...expectation of better; and if this expectation had not been crossed with disappointment : Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? Had only maples, or thorns, or willows grown there, God would not have looked for grapes; had only...

...ineffectual. " What could I have done more " to my vineyard that I have. not done in it ? " wherefore, when I looked that it should bring " forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes." Even the work of the Holy Spirit, in regenerating, illuminating, convincing, and comforting the soul,...

...expectation of better; and if this expectation had not been crossed with disappointment : Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes f Had only maples, or thorns, or willows grown there, God would not have lookea for grapes ; had only...

...unequal ? What could " have been done more to my vineyard, " that I have not done in it? Wherefore, " when I looked that it should bring forth " grapes, brought it forth wild grapes ?" I have given you reason and conscience to distinguish between good and evil, and to supply every...

...vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, ? 5 And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof,...

...answers this question; the LOR D himself declares what he will do to his vineyard. " I will," says he, " take away the hedge thereof, and " it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall there" of, and it shall be trodden down; and I will lay it " waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged;...

...p Isa. v. 4. What could hare befi done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes ? 2 Pet. i. 8. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren...

...latter end !. What could I have done more for my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? "Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes ?i Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem ! wilt thou not be made clean ? when shall it once be ? O Jerusalem,...

...the Prophet, " What could have been done more to my vineyard than I have not done in it? Wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes !" What could God have done more in this his vineyard, (suppose he had designed it should put forth...

...entirely laid on themselves, and their conduct is considered as being inexcusably, yea, unaccountably bad. And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to m./ vineyard. J will take away the hedge thereof, &c. Where nothing can. be plainer than that the children...