Chap. 24. ./In Expofticn opt; roe Re, of j. O B. Veri. 6. It is the mifery of lonie, that what they have Town is reaça by o- thers, and 'cis a wickednefs to reap where we have not Towne, e4nd theygather the vintage ofthe tricked. 523 That is, thegrapes that grow in their vineyards. Mr Erarl broil renders, Thewicked fnap fff the vineyard grapes; they were in the Corne fields before, now they are got into the vineyards. But how is it faid,Tbey gather the vintage of thewicked: it feems orange that they being wicked fhouldgather the vintage of the wicked ? Some take it plainly thus ; they oppreffe thole that are as bad as themfelves. And fo we may take this note from it. One wicked man will oppreffe another. Wicked men fpareneither good nor bad, neither friend nor foe ; They fpoyle thole that are al; bad as themfelves ; we fay a L,,pyg tcptun Wolfe dochnot prey upona Wolfe,nor aLyon upon a Lyon,but nonce-lit. it is otherwife withbrutifh men, they prey upon and devour one another. Secondly, They gather the vintage oftb,e wicked ; that is, of thole whom they Count to be wicked, and fo fir to have their goods taken from them ; they accue them of wickednefs,and put their names in their blackbooke, as ifthey were difhonefk; that's a truth alto, wickedmen often oppreffe the Innocent, tinder apretence that they are wicked. We have a great Inflance ofthisabout the takingof a vine. Ir,+er amnia Il- yard (t Kings 21. 13, r 5 ) 21Zaboth was Innocent and ftoneft ; m, iáe but fezabel hired two then, to make Oath that he had bla/pbe- xa` ,Sej g e, iii et wedGod and the King, and he was preently raft out and ftoned: ç;; er, itti hüFent his was the vineyardof the wicked,becaul the wicked had r+ mind /e° á,np o, to it.Thus,under a pretenceof fome evil done,they really do evils dertcrtvrr r u- And having hiought a fall accufation againft a man,they proct ed <<: 05 J to condemn his perfon and confifcatehis eftare,asifall were true, yi,reom e;reß There is yet anotherreading, (which we put in the marginofpeel oypre c- our Bibles) fo plain in the letter, that it needs none of thetc In Twit. Vni ; terprecaiions to make it out ; The wickedgather thevintage; As they tooka way the Corne, fo the winedro. We reed r.ot w. 6n- X x x r der,
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