generated , and inftead o f red wine, Exerc. 4 brought forth wilde grapes • when in- flead of keeping i t , the Lord threat* ned to take away the hedge, iand pull down the wall thereof: inftead o f preferring it from hurt, to let it be eaten up , broken down , and laid wafte j inftead o f watering, to com* mand the clouds that they rain not upon it. Who knoweth but the Lord hath laid of us in this Nation, as concerning the old jewif? Church ? Their yine is ofthe vine of$odomeyand of thefields Deut^i, j.2>, of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes o f ihl*' gall, their elufiers are bitter. Their wine is the poyfon of dragons, and the cruel ye- mine ofafps. Sure I am, he hath already begun to cut our Vine till it bleed- and i f repentance ftep not into turn away wrath,may beprovoked to fay o f England as he once did o f Pale/lina. 1 had planted thee a noble vine, holy^aright 1 i - * .. ' ® Terciii feed: How then art thou turned into a degenerate plant of a ftrange yiner unto me i May the fpirit o f Reformation pafs* through AChain o f Principles. 477
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