2. There is a deal to be done to and for the Vineyard, and the several plants that are in it. He that hath a Vineyard to look after, shall never want work: there ⟨p. 97⟩are so many things that belong to the dressing & tending of it; there is digging, & dunging, and weeding, and transplanting, & pruning, and under-setting, and keeping up the hedge, and watching against wild beasts and robbers: and all this is a constant work; if it be once done. It will be to do again and again. There is no less lying on the Ministers of Christ, if they will prove themselves faithful: there are Children, tender plants in the nursery, to be looked after, and to be removed from those beds into the rows, when they are fitted for it: there are grown persons, who should be laboured with that they may be prepared for full communion: and there are those that have attained to it: each of these have their portion to be allotted to them. There are the unbelieving, who are to be called upon and not let alone; the Obstinate, who are to be solemnly warned; the Scandalous, who are to be, according to their merit, censured; the Careless, that are to be seasonably reproved; the Sorrowful, that must be comforted; the doubting Souls, that must be satisfied; &c. there is the Word and Ordinances which are to be dispensed to all in public; the sick that must be visited; Corrupters and Seducers must be watched against; Families in private must be visited; &c. and an account is to be given in to Christ the Lord and Owner of his Church, ⟨p. 98⟩of all this, as they expect a reward of Grace at his hands: and if they have wilfully neglected or omitted their duty in these regards, they are in danger of being cut in sunder by him, and made to receive their portion wi•• Hypocrites.
2. There is a deal to be done to and for the Vineyard, and the several plants that are in it. He that hath a Vineyard to look after, shall never want work: there ⟨p. 97⟩are so many things that belong to the dressing & tending of it; there is digging, & du•nging, and weeding, and transplanting, & pruning, and under-setting, and keeping up the hedge, and watching against wild beasts and robbers: and all this is a constant work; if it be once done. It will be to do again and again. There is no less lying on the Ministers of Christ, if they will prove themselves faithful: there are Children, tender plants in the nursery, to be looked after, and to be removed from those beds into the rows, when they are fitted for it: there are grown persons, who should be laboured with that they may be prepared for full communion: and there are those that have attained to it: each of these have their portion to be allotted to them. There are the unbelieving, who are to be called upon and not let alone; the Obstinate, who are to be solemnly warned; the Scandalous, who are to be, according to their merit, censured; the Careless, that are to be seasonably reproved; the Sorrowful, that must be comforted; the doubting Souls, that must be satisfied; &c. there is the Word and Ordinances which are to be dispensed to all in publick; the sick that must be visited; Corrupters and Seducers must be watched against; Families in private must be visited; &c. and an account is to be given in to Christ the Lord and Owner of his Church, ⟨p. 98⟩of all this, as they expect a reward of Grace at his hands: and if they have wilfully neglected or omitted their duty in these regards, they are in danger of being cut in sunder by him, and made to receive their portion wi•• Hypocrites.
