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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

be betwixt their enemies and them As if God should say before they touch thee they shall ouercome mee ô Israel Let vs then goe on as God commanded them and keepe our selues in our waies and then feare nothing Vers 14. for God will fight for vs let vs hold our peace The third particular here mentioned is its Elapidation or cleansing He gathered out the stones thereof whereby is meant as before was shewed the Idolatrous heathen whom God t Psal 44.2 droue out before his Israel that they might not hinder this his Vineyards growth Hence we inferre It is not safe nor profitable for the Church to suffer wicked Idolaters Doct. Toleration of Idolatry is not for the Churches safety or other obstinate sinners to remaine within the Church Of such Gods Vineyard must be rid and his Church purged Will you heare in a few words what the Scriptures say for confirmation hereof It is commanded in the law u Deut. 13.1 seq that the false Prophet and seducing Idolater whether he be brother or sonne or daughter or wife or friend should bee taken away and slaine without mercie or pitie that all Israel may heare and see and feare and not dare to commit the like And againe * Deut. 29.18 There shall not bee amongst you man nor woman nor family nor tribe which shall turne away his heart from the Lord our God to goe and serue the gods of these Nations Besides it forbad x Leuit. 19.19 sowing of the field with mingled seed y Deut. 22.10 plowing with an Oxe and an Asse together the wearing of a garment of diuers things as linnen and woollen mixt together Now these lawes according to the letter seeme ridiculous Haec ad literam videntur esse ridicula Ordin gloss in Leuit. saith the glosse but the thing that God intends hereby to shew is that he cannot away with a mixt Religion The Church of Ephesus z Reuel 2.6 was commended for hating the workes of the Nicolaitans but Pergamus a Reuel 2.14 was reproued for suffering them that maintained the Doctrine of Balaam and Thyatira b Reuel 2.20 blamed for suffering Iesabel to teach and deceiue Gods seruants And why in Scripture are Idolaters called c Ios 23.13 Iudg. 2.1 stumbling-blocks snares thornes traps whips and destruction but because they proue so to the people amongst whom they liue Israel found them so and England did no lesse in Queene Maries daies and France doth so For from whence spring these commotions tumults horrible massacres and bloudy tragedies but from the diuersity of Religion amongst them Reason 1 And indeed what agreement hath light with darknesse or God with Belial The Lord can neuer digest two contraries though neuer so well mixed or wisely tempered in matters of religion as the Church of Laodicea d Reuel 3.16 sheweth Hereupon zealous Elijah exhorteth the people after this manner e 1 King 18.21 If the Lord be God follow him and if Baal be God goe after him Reason 2 Besides f 1 Cor. 5.6 Doe yee not know that a little leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe Sinne therefore being infectious the sinner is not to bee tolerated in the assembly of the righteous Take wee occasion hence to magnifie Gods name Vse 1 who hath beene so gracious to this his Vineyard which his owne right hand hath planted in this Land as to cleanse it of all such stones as might any way hinder the prosperity or flourishing estate of it Our streets are well swept and rid of that Popish rubbish wherewith formerly they haue beene much annoied Those dens of theeues are dispersed those buyers and sellers of Popish trash Monks Friers Massemongers and Iesuits are whipt out of the Temple and driuen from amongst vs He hath pulled downe that great Idoll of the Masse with other Idols that were set vp to bee adored and hath abolished the manifold heresies and corruptions of false doctrine And withall hath blessed vs with so religious and prudent a King as is a constant Defender of the Faith and an open aduersary to superstition and Idolatry What shall we now render to the Lord for all these testimonies and tokens of his loue towards vs but take the cup of Saluation and praise with tongue and heart the name of God acknowledging his goodnesse in deliuering vs from the Romish bondage labouring to bring forth the fruits of the Gospell to the glorie of his name and our owne endlesse saluation This likewise serueth for the Admonition 1. Of Vse 2 Ministers whom God hath reposed such great trust and confidence in as to be the dressers and keepers of his Vineyard that wee be found faithfull and what lies in vs remoue whatsoeuer may any way annoy it For which end Christ hath not only committed vnto vs g Ephes 6. the sword of the spirit which is the word of God wherewith we may h Tit. 1. conuince gainsayers but also i Matth. 16.19 the keies of the kingdome that men being conuicted and not conuerted nor reclaimed they may be cast out and expelled either for a time as the incestuous k 1 Cor. 5.5 Corinthian was or for euer euen vnto the comming of the Lord Which kinde of excommunication the Apostle cals l 1 Cor. 16.22 Maran-atha of Mara the Lord and Atha he commeth being interposed for sound sake Which censure being so grieuous as it is for it is a deliuering m 1 Cor. 5.5 vp to Satan ought not be inflicted rashly for euery trifle but deliberatly in matters of weight and moment and in such cases as expresly shut out of the kingdome of heauen such as those the Apostle mentioneth 1 Corinth 6. because it is a declaration of that which is by God done in heauen In the execution whereof let all such as it doth concerne beware of filthy lucre and faithfully discharge what is committed to them not suffering the notoriously prophane to remaine within the Church lest others bee endangered and infected by their society for n 2 Tim. 2.17 their very words and much more their conuersation creepeth and corrupteth as a gangreene Verbum informans virga reformans 2. Magistrates who must second the word of information with the rod of reformation and backe the Ministers of the Word by the vse of the temporall sword which they must not o Rom. 13.4 beare for nought but as the Ministers of God take vengeance on them that doe euill These are Gods Surrogates and the Preachers hopes Our words are thought aire where their hands doe not compell Good lawes are made against the wicked and prophane but what are wee the better for Gods owne lawes without execution If those who haue the charge imposed and the sword put in their hands stand like the picture of S. George with his hand vp yet neuer strike it will fare full ill with the Vineyard of the Lord. Let it bee their care

Rom. 4. as Abraham the Father of the faithfull Psal 90. title 2 Sam. 23.1 Moses the seruant of God Dauid the sweet singer of Israel And S. Peter S. Paul S. Iohn and so the rest Thus the wicked leaue a filthy sauour behinde them as a greasie snuffe when it goeth out which euery one that passeth by stops his nose at but the godly leaue their names behinde them for a blessing the very remembrance of them is sweet and like the end of some sweet wax candle which euery one loues to haue the sent of euen after it hath left burning Wouldst thou then bee counted excellent See that thou doe a Ruth 4.11 worthily in Ephratha and so be famous in Bethlehem It is vertue onely that can emblazon thy name and that will doe it A field of sinceritie charged with deeds of pietie cannot but be accomplisht with a crest of glorie But if thou liuest licentiously and prophanely so loathsome will thy abominable life make thee as that thou shalt scarce euer come into mention of Gods people but with a stile like that of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat b 2 King 10.29 that made Israel to sinne Vse 4 And lastly for Cons●lation let this serue to the godly poore despised by the rich and worldly wise Know thou for thy comfort thou art a choise plant in Gods account and hee that knowes the true worth of things esteemes thee precious and holds thee for one of his iewels of great price whateuer men doe deeme Malach. 3.17 And when that day of separation shall come hee will then make it known to all the world First by his setting thee on his right hand as one of his darlings Matth. 25. whom he purposeth to aduance and honour when all other shall be turned to the left hand as base and contemptible Secondly by that his gracious call and sweet sentence Come thou blessed c. The prosecuting of this point would bee very comfortable but I hasten and now come to the fift Particular heere mentioned whereby Gods loue to this his Vineyard was manifested in these words He built a Tower in the midst of it which was as well for the beautifying and adorning it Text. as for the further strengthning of it By which Tower whether wee vnderstand the glorious Temple in Ierusalem that stately edifice and building or Ierusalem it selfe whereunto all the Tribes resorted Psal 122.4 and the nations came to worship it will leade vs to this Obseruation that The Beautie and Bulwarke of a place is Gods seruice and worship erected and set vp in that place Doctr. Gods worship beautifies and strengthens that place where it is set vp For neither is Ierusalem nor Zion here compared to a Tower especially in regard of the stately buildings multiplicity of Turrets aspiring Towers or the like but in regard of Religion that was found in it In Ierusalem was the continuall worship of God In the Temple the continued seruice of God and this was it which gaue the grace and countenance this made it the golden head of the picture Ladie of the world seat of the Monarchie and as Micah agreeing with this of our Prophet cals it the c Mich. 4.8 Tower of the flocke and the strong hold of the daughter of Gods people We reade d 1 Sam. 4.20 21 how that good woman the wife of Phinehas vpon hearing tidings of taking of the Arke with very griefe fell in trauell and gaue vp the ghost before whose death neither could the birth of a manchild nor the kinde and comfortable speeches of those women then present with her any whit comfort or content her but she cries out The glory is departed from Israel because the Arke of God was taken yea shee doubles her passionate complaint and againe with her last breath saies The glory is departed from Israel for the Arke of God is taken And thereupon shee giues her sonne a name and calls him Ichabod as much as to say where is the glory or rather No glory and all because the Arke of God was taken And thus not State not wealth not outward magnificence but the presence of God in his Ordinances was euer accounted to be the glory of that people And so the Apostle in reckoning vp the priuiledges and prerogatiues of the Iewes telleth vs e Rom. 9.4 5. That to them belonged the Adoption and the Glory meaning thereby the Arke which was a token of Gods presence whence God also heard the praiers and praises of his people and gaue forth Oracles vnto such as sought him As it was their glorie so it was their Strength By it great things had beene for them wrought Before it the waters of Iordan were diuided Ios 3.14 The Idoll Dagon was laid flat vpon the floore Ios 6.11 The strong wals of Iericho were demolished by the presence of it before it their enemies cannot stand And this caused Israel too superstitiously to trust in the Arke of wood when they had God their enemie for when they fell before their enemies they thus aduise f 1 Sam. 4.3 Let vs fetch the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord out of Shiloh vnto vs that when it commeth amongst vs it may saue vs out of the hands of our enemies Besides this that hath beene said and shewed of the Arke for making good this point that of the Prophet Isaiah might be brought g Jsaiah 26.1 In that day shall this Song be sung in the land of Iudah We haue a strong citie saluation will God appoint for wals and bulwarkes c. But I hasten to the vs● Vse 1 See here what enemies all irreligious persons are to this State and Kingdome As likewise such as seeke to suppresse and ouerthrow Gods worship and true Religion These are the capitall enemies of our nation in as much as they labour to the vtmost to pull away that which is the Stay and Pillar of our Land Satan and his instruments haue euer charged true Religion and the professors of it to be the authors of all contentions tumults and insurrections and the greatest enemies of States and Kingdomes which imputation the father of lies hath laid before the eies of great ones to alienate the mindes of Princes both from it and them Thus was h Hest 3.8 Dan. 3.12 Acts 17.18.19.26.24.5 Ahashuerosh incensed against the Iewes and Nebuchadnezar against the three companions of Daniel as if they had beene disobeyers of the kings lawes and contemners of his edicts So S. Paul was often accused by the Stoicks in Athens by Demetrius by Tertullus that he was a pestilent fellow a mouer of sedition amongst the Iewes thorow the world and a sect-master And in the time of the tenne first persecutions if there were any publike plague or calamitie fallen on citie or countrie the heathen would straight cry out vpon the Christians accusing them to be the authors and causers of it If Nilus