An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

And then further in the sixth place, A Vine is the most spreading plant that is, that spreads larger than other plants, and fills a great deal of room with the spreading of the branches of it, and so you have the Promise of the Church in Isa. 27. 6. ¹Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

And then further in the sixt place, A Vine is the most spreading plant that is, that spreads larger than other plants, and fills a great deal of room with the spreading of the branches of it, and so you have the Promise of the Church in Isa. 27. 6. ¹Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

1. 1Isa. 27. 6.

And then lastly, The Vine is the most tender, soft plant, and it is the Emblem of peace, the sitting under our Vines, it is to set forth Peace. And so the People of God they should be of tender soft spirits, not like the Bramble, nor the Thorn full of pricks, if we sit under Thorns and Brambles we may be pricked with them; but sitting under the Vine there is nothing but sweetness and delightfulness there: Israel is a Vine; yea but he is an empty Vine. The word in the Original is a Participle, an emptying Vine, and yet the sense will come much to one, an Empty Vine, or an Emptying Vine: ¹that is, Though there be much cost bestowed upon Ephraim, so as he might be fruitful,²