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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02565	One of the sermons preacht at Westminster, on the day of the publike fast (April 5. 1628) to the Lords of the High Court of Parliament and by their appointment published. By the B. of Exceter.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1628 (1628)	STC 12692; ESTC S103757	26,047	120

wofull issue of such blessings wild grapes and that with the disappointment of Gods expectation Two vsual faults doth God find with any vicious Tree No fruit Ill fruit The one in omission of good the other in commission of sinne The fig-tree in the way is cursed for the one Israel here taxed for the other What then are these wilde or as Pagnine renders it vuae putidae rotten Grapes God hath not left it to our ghesse but hath plainly told vs v. 7. in an elegant parenomasie I looked for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iudgement and behold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a wound or scab that is oppression I lookt for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iustice and behold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 clamour Generally what euer disposition or act vncultured nature doth or would produce of it selfe that is a wild grape Particularly the Holy Ghost hath here instanced in seuerall sinnes so stiled A self-greatning oppression vers 8. A setled drunkennesse and wilfull debauchednesse vers 11. A determined resolution of wicked courses verse 18. A nicknaming of good and euill verse 20. A selfe conceitednesse in their owne wayes verse 21. Briberie in their Iudges 1. 23. Pride in their women 3. 16. obdured infidelitie in all 6. 10. Wilde grapes indeed such as corrupted nature yeelds without a correction without an alteration shee her selfe is wilde shee can yeeld but what shee hath what she is Please your selues who list in the opinion of your faire and sweet and plausible disposition yee shall find nature at her best but a wild Vine In me that is in my flesh there dwelleth no good saith the chosen Vessell Wild grapes for the harshnesse and fowrenesse of the taste for the odiousnesse of their Verdure to the palate of the Almightie the best fruits of nature are but glorious sinnes the worst are horrible abhominations Such are the wild grapes of Israel which yet could not haue beene so ill if God had not beene put into an expectation of better and if this expectation had not bin crossed with disappointment Wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth Grapes brought it forth wilde Grapes Had only Maples or Thornes or Willowes growne there God would not haue lookt for Grapes had only wilde Vines growne there GOD would not haue lookt for pleasing clusters but now that God furnished the Soyle with Noble and Generous Plants with what scorne and indignation doth hee looke vpon wilde Grapes Fauours bestowed raise expectation and expectation frustated doubles the iudgement The very leaues and the high way drew a curse vpon the Fig-tree Woe be to thee Chorazin Woe be to thee Bethsaida Sonne of man what shall be done to the Vine of all trees Woe bee to thee O Vineyard of Israel I will take away the hedge thereof and it shall bee eaten vp I will breake downe the wall and it shall bee trodden downe My speech should now descend to the wofull vengeance that God threats to and inflicts vpon his Israel A fit Theame for so heauie a day the Hedge of good gouernment and wholsome Lawes shall bee trodden downe the wall of Diuine Protection shall be broken the beasts of the Field and Forrest shall be let in the Grapes deuoured the Trees brouzed and trampled vpon the roots extirpate to the full and finall vastation of Israel to the scorne and hissing of all Nations to the iust terror of all the World whiles that dearling people which was once the example of Gods mercy is now becomne the fearefull spectacle of his furie and reuenge suruiuing only in some few abhorred and despised Vagabonds to shew that there was once such a Nation But the time and occasion call my thoughts homeward and inuite me rather to spend the rest of my houre in paralleling Israels blessings sinnes threats of iudgement with our owne Wherein our interest shall bee a sufficient motiue of our attention Gather you together therefore gather you O Nation not worthy to be loued and cast backe your eyes vpon those incomparable fauours wherewith God hath prouoked and indeared this Iland in which I dare boldly say we are at the least his second Israel How hath hee chosen vs out of all the Earth and diuided vs from the rest of the World that wee might bee a singular patterne and strange wonder of his bountie what should I speake of the wholesome temper of our Clime the rich prouision of all vsefull Commodities so as wee cannot say only as Sanchez did I haue moysture enough within my owne shell but as Dauid did Poculum exuberans My cup runnes ouer to the supply of our Neighbour Nations what speake I of the populousnesse of our Cities the defencednesse of our shoares these are nothing to that heauenly treasure of the Gospel which makes vs the Vineyard of God and that sweet peace which giues vs the happie fruition of that sauing Gospel Albion doe we call it nay as he rightly Polyolbion richly blessed O God what where is the Nation that can emulate vs in these fauours How hath hee fenced vs about with the hedge of good Discipline of wholesome Lawes of gracious Gouernment with the brazen wall of his Almightie and miraculous protection Neuer Land had more exquisite Rules of Iustice whether mute or speaking Hee hath not left vs to the mercie of a rude Anarchie or a tyrannicall violence but hath regulated vs by Lawes of our owne asking and swayd vs by the iust Scepters of moderate Princes Neuer Land had more conuincing proofes of an Omnipotent Tuition whether against forraine Powers or secret Conspiracies Forget if yee can the yeare of our Inuasion the Day of our Purim Besides the many particularities of our deliuerances filed vp by the pen of one of our worthy Prelates How hath hee giuen vs meanes to remoue the rubs of our growth and to gather away the stones of false doctrine of hereticall prauitie of mischieuous machinations that might hold downe his truth And which is the head of all How hath he brought our Vine out of the Egypt of Popish Superstition and planted it In plaine termes how hath hee made vs a truly-orthodoxe Church eminent for puritie of doctrine for the graue and reuerend solemnitie of true Sacraments for the due forme of gouernment for the pious and Religious forme of our publike Lyturgie with what plentie hath hee showred vpon vs the first and latter raine of his heauenly Gospel With what rare gifts hath hee graced our Teachers With what pregnant spirits hath hee furnisht our Academies With what competencie of maintenance hath he heartned all learned Professions So as in these regards we may say of the Church of England Many Daughters haue done vertuously but thou excellest them all How hath the vigilant eye of his prouidence out of his doore of Heauen watcht ouer this Iland for good not an hellish Pioner could mine vnder ground but hee espied him not a darke Lanterne could offer to deceiue midnight but he descryes