Bending Twigs and Plucking Plants

No. 374

Young twigs are easily bent and made to grow another way, old trees most difficultly. So persons in youth are more easily turned than others. Again, a young plant is much more easily plucked up by the roots, than after it hath long stood and is rooted deep in the ground. So is it more easy to forsake sin in the beginning, than after a long continuance in it. - WJE 11:59

CORPUS NOTECARDS

None

TERMS & REFERENCES

Term Set A: twigs trees plant plants roots

Term Set B: young youth old sin

Max Distance Between Terms = 6

Reference List A/B

3:301 - Original Sin (WJEO 3)
6:246 - Scientific and Philosophical Writings (WJEO 6)
6:257 - Scientific and Philosophical Writings (WJEO 6)
9:236 - A History of the Work of Redemption (WJEO 9)
11:59 - Typological Writings (WJEO 11)
11:83 - Typological Writings (WJEO 11)
13:279 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
22:324 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742 (WJEO 22)
22:451 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742 (WJEO 22)
24:405 - The Blank Bible (WJEO 24)
24:540 - The Blank Bible (WJEO 24)
25:105 - Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758 (WJEO 25)
25:106 - Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758 (WJEO 25)
36:3 - Sermon Notebooks (WJEO 36)
46:27 - Sermons, Series II, 1731-1732 (WJEO 46)
51:22 - Sermons, Series II, 1736 (WJEO 51)
53:6 - Sermons, Series II, 1738, and Undated, 1734-1738 (WJEO 53)
57:3 - Sermons, Series II, January-June 1741 (WJEO 57)
61:2 - Sermons, Series II, 1743 (WJEO 61)
62:7 - Sermons, Series II, 1744 (WJEO 62)

Reference List B/A

3:397 - Original Sin (WJEO 3)
6:246 - Scientific and Philosophical Writings (WJEO 6)
9:489 - A History of the Work of Redemption (WJEO 9)
11:59 - Typological Writings (WJEO 11)
11:89 - Typological Writings (WJEO 11)
17:137 - Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733 (WJEO 17)
17:340 - Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733 (WJEO 17)
19:323 - Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738 (WJEO 19)
19:328 - Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738 (WJEO 19)
24:540 - The Blank Bible (WJEO 24)
24:603 - The Blank Bible (WJEO 24)
24:744 - The Blank Bible (WJEO 24)
25:105 - Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758 (WJEO 25)
25:106 - Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758 (WJEO 25)
30:5 - Prophecies of the Messiah (WJEO 30)
30:6 - Prophecies of the Messiah (WJEO 30)
36:3 - Sermon Notebooks (WJEO 36)
42:10 - Sermons, Series II, 1723-1727 (WJEO 42)
43:7 - Sermons, Series II, 1728-1729 (WJEO 43)
46:7 - Sermons, Series II, 1731-1732 (WJEO 46)
46:8 - Sermons, Series II, 1731-1732 (WJEO 46)
50:8 - Sermons, Series II, 1735 (WJEO 50)
53:6 - Sermons, Series II, 1738, and Undated, 1734-1738 (WJEO 53)
55:18 - Sermons, Series II, January-June 1740 (WJEO 55)
56:20 - Sermons, Series II, July-December 1740 (WJEO 56)
57:3 - Sermons, Series II, January-June 1741 (WJEO 57)
61:2 - Sermons, Series II, 1743 (WJEO 61)
62:7 - Sermons, Series II, 1744 (WJEO 62)