 | Jeremiah Seed - 1770 - 546 pages
...teaching us Patience and Refignation; and by weaning our Affections from Things below. Every Branch that beareth not Fruit, He taketh away \ and every Branch that beareth Fruit, He pur get h, or pruneth, that it may bring forth more Fruit : That is, by fome painful Operation,... | |
 | John Maclaurin - 1773 - 604 pages
...It is God that is the caufe of purging the branches. What are the means made ufe of, we are told ^ 3. " Now ye are clean " through the word which I have fpoken unto' " you." Which words are parallel to thofe already mentioned, Eph. v. zl5. " that he might fanftify and cleanfe... | |
 | 1779 - 688 pages
...St John xv. i. I Am the true vine, and my Father is the hufbandman. Every branch in me that beartrth not fruit, he taketh away ; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have fpoken unto... | |
 | Isaac Mann (bp. of Cork and Ross) - 1783 - 456 pages
...go hence (/). CHAP. XV. 1 T AM the true vine, and my Father is the hufband2 man. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away : and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it («), that it may bring forth more 3 fruit. Now ye are clean (£) through the word which 4 I have... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1786 - 158 pages
...then it has when mingled with the fire of the Holy Ghoft. And to this Chrift alludes, when hs faith, " Now ye are clean through the word which I have fpoken unto you.," John xv. 3. a• It was a figure of the word, without mixtureof mem inventions. Hence it is called... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pages
...Father ; and as the Father gave me commandment, even fo I do. Arife, let us go hence. CHAP. XV. I Am the true vine, and my Father is the hufbandman. 2 Every...fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have (poken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in. you. As the' branch cannot bear fruit of itfelf, except it... | |
 | 1789 - 754 pages
...the reverfe; and the words of the Gofpel would not unaptly have been applied to him: " Every branch that beareth not fruit, he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." In a word, the conftitution of the country in queftion his... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 506 pages
...branches. $42,J John xv. I, 2, "I am the true vine, and my father is the hii/bandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh, away ; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it," &c. Ver. 5, "I apa the vine, ye are the tranches." Mat. xv. 13, "Every plant which my heavenly... | |
 | Robert Macculloch - 1791 - 750 pages
...deprived of a fubftantial proof of God's kindnels and care toward his vineyard: ' Every branch in which ' that beareth not fruit, he taketh away : and every ' branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may * bring forth more fruit*.' Confidering this prophecy as looking forward to the captivity... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 500 pages
...Father is the Hufbandman. I am the Vine, ye are the Branches Г123] Every Branch in me thatbeareth not Fruit he taketh away: And every Branch that beareth Fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more Fruit. Now you are dean [EpheC. v. 26. 125.] through the Word which... | |
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 
