...beings righteous and acceptable with GOD. Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt ; for the tree is known by his fruit. Hence, as the love of GOD is the love of goodness, absolute and unqualified — where this principle...

...AND CHRISTIAN PRACTICE. MATTHEW, xii. 33. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else mate the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt : for the tree is known by his fruits. ON different occasions lately I have attempted to delineate the various features of the Christian...

...§ SECTION XVII. MATTHEW xn. 33 — 45. EITHER make the tree good, and his fruit good: or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt : for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the...

...a corrupt tree bringeth forth eeiifrmi.] Either make the tree good, and his fruk good, or else make d is a discerner of the " parable spake he unto them, The kingdo kit fruits. Mat. xii. 33. О generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good thiue> ? For...

...truth, to their inevitable condemnation. 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruitgood ; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt : for the tree is known by Ais fruit. These words may either refer to the Pharisees, or to Christ himself. If to the Pharisees,...

...of God to the agency 182 AD 31. 183 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good ; or else make hey had seen him, were of course Jews, and Jews who from their office and cha of Satan, proves indubitably that the sin might not only at that time be committed, but was actually...

...goodness: as our Saviour Christ saitli, " either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by his fruit." 3 So that, as our reformers say ' of works before justification" : 4 " works done before the grace...

...discovered by its effects. " Either," says he, " make the tree good, and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt : for the tree is known by his fruit." The same inference is manifestly to be drawn from the language of the apostle Paul, when he tells us...

...Jam. ii, 15, 16. Matt, xii, 33. ' Either make the tree good and his [its] fruit good ; or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt : for the tree is known by his fruit.' Here are three grammatical errors in one verse : but the object of this note is rather a paraphrase,...

...remain unconverted. Therefore Christ says, Either make the tree good and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt : for the tree is known by his fruit. O ye generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things ? for out of the abundance of...