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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10928	The vvild vine: or, An exposition on Isaiah's parabolicall song of the beloued: Isa. 5. 1,2,3, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, pastor of Messing in Essex; Strange vineyard in Palæstina	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1632 (1632)	STC 21200; ESTC S116115	254,274	348

THE WILD VINE OR AN EXPOSITION ON ISAIAH'S PARABOLICALL Song of the Beloued Isa 5.1 2 3 c. By NEHEMIAH ROGERS Pastor of Messing in Essex Yet I had planted thee a noble vine wholly a right seed How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine vnto me Ier. 2.21 LONDON Printed for Edward Brewster and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Bible at the great North doore of Pauls 1632. TO The Right Honourable and truly Noble Lord ROBERT Earle of Warwick Lord RICH Baron of Leeze c. Encrease of Honour here and euerlasting Glory hereafter Right Honorable Lord MAy it please you to take in good worth this my bold attempt in that vpon so little knowledge and far lesse deserts I haue aduentured so far as to grace these my weake labours with your Noble name Besides some personall and particular respects which I here let passe I haue had some generall inducements hereunto and this aboue the rest Your Honours loue vnto the Truth and great regard of the Ministerie thereof which your more than ordinarie paines taking to heare holy Instructions together with the great respect your Honour giues to such as bring glad tidings of peace whose feet and much more their face Rom. 10.15 are esteemed by you as beautifull are sufficient arguments to euince By which and other fruits of pietie you still merit renowne to your Noble Name and are zealously honoured of al that know you and loue goodnesse into which number I hopefully presuming haue thrust my selfe as being loth to bee hindmost in that acknowledgement which is so nobly deserued and ioyfully rendered of all desiring as far as in me lieth to make knowne vnto the world that grace which lies lodged in your noble brest which being vnited to your greatnesse maketh so happie a composition as that they who had no more than Natures light esteemed it only for true a Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus Iuven. Nobilitie For whereas greatnesse makes some men scornefull and imperious yet what b Nec quicquam in te mutavit fortunae amplitudo nisi ut prodesse tantundem posses velles Plin. epist ad Vespas Plinius reports of Vespasian may be truly said of you It hath changed nothing in you but this that your power to doe good should bee answerable to your will Yea it may be iustly thought that your Honour would teach men to take the measure of your greatnesse by your goodnesse of so euen a length and equall pace are they And indeed so it must be for should Honour out-runne Honestie it would hardly bee ouertaken But I must remember to whom I speake euen to such a one as careth not for long salutations in the Markets I haue done when I haue once againe craued pardon for my boldnesse and humbly requested at your Honours hands whose goodnesse hath not wont to magnifie it selfe more in giuing than in receiuing such like holy presents acceptation and countenance to what is here offered by a thankfull heart As for the Matter herein handled I will not feare to say it deserues it And for the Manner I must say it needs it whatsoeuer it bee bee it not as it should be yet my will wisheth it to be well but as it is I humbly betake it to your Honours fouourable protection And so your Honour to the protection of the Highest Your Honours humbly and officiously deuoted in all dutie NEHEMIAH ROGERS TO The right vertuous and truly zealous Ladie FRANCIS Countesse of Warwicke and wife to the Right Honorable Lord ROBERT Earle of Warwick c. Encrease of Honour here and euerlasting Glory hereafter Right Noble Lady MY attempt may seeme a wonder but where IVDGEMENT searcheth out the cause and Prudence guideth Wisdome to weigh the circumstance the conceit of wondermēt ceaseth What hath induced mee to ioyne you with your Honourable Lord needs no long relation God hath cemented and combined you together with the neerest strongest bands and therefore I in my due honoring of both presume to conioyne you both in this one Dedication What is conceiued and reported of your Honours worth thorow all our Countrey I must passe ouer in silence for well I know your excellent modestie will not suffer such though deserued a relation Your Honour rather affecting to doe things deseruing Fame than Fame it selfe And like the fixed starres the higher God hath set you the lesse you desire to seeme I confesse I am as yet but a Stranger in these parts yet must he be more strange that meeteth not with the report of your Honours vertues whose diligent paines in gaining knowledge of holy things and conscionable practise of what you know whose humble sober wise courteous and modest cariage rare vertues to be found in Ladies of so high a place and ranke are so many tongues and mouthes and pens without mine to publish your due praises And though through the corruption of these times this age is growne so base as that one cannot thinke any to be the better or the worse for the report that flies of them vnlesse they be eye-witnesses either of their good or ill yet where the sound is all so honourable I dare be confident of an holy inclination gratious disposition which hath giuen me such encouragement as that I haue little need to misdoubt either your Honours acceptation of this Treatise or to aduise your vse for I perswade my selfe that you wil not only view the title and Epistle as the fashion of most Patrons is but the whole book also in some of those houres which your Honour redeemes I dare say for soule employments from those idle and excessiue customes wherein too many Ladies please themselues and none else But I know that your Honor will be better pleased if I turne praises into praiers therefore I will endeuour to supply that want this way beseeching the God of Maiestie and mercy to sanctifie your heart yet more and more who with the New-yeere giue you new supplies of the graces of his Spirit and gratiously to encrease in you the ground of all true Honor Goodnesse Let me not offend in offering so meane a worke to so worthy a Personage the weaker it is the more need hath it of a worthy Patron therefore I humbly betake it to your Honours fouourable protection And so your Honour to the protection of the Highest Your Honours humbly and officiously deuoted in all dutie NEHEMIAH ROGERS TO THE READER HE that feasts high Estates must seeke out for forraine Cookeries and fantasticall dishes to please their pallats but hee that in true charitie inuites home his plaine honest neighbours doth well enough if he prouide such homely fare as shall be competent and befitting men of meaner qualitie It is the plaine Country-man I feast commonly called the Good-man And therefore for thee Reader to expect any curious Diuision rare Inuention or Rhetoricall composition in this

mouthes boldly to make knowne the mysterie of the Gospell of Iesus Christ. What is it for vs to come vnto you richly laden and to be as full of good matter as euer Elihu was i Iob 32.18 if God be not with our mouthes as he promised Moses k Exod. 4.12 and teach vs what to say Pray therefore oh pray earnestly to God for vs that he would excite vs stirre vs vp and enable vs to vtter such holy things as we haue studied and thought vpon For l Pro. 16.1 the preparations of the heart are in man but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord and therefore except he doe to vs as he did to Ieremiah m Ier. 1.9 stretch out his hand and touch our mouth and put his words into it there is small hope that our tongues should so set out those wonderfull workes of God and those great things of his Law n Hos 8.12 as that the soules of Gods people may haue any cause to blesse God that euer they did heare vs. Thirdly what cause haue such to blesse God as are Vse 3 vnder such clouds and liue vnder such Ministers whose Doctrine drops as the raine Deut. 32.2 and whose speech distils as the dew as the small raine vpon the tender herbe and as the showres vpon the grasse Oh that men knew but this gift of God and were answerably thankfull for so great a gift Satan grudges yea enuies the Church this gift and sets himselfe by all meanes to withhold these clouds from dropping as knowing full well what a great disaduantage they are vnto his kingdome hence is it that all Ephesus is in an vp-roare vpon Pauls teaching and hence is that out-cry of our people Neuer was merry world since so much Preaching Oh! how cursed a generation are we fallen into who repine at that as if it were some heauie plague for which we are bound to blesse God for as a speciall blessing A day will surely come when such will wish to haue but one drop fall from these clouds to coole the heat and horror of their consciences and to case the agonies they are perplexed withall but shall not obtaine it And lastly this may teach vs who are Ministers of Vse 4 the word to seeke abilitie and libertie from the hands of God that we may be enabled to deliuer vnto our people what we haue thought vpon and meditated on before for if he will giue libertie who can restraine it and if he will silence who can enlarge it Let vs then not be ouer-confident of our owne abilitie but if we be to speake of matters of moment be more carefull to craue Gods aid and direction than trust to our owne readinesse or prepararation And so much for this I hope a word to the wise will be sufficient We haue done with the Parable The Application followes The Vineyard of the Lord of Hoasts Text. is the house of Israel Verse 7 and the men of Iudah his pleasant plant and he looked for iudgement but behold oppression for righteousnesse but behold a cry Diuision Here we haue the Allegory explained and applied by shewing First who this Vinitor is and he is God himselfe who is here described by his Titles and Epithites first Lord secondly Lord of Hoasts Secondly who this Vineyard was and they are first the house of Israel secondly the men of Iudah euen all the whole body of them Thirdly what were the fruits first which he expected and they were iudgement and righteousnesse secondly which they returned and they were Oppression and a crie Expos The Vineyard We haue seene before in the beginning of the Parable the reason why the Church is compared to a Vineyard with the seuerall concurrences wherein he comparison stands which is needlesse here againe to recite therefore thither I referre you Of the Lord God is called a Lord because of his absolute power dominion and authoritie that he hath ouer all creatures for as we know he is properly called the Lord of any thing that hath interest authoritie and gouernment ouer the same Now seeing God hath an absolute free and eternall right to all things both in heauen and in earth this title of Lord is truly and properly giuen to him Of Hoasts He is called not only a Lord but Lord of Hoasts First because his creatures are many and a multitude as an armie consists of many troupes Secondly in regard of their order which is admirable as order makes an armie beautifull Thirdly and especially in regard of their obedience for no souldier is so ready prest at the command of his Captaine as all creatures are ready to fulfill the will of God Is the house of Israel This name Israel God for honours sake gaue to Iacob p Gen. 33.38 vpon a speciall occasion mentioned in his storie and it signifieth a Prince or preuailer with God And he thought it an excellent blessing to haue his children called by his name Israel as we may see in that his praier made for Iosephs two sonnes Ephraim and Manasseh q Gen. 48.16 The Angell which redeemed me from all euill blesse the lads and let my name be named on them c. And this name was giuen to Iacobs seed as a title of honour See Rom. 9.4 So that by the house of Israel is meant the seed and posteritie of Israel they who came of that house and issued from his loines And the men of Iudah Though Israel was a common name to the twelue Tribes while they were but one kingdome which was from the beginning of Sauls reigne to the end of Solomons yet after they were diuided into two kingdomes they were called by these two names Israel and Iudah When and how this rent was made we finde expresly deliuered both in the bookes of the r 1 Kings 12. Kings and Å¿ 2 Chron. 10. Chronicles For the time it was after the death of king Solomon and not before And for the Manner thus Rehoboam king Solomons sonne censured by Iesus the sonne of Sirach t Eccles 47.23 to be euen the foolishnesse of the people and one that had no vnderstanding succeeding in his fathers throne did vpon aduice giuen him by his young councellors threaten sharpe vsage and hard measure vnto his people so that his little finger should be heauier than his fathers loines and whereas his father did burden them with a grieuous yoake he would make it heauier his father did chastize them with rods but he would correct them with scourges Which vnkinde intreating of his people caused a rebellion and reuolt Tenne of the twelue Tribes much discontented breake forth into speeches of impatiencie What portion haue we in Dauid we haue no inheritance in the sonne of Iesse To your tents O Israel Now see to thine owne house Dauid So they forsooke Rehoboam their rightfull Lord and set vp Ieroboam sonne of Nebat to be king ouer them Two Tribes viz.

the Tribes of Iudah and Beniamin only continuing their obedience Thus was Israel diuided from Israel tenne Tribes from the other two which made both the ten and the two miserable The ten reuolted Tribes haue diuers appellations in the sanctified writings of the holy Prophets as u Hos 10.15 Bethel * Hos 10.5 Bethauen x Mich. 1.1 Samaria y Amos 5.6 Ioseph z Hos 2.22 Iesreel a Hos 4.17 Ephraim b Hos 10.11 Iacob but none more vsuall than this of Israel The two other Tribes Iudah and Beniamin called in Scripture but one Tribe because of the mixture of their possessions as 1 Kings 11.13 haue in like sort their diuers appellations as sometimes they are called c Ier. 6.1 Beniamin othertimes d Mich. 1.1 Ierusalem and otherwhiles e Amos 6.1 Sion and sometimes againe we may finde them called f Zach. 12.7 the house of Dauid But most commonly they are knowne by the name of Iuda as here And thus we see the reason of these different names giuen to one and the same people for all came of Iacob and issued out of his loines His pleasant plant That is the plant which he tooke delight in Now this is not spoken as if they of the Tribe of Iudah were more approued of than were the other Israelites but rather to aggrauate their sinne in that God hauing so many waies aduanced that Tribe aboue the rest and according to Iacobs propheticall blessing g Gen. 49.8 9 10 11 12. made it Lord and king ouer the other Tribes so that the right of the kingdome belonged to it and was to continue in Iudahs line vntill Shiloh came yea and out of that Tribe should the Shiloh and Messiah come which was a speciall prerogatiue that that Tribe had aboue the rest yet notwithstanding all this Iudah should deale so vngratefully with God as in stead of sweet grapes to bring forth wilde grapes He looked for iudgement but behold oppression The Prophet here as well as in other places of this his Prophesie sheweth his Rhetorick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vsing a figure wherby he doth excellently adorne his speech for we haue here a meeting together of words which hath a very good grace with it and yet cannot be so well exprest in any other tongue as in the originall in sound the words seeme to be almost the same and yet are of contrary significations and differing much in sense by the changing of a letter the one signifying h Mishpat Iudgement the other i Mispach Oppression the one k Tzedakah Iustice the other a l Tzehhakah Crie These words especially respect Magistrates and their office and may seeme to shew vnto vs the well-spring of all that wickednesse which was amongst them It came from the head and so dispersed it selfe to the members He looked for Iudgement That is this he expected for all his many fauours that Iudgement and Iustice should be administred the cause of the innocent should be heard and pleaded the quarrell of the poore reuenged and the wicked and vngodly sharply censured and seuerely punished But behold Oppression Or as some expound it a Conspiracie the Magistrates themselues conspiring together with the wicked to oppresse the poore according to that in the first Chapter vers 23. m Isay 1.23 Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues c. So here while these Iudges and Magistrates should punish such as did oppresse the poore they themselues did conspire with the wicked while they did accompany them in dealing extremely and cruelly with them For Righteousnesse That is that euery one might haue their due and no man wronged nor iniured And this hath a larger extent than the former comprehending vnder it all the duties of loue and charitie which ought to be shewed vnto our neighbour A crie or clamour to wit of such as were vniustly oppressed by those corrupt Magistrates the cries of the widowes and fatherlesse came into the eares of the most high God And this was wickednesse with an Eccè Behold it yea and againe behold it for it is twice vsed Behold oppression Behold a crie which particle hath a great emphasis with it and being double the greater It is as a watch-word to awake vs to the consideration of what is said we should not lightly passe this ouer that there should be such wickednesse to be beheld amongst them beyond hope or expectation of God or men Thus much for Explication Now come wee to Obseruation And first from the Prophets practise learne we in generall that Doctr. Application is to be made of Doctrine Preachers are to apply their Doctrines in particular to their hearers This course tooke Nathan when hee had to deale with Dauid Hee did not onely in a Parable make him condemne the sinne n 2 Sam. 12.7 He shall dye that hath done this thing but by particular application comes home vnto him Vid. Dr. Hall on Nathan Thou art the man and so makes him condemne himselfe And thus did Saint Peter in that Sermon wherein he conuerted three thousand soules o Acts 2.23 Whom yee haue taken and by wicked hands haue crucified and slaine p Verse 36. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Iesus whom yee haue crucified both Lord and Christ Such was his dealing with Simon Magus q Acts 8.22 Thy money perish with thee repent of this thy malice thou art in the gall of bitternesse It may be thy sinne may be done away The like was our Sauiours practise whose example is without all exception r Luke 13.3.5 I tell you nay but except yee repent you shall all likewise perish ſ Cap. 11.44.46 Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisies hypocrites Woe vnto you also you Lawyers And Iohn to the Iewes thus t Matth. 3.7 O generation of vipers who hath forewarned you to flie from the wrath to come Reason 1 And there is good reason for this course because application is the life of doctrine This leads it to the thoughts and intents of the heart to discerne them if sinfull to captiuate them if right to enflame them This makes the word become ours causeth vs to taste the sweetnesse of it Without this no fruit in the threatnings for our humiliation no fruit in the promises for our restitution No true vnderstanding of either without our owne faith mingling and truly applying both That which is spoken to all is as good as spoken to none at all Secondly Gods Ministers are compared vnto Builders Reason 2 and therefore are not only to lay the foundation but also to erect vp the building Now Doctrine is but the laying of a ground and Application is the rearing vp of the walles and as the building vp of a Christian in grace and goodnesse The Vses concerne first vs Ministers secondly you our Hearers We that are