George Fox Works IV.54 (A VISITATION TO THE JEWS)

And to your fathers spake a parable, which was agreeable to the prophet's words: as a man letting forth a vineyard to husbandmen, and he sent his servants to look for fruits, and they beat him one and cast him out, and wounded another, and killed another; and last of all he sent his son, and when they saw his son, the heir of the vineyard, come, said they to the keepers of the vineyard, this is the heir, let us kill him, and cast him out, then the vineyard will be ours. And these things your fathers did fulfil, they killed him, and cast him out, then the vineyard will be ours. And these things your fathers did fulfil, they killed him, they cast him out, and delivered him up to the gentiles to be mocked, scourged, and crucified.

Now consider, what become of you since, of you husbandmen? have not you been laid waste? and was not the word fulfilled concerning his coming and rising up among the brethren? and when he was come among them, he would have gathered them as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but your fathers would not. And he shewed them how they stoned the prophets, and killed them; and how wise men should be sent among them, and scribes and prophets, some of them they should crucify and scourge in their synagogues, because they neither knew the Father, nor the prophet that he had raised up, which Moses spoke of.

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