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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

and setled amongst vs when any calamitie doth befall vs wee straight cry out Bad lucke bad fortune If any losse or crosse betide vs oh say we what lucke and fortune was this In euery misery blinde fortune is complained of And so è contra when any good thing happens Lucke and Fortune must be thanked for it thus walking after the lusts of the Gentiles Te facimus Fortuna Deam coeloque locamus Iuuen Satyr 10. who held Fortune as a Goddesse and assigned her a place in heauen representing her by a woman sitting vpon a ball as if the whole world were at her command hauing with her a rasor as if shee could at her pleasure cut off and end mans happinesse bearing in her right hand the sterne of a ship as if shee could turne about all things at her pleasure and in her left hand the horne of abundance as though all plenty came from her Which palpable Idolatry that was amongst them should be renounced and abhorred by vs Christians Yea so farre should it be had in detestation that the very name of Fortune should not once be named amongst vs and much lesse any thing ascribed to it whereof we see not an apparent cause Vse 2 Secondly seeing afflictions are inflicted by the hand of God this should teach vs patience as it did Dauid when Absolon rose vp against him p Psal 39.10 I was dumbe I opened not my mouth because thou diddest it It must needs be a bold audacious impudencie to murmur in afflictions considering God is the author and inflicter If our inferiour strike vs we reuenge it treble if an equall we requite it if a superiour we haue learned this wisdome not to repine or if we mutter yet not to vtter our discontent Thinke whose hand strikes It is Gods who-euer be the instrument the blow was his whatsoeuer was the weapon It is vsually seene that in corrections comming immediatly from Gods hand we are not ordinarily so impatient as in those which come by meanes of wicked instruments and what is the cause but this we doe not so apparently behold Gods holy hand striking vs in these latter as in the former Did we but seriously consider that it is God that scourgeth vs by them we would be then ashamed of our folly in being angry at the rod without any regard of the smiter in snarling like dogs at the stone neuer considering the flinger Doe we not see how patiently Lords and Nobles condemned to die suffer the stroke of death at the hands of the base hangman shewing therein their subiection and obedience to their Prince Euen so should we quietly and patiently endure all the indignities that are offered vnto vs by wicked worldly men therein giuing testimonie of our obedience to God who vseth them as instruments of his iustice to correct vs. See then that thou dost so neuer seuer the crosse from Gods hand though there be neuer so many instruments but Heare the rod who hath appointed it so shalt thou with patience and meeknesse beare that affliction that is inflicted But if otherwise if when the crosse comes thou art willing to see any thing rather than God running vpon inferiour causes gazing on men or meanes regarding more the staffe wherewith thou art smitten than the hand mouing and ruling it it will then be intolerable and thou must needs breake the bounds of patience But may we not haue an eye vpon second causes Quest Are we vtterly to neglect the instruments of our afflictions In all afflictions Answ we are to consider not only the action and worke as it is simply naturall and the disposition of them to the manifestation of Gods glory and our good in which respect God is the chiefe author of them but also an accidentall confusion and malignitie of the action which is wholly to be ascribed to mans corruption by whom it is performed in regard of which malignitie and sinne we are to haue some respect vnto them that we may hate and flie that euill and iniustice that is in them and vse all good and lawfull meanes whereby we may crosse them in their wicked purposes and free our selues from their iniuries and oppressions hauing herein the word of God for warrant which enioyneth vs to vse all honest courses that spirituall wisdome can suggest vnto vs for our preseruation and safetie Thirdly if God be the author of affliction this may Vse 3 serue for direction vnto vs what course to take in time of danger euen that which is giuen vs by the Prophet Hosea to q Hos 6.1 come and returne vnto the Lord for it is he that spoiles and he must heale it is he that wounds and he must binde vp there is none that can r Iob 10.7 take off Gods hand but himselfe He is a foolish malefactor that seekes to the executioner and not vnto the Iudge yet as foolish are we who in the day of trouble rest vpon vaine helps that cannot profit hoping to haue releefe from some Saint or Angell in heauen or which is worse from Coniurers and Witches here vpon the earth Flectere si nequeo Superos Acheronta mouebo As sometimes the Heathen man said If I cannot intreat the gods I will goe vnto the deuils and as King Ahuziah did who being sicke sent to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron ſ 2 King 1. whether he should recouer of his difease or no. Wofull is that cure which is wrought by such Physitians We haue learned better things The generall rule for all troubles is t Psal 50.15 Call vpon me in the day of trouble and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me u Psal 123.2 As the eyes of seruants therefore looke vnto the hands of their Masters and as the eyes of a maiden vnto the hand of her Mistresse so our eyes shall wait vpon thee our God vntill that thou haue mercy on vs. Vse 4 And lastly seeing God hath a hand in all afflictions that befall this may afford great comfort to the godly in that they are not left into the hands of their cruell and crafty enemies but are in the hands of so gratious and mercifull a God and louing Father through whose sweet hand the sharpest and bitterest afflictions doe passe As for our aduersaries they are but as the rod in the hand of him that smites As therefore the rod can of it selfe doe nothing further than the force of the hand vsing it giues strength vnto it no more can they doe any thing vnto vs further than they haue * Iohn 19. power giuen them from aboue Boisterous Tubeco may haply dismay vs with his thundering speeches but let vs know there is an ouer-ruling hand to moderate and restraine him The swinging rod the childe sees in his fathers hand may somewhat terrifie him yet the childe may certainly perswade himselfe his father will so vse it as it shall doe him no more harme than

ad Dom. 10. Trinit Horses Asses Dogs Cats Rats were good vnto their tastes But this food failing they were driuen to eat courser fare yea those things which vnreasonable creatures would not eat as the leather of their shooes and of their targets of their bridles and of their girdles and the like Oxe dung was a pretious dish vnto them and the shreddings of pot-herbes cast out and trodden vnder foot and withered were taken vp againe for nourishment What miserable meat was this And yet as miserable as it was the childe would snatch it from his parent k Rapiebant parentibus filij parentes filijs de ipsis faucibus cibus proferebatur Egesip de excid Hieros l 5. c. 18. and the parent from his childe euen from out his iawes Yea some to prolong their liues would not sticke to eat vp that that others had vomited and cast vp And yet harken to a far more lamentable accident than all this yet The mother takes her owne childe from her brests a harmelesse suckling filly infant and thus speakes to it l Ioseph de bell Judaico lib. 7. cap. 18. Little infant poore wretch in war in famine in sedition for whom shall I preserue thee for whom shall I saue thee aliue If thou liue thou must be a slaue vnto the Romanes but famine preuents thy seruitude yea and the mutinous Iewes are more cruell than either the Romans or the famine Be thou therefore meat to me a furie to the mutinous and euen a mocke of the life of man And when shee had thus spoken shee kild it and boyled the dead bodie of it and eat the one halfe and reserued the other for another time The mutinous Iewes drawne by the sent and sauour of this meat brake into this womans house and threaten to slay her if shee bring it not forth vnto them Shee tels them shee hath meat indeed but shee had reserued it for her selfe neuerthelesse seeing they did so vrge her shee would bring it to them So shee brings them the reliques of her sonne at which sight they standing amazed and shrinking backe with feare and horrour the mother said thus vnto them This meat you see is indeed part of my owne sonne it was my deed to kill it eat yee of it for I haue eaten Will you be more tender than a woman more pitifull than a mother Eat I say for I haue eaten If you will not eat it shall remaine for me his mother Oh fearefull horrid inhumane act● The famine still continuing they are compelled to begin to issue out of their Citie gates and no sooner were they out bur they were still taken and crucified vpon Crosses and Gibbets set vp before the walls that they who were within might by beholding of this spectacle be moued to giue ouer but yet they continued obstinate and would not Fiue hundred a day were thus hanged vp till there were neither trees to be gotten nor any more space left to set them in and desire being made to know the number of dead carkasses which were carried out of the Citie for want of buriall to bee throwne in ditches as dung vpon the earth they found the number to be numberlesse so that no way could it certainly be knowne but out of one Gate the keeper had noted an hundred and fifty thousand dead bodies to be carried out And thus what with the extremitie of the famine what with the furie of the sword and what with sicknesse during the time of this warre there perished in Ierusalem and the Prouince adioyning as some credible m Euseb in Chro. Orosius lib. 7. Authors affirme about six hundred thousand able men to beare armes or as others hold n Ioseph de bell Iud. lib. 7. cap. 17. who were present at the warre there died eleuen hundred thousand besides others taken captiue to the number of ninety seuen thousand The Iewes thus dead and scattered what became now of their glorious Citie Their holy Temple it was burnt their strong and high walls were throwne downe all the Citie became waste and desolate and so it remaines to this day And thus we see what Moses there threatned is here fulfilled to the vtmost both which proue my doctrine and make it good That albeit warre finde a land like Eden it will leaue it like a Sodome a desolate and forsaken wildernesse If these be not sufficient Lament reade the whole booke of Ieremiahs Lamentations and there we shall finde that the mercies of warre are cruell As also what this our Prophet Isaiah saith in the ninth of this his prophesie where speaking of the troubles that should befall the people for their sinnes saith o Isai 9.19 20. The people shall be as the fuell of the fire no man shall spare his brother And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry and he shal eat on the left hand and not be satisfied they shall eat euery man the flesh of his owne arme Where we see warre is compared to the fire and it feedeth vpon and destroyeth the people as the fire consumeth straw or wood or like as an hungry man who snatcheth at the right hand and at the left and is not satisfied such is the vnsatiable hungrie desire of warre there is no measure nor satictie of bloud Let vs thus apply this point Vse 1 First for Admonition vnto vs all that wee be heartily and vnfainedly thankfull for the long peace and prosperitie that we haue enioyed vnder the conduct of our worthy Deborah our late Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth and still doe enioy vnder the gouernment of our peaceable Solomon and Princely Ecclesiastes who came vnto vs like Noahs Doue p Gen. 8.11 with an Oliue branch of peace and hath shut their on gates of warre and setled peace amongst vs so that we may sit q 2 Sam. 7.1 euery one vnder our owne Vines and Fig-trees and there is none to make vs afraid Which blessing is no common blessing that we of this little Iland at this day doe enioy Our neighbours round about vs are at this day whirled about in tumultuous broiles while our Britaine like the Center standeth still vnmouable in so much that it is hard to say whether other Nations more enuie or admire vs. In peace our Merchants trade abroad and bring home r Psal 104.15 Wines to make glad the heart of man and Oyle to make his face to shine In peace our Magistrates fit at home ſ 2 King 7. and giue iudgement in the gates of Israel for maintaining of peace In peace the Messengers of peace t Isay 52.7 preach vnto vs the sweet tidings of the Gospell In peace our Husbandmen u Iames 5.7 sow their corne in hope and reape with ioy In peace * Psal 144.12 13 14. our sonnes as plants grow vp in their youth and our daughters are as corner stones polished after the similitude of a Palace Our garners are full affording