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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

vsed by f Acts 16.25 Paul and Silas who at midnight prayed and sang praises to the Lord and by g Mat. 26.30 Christ and his Apostles whose example is without exception who sang a Psalme together as at other times so that night in which our Sauiour was betrayed Thus out of holy writ we haue proued the point Vide Eccles hist Theod. lib. 2. cap. 24. Clem. Alex. lib. 2. Paedagog cap. 4. Euseb Eccles hist lib. 2. cap. 17. Much might be brought likewise for the further confirming of it out of Ecclesiasticall Historie if it were as needfull as easie so to doe of the practise of Christians since Christs time but of that much I will alledge only at this time that testimonie which h Lib. 3. cap. 33. lib. 8. cap. 9. lib. 10. cap. 4. Plinius secundus a Heathen who liued about 200 yeares after Christ gaue vnto the Emperour Traian in the behalfe of Christians They vse saith he to rise before day to celebrate Christ in Psalmes as God And as Socrates reports neither Constantine nor Theodosius euer began a battell i Socrat. Schol. Eccles hist lib. 7. cap. 22. but first they and their souldiers sung Psalmes and made supplications to the Lord. Let vs now come to some profitable vse And first it serueth soundly to lesson such as condemne Vse 1 this exercise or deride such as vse it either in publike or in priuate Such mockers are euery where to be found who as they deride all other parts of Gods seruice so amongst the rest this But if it be a worke of Gods spirit to sing and if Gods children k 1 Cor. 14.15 sing with the spirit as S. Paul auoucheth then against whom doe these open their mouthes whom doe they blaspheme A lamentable thing it is that in a Land professing the Gospell and after the continuance of the publike preaching thereof so many yeares such an ancient laudable and holy exercise should be made a matter of scorne in the seeming of any The Lord lay not this sinne vnto our charge Vse 2 Secondly let vs be stirred vp on all sides to a conscionable performance of this Christian dutie We haue seene it commended to vs by the practise of Gods Saints and by Christ himselfe And not only so but commanded likewise in expresse termes so that wee may not thinke it as a thing indifferent whether we sing or no but euery man to whom God hath giuen the facultie of singing ought as well this way as any other to set forth his Makers praise Motiues to singing Now the better to stirre vs vp to the performance hereof for we shall finde our flesh backward enough as well in this as in any other good exercise I might vse many motiues One taken from the admirable effects and vertues of the Psalmes there being in them a pretious balme for euery present sore so as that there is no temptation nor affliction which can befall a Christian but in the Psalmes he may finde both the formes of expressing them and their meanes of remedie Another might be drawne from the practise of the dumbe creatures As the Larke and other birds which shut vp the light with a sweet dittie and againe saluteth the Sunne when it begins to peepe the next morning with such sweet straines as God hath naturally giuen to it This l Ambros Hexā lib. 5. cap. 12. one of the Ancients vseth as a motiue to draw vs to the exercise of singing For how can men but blush saith he to remember that they haue begun or ended a day without a Psalme when they see the birds those wilde quiristers of the wood constant in their deuotions beginning and ending the day with variety of song But I loue not to be tedious Remember only what Dauid saith m Psal 147.1 It is a good thing to sing praises to our God It is pleasant and praise is comely There are some things good but not pleasant as afflictions Some things are pleasant but not good as sinne And some things may be both good and pleasant yet not comely But this is all It is good because commanded of God and agreeable to his will as before hath beene proued It is pleasant as the children of God experimentally haue witnessed who in time of tribulation haue vsed them as a great meanes of consolation and as a sweetning to their tortures So did Theodorus a man young in yeares though not in grace of whō we reade n August de Ciu. Dei lib. 18. cap. 52. Ruffin lib. 1. cap. 35. that being cruelly tortured with vnheard of torments from the breake of the day vntill the tenth houre without intermission and then set on horsebacke on both sides tortured by the executioners sang with a cheerefull countenance the 96 Psalme Which vndaunted constancie the Officer perceiuing sent him backe againe to prison reporting to the Emperor what was done and with all told him that vnlesse he forbare to exercise such cruelty it would redound to their glory and his shame It is comely for it is the exercise of the Angels in heauen to sing praises and Halleluiahs to the Lord. Wouldst thou then exercise thy selfe in that which is both good pleasant and comely then sing Psalmes for all these are met in that one dutie Now for as much as many a good duty is mard in Vse 3 the making and spoyld in the performance let me adde a third vse for our direction and therein shew what is required of vs in our singing that God may haue the glory The rules that concerne this exercise are summarily comprehended in these words of the Apostle to the Colossians Coloss 3.16 Teaching and admonishing your selues in Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall songs singing with grace in your hearts vnto the Lord. Here we haue directions both for Matter Manner and End Concerning the matter of our songs It must be first good and wholsome spirituall and heauenly Such songs we must sing as are either already in the word or else composed according to the word 2. It must be fitting that it may edifie It must teach and admonish and therefore wisdome is required euen in chusing of a Psalme that it may be fitting the occasion Concerning the manner of our singing these are the things required First it must be with the heart Now to sing with the heart is to sing with vnderstanding and with feeling For he that singeth and vnderstandeth not what he singeth what is he better than a sounding brasse or a tinckling cymball And therefore saith the Apostle p 1 Cor. 14.15 I will sing but I will sing with the vnderstanding Our hearts must goe with our voyces the one must be lift vp as well as the other For God is a spirit and will be worshipped with the spirit Looke then to prepare thy heart before thou singest and awake thy tongue with q Psal 57.7 8. Plus valet

loued to say with shame y Hos 4.18 Giue yee Now I pray you what difference is there betweene Giue yee and Deliuer yee except it be this Giue yee goeth often in chaines of gold whilst Deliuer ye lieth in fetters of iron before God there is no difference betweene theeuery and briberie I doubt not but this kingdome will afford as worthie Iudges and Magistrates as any Land or people in the world And as Iustinian said so with a safe conscience many of our Rulers may They can lift vp their hands cleane to God to the King and to the Law and make protestation with iust and vncorrupt Samuel z 1 Sam. 12.3 They haue defrauded none they haue oppressed none Yet I wish and therein I hope doe no man harme that all could say so Then would not Iustice be made a hackney to be backed for money neither could a golden spurre doe any thing to bring her to the desired iournies end of iniury and wrong But oh the wickednesse of these times wherein with Solomon we may obserue a Eccles 7.15 many a iust man to perish in his righteousnesse and the wicked to prosper in their wickednesse Is a man well monied then saith the Prouerbe he is too heauie to be cast Pecuniosus damnari non potest Cui vis est ius non metuit ius obruitur vi for what is wanting in the goodnesse of his cause the greatnesse of the Fees will make vp So that the rich may say vnto the poore as Aesops Wolfe vnto the Sheepe when they were in contention together Thou hast a better cause than I but I haue stronger teeth than thou Gaine and rewards be the Remora to the ship of Iustice Shee cannot now be called the Speed but the Delay A Motion this Terme an Order next and instantly all is crossed A writ of Error puts all out of course Iethro was not pleased as it seemes to see causes hang from b Exod. 18.14 morning to euening had he liued in these daies how would it haue grudged him to see them hang from Terme to Terme from yeare to yeare And the best causes to be vsed as sore legges are by vnconscionable Chirurgions held long in hand not for the difficultie of the cure but for the gaine thereof The poore Client is faine to trudge vp this Terme and next emptying his purse with paying Fees to one and to another and still the web of his suit is drawne out of a greater length till he want weft to prosecute it and so after all his paines and cost is in the end enforced to let it fall Or say he haue the day Maior est expensarum sumptus quàm sententiae fructus Aelian lib. 9. cap. 18. yet he makes no sauing match by reason the charges of his suit are greater than the costs that shall be awarded Oh the vncertaine euents of suits besides the trouble I hope to see an end this Terme of my suit saith the poore bloud-drawne wretch when alas he sees no end the next Terme nor next after that yea oftentimes the next and next yeare is past first His suit is a suit of Durance almost an euerlasting suit And thus while the poore oppressed runnes to them who should be as a c Isay 32.2 shelter from the winde and a couert from the tempest it oftentimes fals out that with the silly sheepe running in a storme to the hedge or thicket they are so ensnared amongst the thornes and briers as that they can hardly winde and wrest themselues out without losse of wooll and coat what with delaies demurres and a thousand trickes which money will finde out they lose their fleece and carry away their flesh whole vpon their backes with much adoe If this weather hold many men will goe nigh to be of the minde that Themistocles was sometimes of who professed that if two waies were shewed him one to hell and the other to the Bar he would choose that which went to hell and forsake the other See then all you that are in place of Iustice that you keepe your selues vntainted of this sin d Isay 33.15 Walke righteously speake vprightly despise the gaine of oppression shake your hands from holding of bribes stop your eares from hearing of bloud and shut your eies from seeing euill 2. Mercilesse and cruell Landlords who partly by racking and improuing of old rents and that without the old minds of our forefathers I meane their charitie for so it is lawfull to improue them partly by enclosing of Greenes Commons Woods or other of the like which appertaine of right vnto their tenants partly by burdening them with cariages and such like seruices more than was couenanted or agreed vpon and partly by making their leases void when it pleaseth them Pactū non pactū est non pactum pactum est quod illis lubet Plaut so that a Couenant to day shall be none to morrow and that which is none now shall be one anon they oppresse their tenants grinde their faces and sucke their blouds The poore Farmer he is faine to endure the heat and burden of the day he riseth early goeth late to bed eateth the bread of carefulnesse and sitteth with many a hungrie meale not being able to spare a morsell of bread to others nay hardly able to giue food vnto his family and all that he does or can doe is but as a prey to his greedie Landlord Good words it may be praiers they shall sometimes haue returned as God helpe you blesse you and giue you good of it c. but if their praiers were worth a penny they would keepe them to themselues their tenants should not be troubled with them And herein they are like Darius who praied for Daniel e Dan. 6.16 that God would deliuer him when he himselfe sends him to the Lions denne These are Oppressors and such ones as God hath sworne f Amos 4.2 to take away with hookes and their posteritie with fish-hookes 3. Ingrossers whose practise is to compasse sea and land to get a commoditie into their hands which hauing once obtained they set a price vpon it as large as their owne consciences Or else hoard it vp only to make a dearth without a scarcitie I deny not but it is lawfull to buy the ouerplus of any commoditie and when mens turnes are serued in times of plentie to take the residue as Ioseph did that in time of dearth he may haue to helpe the Common-wealth with some good and moderate gaine to himselfe also But these in stead of laying vp to preuent a dearth doe hoard vp to procure one which time is the Ingrossers day wherein he doth enrich himselfe with the spoile of the poore Against these very persons Amos thus prophesieth g Amos 8.4 5 6. Heare this oh you that swallow vp the poore that you may make the needie of the land to faile saying when will the new moone be gone