FRUIT. By Fruit is sometimes meant Ps. lvii. 12. Prov. i. 31. Ib. vii. 3. Ps. cxxxii. 12. Is. x. 12.reward. Si utique est fructus justo. And Solomon, Comedent fructus viæ suæ: They shall receive the reward of their bad conduct. The Fruit of the body signifies children; Of the Fruit of thy body shall I set upon thy seat. De fructu ventris tui ponam super sedem tuam. The Fruit of the lips; the punishment or reward of his words, according as they are bad or good. I will punish the Fruit of the stout heart of the King of Assyria. Visitabo super fructum magnifici cordis Regis Assyriæ. I will punish him for his insolent discourses against me. Uncircumcised Fruit, or impure, whereof there is mention in Leviticus, is the Fruitb for the three first years of a tree newly planted; it was reputed unclean, and no one was permitted to eat of it in all this time. In the fourth year it was offered to the Lord; after which it was common, and generally eaten. The Fruits of the Spirit spoken of by St. Gal. v. 22. Philip. i. 11. James iii. 18. Rom. vii. 5.Paul, are love, joy, peace. The Fruits of righteousness, mentioned by the same Apostle, are sown in peace. Irregular passions and carnal dispositions produce the Fruits of death: Ut fructificarent morti; they are mortal to the soul.
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