...Scripture, the Lord, hy the mouth of his prophet, sets forth Christ's love for his church. " My heloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill, and he fenced...thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine." And that every thing might he in perfect order and readiness for the due culture of this vineyard, " he...

...vineyard ! My friend had a vineyard On a very fruitful hill. 2 He digged it, and cleared it of stones, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And hewed out a wine-press therein ; Then he looked that it should bring forth its grapes, But it brought...

...increased in size, and is laden with productions before unknown to the soil : because the proprietor " fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine." Such is the human mind : such are talents cultivated or neglected : such is man going on from strength...

...for fruits if he has not himself tended the vineyard, fenced it, and placed it on a fruitful hill, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine. How tenderly, how infinitely above our thoughts of him does he deal with his creatures. The Lord raiseth...

...— Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-heloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced...built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes....

...of my beloved, " touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard on " a very fruitful hill. 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out " the stones thereof,...built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press " therein :" &c. The words fenced it, in this description, are rendered in the margin more...

...degree, apply to our islands, what God, by his prophet, applies to the hill of Sion : • My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill ; and he fenced...stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine.' Yes, God hath, as it were, taken much pains with our empire ; and, by many a complicated plan of providence,...

...interpretation of our Lord's conduct, by a passage nearly parallel in the Prophet Isaiah. — "My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced...the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vines, and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. What could...

...degree, apply to our islands, what God, by his prophet, applies to the hill of Sion : ' My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill ; and he fenced it, and gathered out the stonea thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine.' Yes, God hath, as it were, taken much pains...

...prophet, applies to the hill of Sion : ' My well-beloved hath a vineyard in n very fruitful hill ; arid he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine.' Yes, God hath, as it were, taken much pains with our empire ; and, by many a complicated plan of providence,...