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have I in heaven but thee, and there is none upon the earth that I desire besides thee.” Again,
4. Another thing I remark, is. That this blessed Plant of renown was cut down in his death, and sprung up gloriously in his resurrection; the sword of Divine Justice hewed down this blessed plant upon Mount Calvary, but within three days he sprung up again more glorious, and more beautiful, and more amiable than ever, and He was declared to he 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 this thing, That all the little. plants in the garden are ingrafted in this Plant of renown. I am the Vine, ye are the branches, the man abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit, For without me, ye can do nothing,—I am a green fig-tree, from me is this fruit found.” If you be not ingrafted, sirs, in this Plant, you will never grow, and all the trees that are not planted in him, they are all but weeds; and 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.
