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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37290	An exposition of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah by the endeavours of W. Day ...	Day, William, ca. 1605-1684.	1654 (1654)	Wing D472; ESTC R6604	788,151	544

in the midst of it By this Tower is meant Hierusalem which was the strongest fortresse of all that Country And also made a Wine-presse therein By this is meant the Altar of Hierusalem which ran with the bloud of the slain beast as the Winepress did with the juyce of the prest grapes And he looked that it should bring forth grapes By grapes are meant work●s of Righteousnesse v. 7. And it brought forth wild grapes By wild grapes are meant wo●k●s of unrighteousness● v. 7. c. 3. And now O Inhabitants of Hierusalem and men of Judah judge I pray you betwixt me and my Vineyard q. d. And now O Inhabitants of Hierusalem and men of Judah speak your selves whether I or my Vineyard that is whether I or you be in the fault that for works of Righteousnesse ye bring forth works of unrighteousnesse 4. What could I have done more to my Vineyard that I have not done in it q. d. What greater kindnesse could have been shewed to a People than I have shewed to you that I might induce you to obey my Commandements and work the workes o● righteousnesse Wher●fore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes brought it forth wild grapes q. d. Why then when I looked that ye should work the works of Righteousnesse did y● work the works of unrighteousnesse And now go to I will tell you what I will 〈◊〉 to my Vineyard q. d. And now go to I will tell you how I will deal with you my People 5. I will take away the hedge there●f and 〈◊〉 shall be eaten up and beat d●wn the wall thereof and it shall be trodden d●wn i. e. I will forsake you and be your Shield and defence no longer but suffer your enemies to invade you and spoile you 6. And I will lay it waste it shall not be pruned nor digged but there shall come u● briars and thornes i. e. No body shall have any care of you or respect to you I will also command the Clouds that they rain no rain upon it i. e. I will also withhold my loving kindnesse from my Vine-yard that is from you 7. The house of Israel and the men of Judah These two phrases signifie the same men and are but a repetition of the same thing in divers words That Israel is taken for Judah See Chap. 1. vers 3. And the men of Judah his pleasant Plant. Under the Men of Judah we must comprehend the Men of Benjamin also which clave to the Tribe of Judah in the Schisme made by Jeroboam Which men may be called Gods pleasant Plant because they revolted not to Idolatry as the other ten Tribes did but retained the worship of God for which he had more pleasure in them than in the ten Tribes though at length they revolted also He looked for judgement i. e. He looked for upright dealings in the Courts of Justice and that Justice should be administred with an even hand to the poore as well as to the rich See Cap. 1. v. 21. This place concerneth Judges and those which had to do in Courts of Justice But behold oppression But instead of Judgement he findes oppression to wit oppression of the poor and fatherlesse and widdow For righteousnesse but behold a cry This is a repetition of the former Sentence and a cry is taken here for oppression and wrong because oppression and wrong cause those which are oppressed and wronged to cry Metonymia effecti Here the prophet beginneth to shew what those wilde grapes were which the Vineyard of the Lord brought forth 8. Woe unto them that joyne house to house c He sheweth here more wilde grapes which the Lords Vineyard brought forth That is more sinnes of the house of Israel and men of Judah But he changeth a little his manner of speaking of them from what he used in the former verse speaking here of them with a woe to them which did commit such things which he did not there Woe to them which joyne house to house and field to field i. e. Woe to them which buy more housen to those which they have already and more fields to those which they have already He taxeth here their insatiable covetousnesse Till there be no place Supple For the Poor to dwell in Or till there be no place Supple which they have not got into their own hands In the midst of the earth i. e. In the earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By the earth is meant the land of Judah or Judaea which is often called the earth per Synecdochen integri 9. In mine cares said the Lord of Hosts i. e. The Lord of Hosts said in my hearing Many houses shall be desolate These houses were made desolate because the Inhabitants were forced to flie or were destroyed or led away captive by their enemies Even great and faire q. d. Even their great and fair houses upon which they have spent so much cost shall be desolate This is the punishment of their joyning house to house a punishment answering to their sin 10. Yea. i. e. And. For so must we interpret this Particle Yea making it a Copulative coupling the other part of the punishment which answereth to the other part or Species of the sin to the first part thereof Or Yea may signifie q. d. Yea which is yet more wonderfull than that c. Ten Acres of Vineyard An Acre is asmuch ground as a Yoke of Oxen can plow in a day It is held to be a space of ground containing 240 feet in length and 120 in breadth Shall yeeld one Bath i. e. Shall yeeld but one Bath of wine q. d. Ten Acres of Vineyard shall yeeld no more grapes than will make one Bath of wine How much a Bath contained being there is such variety about it I determine not Some make it to containe nine Gallons and three quarts of our measure Others seven gallons one pottle three ounces three quarters and a half and twelve graines Others four gallons and a half According to the greatest of which accounts one Acre of Vineyard would not yeeld one gallon of wine And the seed of an Homer shall yeeld an Ephah i. e. And an Homer of seed being sowed shall yeeld but one Ephah Note that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 onely is here to be understood Whatsoever was the just measure of an Homer according to our measures of which it is not yet agreed an Ephah was but the Tenth part of an Homer Ezekiel cap. 45. ver 11. As he threatned a desolation or that that many houses should be without Inhabitants for their joyning house to house So he threatneth here that their Land should scarce yeeld the tenth part of the seed which was sowne for their joyning field to field When and how this came to passe we have no certaine ground to revolt yet we doubt not but what the Prophet here speakes of was fullfilled in its due time 11. Wee unto them that rise up