And I will destroy her vines and her figge trees, where∣of she hath sayd, These are my rewardes that my louers haue gi∣uen me: and I will make them as a forrest, and the wilde beasts shall eate them.
THe fifth kinde of affliction, Exceeding great wastenes of the whole land.* 1.1 For God shall denie vnto them not onely the in∣crease and fruits of the fields, trees, and plants: but shall moreouer destroy the trees themselues, and shall damme and stoppe vp the fountaines and springs of all good giftes and benefites. For God shall destroy and pull vp by the rootes, their vines, and wilde figge trees, and other trees growing in their land of their owne accorde, to wit, for a perpetuall testimony or witnesse of his wrath against them. Finally, he shall lay waste, and bring into a wildernesse the fieldes them selues, yea and also their whole countrey, so that af∣terwards it cannot be tilled by men: but shal be eaten vp and inha∣bited by wilde beasts. So sharpe doubtles and heauy, but yet iust are the iudgements of God against our sinnes and Idolatries, that we should all of vs betimes thinke vpon them, feele them, and auoid them: or otherwise continuing in our wickednes be oppressed with those punishments, and perish with the world, as Paul telleth the Corinthians epist. 1. cap. 11. vers 32. whome hee willeth to iudge themselues that they be not iudged. Forwe (saith he) when we are iudged or chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world, for these punishments doth the world and wicked men feele euen now at this day, and that dayly.