But he found them still unfruitful, he thus declares by his prophet Isaia * "what could have been done more my vineyard, that I have not done in i Wherefore, when I looked that it shou bring forth grapes, brought it forth wi grapes?" At length the sentence we forth, that Jerusalem so long, and highly favoured, should be ent down, a cumberer of the ground And John the Baptis of our Lord, proclaimed the axe was then laid

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still continued unfruitful, and then after that, it was cut down, it perished by a miserable destruction, and its wretched inhabitants, are to this very hour, in the most deplorable state of banishment, from their native land; the kingdom of God has been taken away from them, and given to the Gentiles.

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bitants, which has now continued for
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every Christian church, and upon
Christian congregation, that solemn
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1. Rom. xi. 22.