• But he found them still unfruitful, as he thus declares by his prophet Isaiah, * " 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 ?” At length the sentence went forth, that Jerusalem so long, and so highly favoured, should be cut down, as a cumberer of the ground And John the Baptis erunne of our Lord, proclaimed ws, t) the axe was then laid t of tree that twever n brg no rood fruit, ewn ar to the fir le the des and ove ved axe v 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. But the awful destruction of Jerusalem, d the miserable dispersion of its guilty bitants, which has now continued for y eighteen centuries, forcibly urges every Christian church, and upon Christian congregation, that solemn ing of the Apostle Paul : "* Be high minded, bu for if God d not the natur s, take heed ne also spare n nerefore, tha ontinue tin podness, an off for unbeand disob us endeavour ake a bet ir Saviour's instions, t) ppy Israelites, to um they dressed. Our L to us the long-sufng m in his visiting the equently, before he ut down. “Behold I come seeking fruit, |