will never grow; and all the trees that are not planted in him, they are all but weeds.—There is a time coming when all the weeds will be plucked up, and therefore take heed that you be ingrafted in him by a faith of God’s operation. So much for the first thing I proposed. The