CAP .Ó, top, The Bate of the Church to the enemies, no Ie[fe then an Army fa trailed withBanners. We may obferve out of rhefe comparifons, how muchmore excellent the condition of this Church (hall be, then ever it was of any other. Great was the dignity of the former, but at the molt declared by fi- militudes taken from the earth; but here, as if, the excellency of earthly things were not fuffictent to let forth fuch glory, he flies upward towards heaven, taking the Morning, the Moan, and Swine for comparifons : Come Lord lefu, let us quickly fee that . pleafant fight, the gathering together of our difperfed brethren, that all flesh may acknowledge thee the only Lord ; that thy unmeafu. table faith and 'mercy which exceedeth all the ftraits ofa created minde, may be celebrated and renouned in the mouches of all men. Vert. io. I Went doWne into the garden of 2Vuts tofee thefruifes of theValdie, and tofee Whether the vineJlourifhcdand the 'Pomcgranater budded. The fecond part of the defcription exprefieth feverally what was fpokeneven now generally. Hereof are twomembers, a prepa- ration in this and thetwo next verfes, and the performance of the worke e#fefted in the chapter following. Of the firít member are threedegrees. A vifitation in this verle, futficient abilitie in thenext, and an cffeduall calling in the 12. ve rte. That which we cranilate to the garden of Nuts,Trezoeliru turneth it to the garder. o` Pruning. How is the word fitted? The fewer a long timehave beene pruned gardens, wherein God hash exercifed molt fevere loppings and prunings, Rom. i r. 2o. Neither doth this interpretation differ from the difpofitionof the levees, whole hearts were brawny with hard. nelle, Rom. i r. 25. whofe fubbornneffe and obilinacie, Efay moil divinely defcribeth, Chap. ¢2. 18, 19, 20. He calleth that people deafe and blinde, hearing and feeing much and obferving nothing, 'neither laid they the moll grievous chaftifements to heart, ver. 25. AltoChap. 65. 2, 3. Rom. io. 21. The fruits of the pally, another notewhereby the Iewesare marked our, that they are as it were lateward trees bearing fruit very [lowly, fuch are they that are plan- ted in wallies, which the hills every way fo hinder, that they cannot be refrefhed with the heat of the Swine : Such then Chall Chrift finde the Lewes when he Chill vifrt them, like Nuts covered with a hard [heil ; neither more excellent, with any branch or bud oftrue converfion towards God, whereby theymay Phew themfelves to be indeed with any vitali ftrength from heaven, then trees planted in the lhadow ofsleep rocks, which (other trees flourishing) remain as
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