this may be illustrated by a comparison taken from a fig-tree: when the branches become tender, and push out their leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

Consider this similitude taken from a fig-tree: when its branch is yet tender, and pushes out its leaves, you know that summer is near:

through the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun has visited us from on high,

they watch'd then, and suborn'd spies, who under pretence of their tender consciences, might ensnare him in his discourse, and so betray him to the civil power and jurisdiction of the governor.

be mutually kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

we behav'd to you with a tender regard, even as a mother, who nurses her own children.

to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions.

of others be compassionately tender, snatching them, as it were, out of the fire: and avoid even the garment of the infected.