...religion are considered as the vines, from whom fruitfulness is expected; but it is said, Isa. v. 2. ." And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." Alas! of how many is this descriptive at this day, in this our highly favoured land. As to our religious...

...are the wild grapes to which the prophet compares the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah : " And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes."" They are also the sour grapes to which another inspired prophet alludes, when he predicts the destroying...

...song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : 2 ye hath seen it. 22 Tkis thou hast seen, O Lonn : leep not rilence : O ivith the choisest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein :...

...the following one of Isaiah (v. 1, 2-) : " My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof,...forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." The 7th verse tells us that this vineyard was the house of Israel, which had so ill requited the favour...

...very fruitful hill : M*"^ xn! i33" 2 And he f fenced it, and gathered out the stones there- »1^^of, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a...midst of it, and also | made a winepress therein : and t or,j he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought |™" forth wild grapes. AC758....

...ancient people in the language of parable, — "my well beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine ; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein : and he looked that it should...

...fruits" (Song iv. 12, 13). Again we read, "My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill ; and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine" (Isaiah v. ]). Similar in figure, though slightly altered vine and the branches in John xv. Ah ! who...

...passeth away, and the lust thereof ; but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 1 ISA. v. 2, 4 : And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof,...bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked...

...my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : 2 And be eign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 2 And he did...It Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria 3 And now, 0 inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard....

...in every age. For his universal church, like the Jews of old, is the object of his peculiar care. " He fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine." The goodness of C!od was exerted for the fallen race of mankind, in a way which surpasses all his other...