...shall come up briers and thorns : I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 it is dedicated. Archdeacon Sharp. 4 c When thou vowest a vow men of Judah fhis pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold f oppression ; for righteousness,...

...but sudden riches come like a land-water, and bring much foulness with them. We are God's vineyard ; The vineyard of the Lord of hosts, is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant**, says the prophet. And God delights to see his plants prosper,...

...be eaten up, he will break the wall, and it shall be trodden down". Surely, says the prophet there, the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: surely we are the church, which God hath hedged in ; but yet if...

...between the " cherubim, and scatter them over the city." Ezek. x. 2. See above C. vii. 5. n. (6) " For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house " of Israel." Is. v. 7. This expression (which occurs in several other parts of scripture), and the subsequent length...

...mourning, and ,, . ,, . . woo, throughout the fiilling walls of that they ram no ram upon jerjsal(,ra; it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Juduh his pleasant plant : and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression ; for righteousness,...

...vineyard, that brought forth wild grapes, was there any difficulty in understanding him when he said, " The vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant?" Look at the parable of the sower. " The seed sown by the way-side,...

...beloved," for which so much \yas done that there was no room for more,% we shall be informed that " the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant." § The same that pours forth that sublime but touching entreaty,...

...Ixxx. 15, David, speaking of the Church, calls it " The vineyard which Thy right hand hath planted." " The vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant." — Isa. v. 7. From whence are the laborers brought to the work ?...

...made a winepress therein." And, afterwards, in explanation of his meaning, the prophet continues : " the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel."* And in the same way as this vineyard once meant the house of Israel, now does it mean the Church of Christ...

...good or for evil, it is most desirable that we should rightly understand our own relations to it. " The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel;" or, in the language of the New Testament, " Christ is the vine, and we are the branches." Men continually...