Nor do they grow by Noise, any more than the vegetable Kingdom. An increasing Volubility of Tongue, and a blustering Profession, like a roaring Wind among Trees, are more likely to blow down than to impart Life. (James i. 26.)It is not so much the Interest of a Christian to talk about the Gospel, as to have his Heart moulded into the veryFrame and Fashion of it. Let his Spirit be truly evangelized, and his Conversation will then be as becometh the Gospel,as well as of theGospel. Grace is weighty, and leads to a Weight of Glory. It turns from Lightness and Trifling, as its Bane. (Eph. v. 4.) It dwells in a recollected Mind, a steady Heart, and a peaceful Soul. When the Professor has this within, him, he ceases to be a Rattle; knoin the Garden make a great Shew, but bear no Fruit. They are splendid in Leaves, and perhaps in Blossoms; but they yield either nothing fit to eat, or something not worth eating. The largest Species of Tree known in the World is the Baobabor CalibaJbTree of Senegal,which often exceeds seventy Feet in- the Circumference of the Trunk, and covers with its Boughs a Circle of above one hundred and thirty Feet in Diameter; but yields a Fruit, which, while it is unfit for Food, does not exceed the Size of a G 6 commonSoul, leave the aweful Blank, and turn inwards for a deep Examination and Proof of thine own Faith and Experience; lest, after treating of Christ and his holy Truths, thou thyself be only a CaJi-away!Dismal Reflection! It is sad Longchamp Discount for those, who are deplorably ignorant of the gospel, or who never heard its joyful Sound,to sall into Longchamp Handbag Perdition; but how much more dreadful must the Destruction of other Persons be, who have talked loud and writtenfair of their Knowledge in the Things of GOD,and yet have been actuated all the while by the selfish, proud, and unsanctified Motives of the Devil? Rather let me be an humble Shrub of a Span in Height, with lowly Branches bent by the Fruits of Grace, than all the Calibajhesin the World, with their spreading Boughs and useless Trunks. O that I may be a green Olive-tree in the House of my God,of whom my Fruit may be found,and to whom it may be acceptable, through Christ Jesus!VI. IT is a vulgar Error, that Plants feed upon the Soil itself, and derive their Increase from it. The Truth is, that the Soil itself is a Receiver of the vegetable Pasture from the Skies, and becomes a Repository or Reservoir of what it has received for the Support of the Trees or Herbs which may grow upon it, but imparts none of its own Substance to form their Substance, which is compounded of other and different Elements. In proof of this, an Orange Tree has been known to be planted in a Box, in which the Quantity of Earth was both measured and weighed, and to have grown for manyYearsYears to a considerable Size; but when the Earth (to which no Additions were made at any Time) was taken out, there was precisely the same Quantity and Weight as at the first. Again; every body knows, that only the upper Stratum or Sursace of the Earth, which has been either exposed to the Elements or mixed with things which have been exposed, is capable of supporting Plants. And Soils are good or Longchamp Discount bad, as they are more or less recipient and retentive of the celestial Fluids. Sandy Soils, for instance, receive easily; but, being compounded of little more than an Assemblage of very small Stones (as may be discerned immediately by a Microscope) they as easily pass through them.