I trade abroad, yet ftay at home i; I can be prifon'd, yet abroad; Bound hand and foot, yet walk with God SECT. IX. The mystery of various names given to faints and church of Chrift; or, The flesh and Spirit defcribed from inanimate things, vegetables and fenfitives. 10 tell the world my proper name, Is both my glory and my fhame d: Phil. iii. 20. For our converfation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jefus Chrift. k 2 Cor. v. 1, 2. For we know, that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were diffolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, For in this we groan earnestly, defiring to be cloathed upon with our houfe which is from heaven. v. 4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be fwallowed up of life. / Acts xvi. 24, 25. The jailor, having received such a charge, thruft them into the inner prifon, and made their feet faft in the ftocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and fang praises unto God. 2 Tim. ii. 9. Wherein I fuffer trouble as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. 2. Cor. vi. 4, s. But in all things ap. proving ourselves as the minifters of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in neceffities, in diftreffes, in ftripes, in imprifonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in faftings. a Hof. i. 9. Then faid God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. And ii. 1. Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi, and to your fifters, Ruhamah. v. 23. And I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy, and I will fay to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they fhall fay, Thou art my God. T For like my black but comely face, To various things inanimate ; A flanding lake c, a running flood d, A Cake unturn'd, nor cold, nor hot g; b Song i. 5. I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerufalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 1 Tim. i. 15. This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all ac ceptation, that Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave finners; of whom I am chief. Ifa. Ixii. 2, 3. And the Gentiles fhall fee thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord fhall name. Thou shalt alfo be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. c Jer. xlviii. 11. Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath fettled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from veffel to veffel, neither hath he gone into captivity: there fore his taste remained in him, and his fcent is not changed. d Ifa. xliv. 3. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon thy feed, and my bleffing upon thine offspring. e Dan. xii. 3. And they that be wife, fhall fhine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righ teousness, as the stars for ever and ever— -And in oppofition to thofe called wandering ftars, Jude 13. f Hof. vi. 4. O Ephraim, what fhall I do unto thee ?0 Judah, what fhall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. g Hof. vii. 8. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. Ephraim is a cake not turned. Rev. iii. 15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. h Rom. ix. 21. Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the fame lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto difhonour? i Pfalm xxxi, 12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken veffel. A rifing fun k, a drooping wing 1; k Matth. xiii. 43. Then shall the righteous fhine forth as the fun, in the kingdom of their Father. / Pfalm Iv. 6. And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. m Zech. vii. 12. They made their hearts as an adamant ftone, left they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hofts hath fent in his fpirit by the former prophets. n John iv. 13, 14. Jefus anfwered and faid unto herWhofoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst: but the water that I fhall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. o Ifa. xvii. 9, 10. In that day fhall his strong cities be as a forfaken bough, and an uppermoft branch, which they left, becaufe of the children of Ifrael: and there fhall be defolation. Becaufe thou haft forgotten the God of thy falvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength: therefore fhalt thou plant pleasant plants, and fhalt fet it with ftrange flips. Chap. xxvii. 11. When the boughs thereof are withered, they fhall be broken off: the women came and fet them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding, &c. p Prov. xi. 28. The righteous fhall flourish as a branch. Pfalm xcii. 12, 13. The righteous fhall flourish like the palmtree: he shall grow like the cedar in Lebanon. Thofe that be planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courts of our God. g lfa. xxx. 22. Ye shall defile also the covering of my gra ven images of filver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt caft them away as a menftruous cloth, fhail fay unto it, Get thee hence. Chap. Ixiv. 6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteoufneffes ars as filthy rags. r Ifa. Ixii. 3. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Song iv. 2. A garden inclofed is my fifter, my spouse. Of various vegetables fee A fair and lively map in me. A fragrant rofe v, a noifome weed w; I'm with'ring grafs z, and growing corn a; them, faying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which fowed good feed in his field: but while men flept, his enemy came, and fowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. Song iv. f. [My fifter is] a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and ftreams from Lebanon. Song iv. 1. A spring shut up, a fountain fealed is my fifter, my spouse. Ifa. xxxv. 1. The wilderness and the folitary place fhall be glad for them; and the defart fhall rejoice, and bloffom as the rofe. w Ifa. v. 4. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes. x Gen. iii. 19. In the fweat of thy face fhalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou ta ken for duft thou art, and unto duft fhalt thou return. : 1 Pet. i. 23. Being born again, not of corruptible feed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever. z Ifa. xl. 7. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; be. cause the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: furely the peo ple is grafs. a Hol. xiv. 7. They that dwell under his shadow shall re turn, they fhall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the - fcent there of shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 6 Ifa. v. 7. The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Ifrael, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. c Mic. vii. 4. The best of them is a brier: the most upright is fharper than a thorn-hedge. d Hof. x. 1. Ifrael is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himfelf. A noxious brier h, a harmless pine i; A noble oak o, a naughty rufh p. e Pfalm i. 3. And he fhall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his feafon; his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doth fhall profper. f Ezek. xvii. 5, 6. He [a great eagle] took alfo of the feed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field, he placed it by great waters, and fet it as a willow tree. And it grew, and became a fpreading vine of low ftature, whofe branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: fo it be came a vine, and brought forth branches, and fhot forth fprigs. v. 24. And all the trees of the field fhall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it. Mark iv. 30, 31. And Jefus faid, Wherein shall we liken the kingdom of God? or, with what comparison fhall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard feed, which, when it is fown in the earth, is lefs than all the feeds that be in the earth. g Pfalm xcii. 13. The righteous thall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. h Mic. vii. 4. Sec letter c. i Ifa. xli. 19. I will fet in the defart the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together.. k John xv. 4. 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. v. 6. If a man abide not in me, he is calt forth as a branch, and is withered. John xv. 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. Song ii. 13. The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. v. 15. Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes. m lfa. lv. 13. Instead of the thorn fhall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree; and it fhall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlafting fign that |