I have examined one verse for you in two sermons; I am preparing a third on the same verse if listening will not be tiresome [for you]. And I consider the third necessary. For I think that what I have done in the two sermons is adequate for our domestic vineyard, which you are, for protecting it against the snares of three sorts of foxes … who are skilled and practised at representing evil things under the appearance of the good. Truly the Lord's vineyard is not so [well protected]. I speak of that vineyard which has filled the earth, of which we too are part: an exceedingly great vineyard, planted by the Lord's hand, redeemed by his blood, watered by his word, increased by grace and fertilized by the Spirit. Therefore caring more for [our] particular property, I have been less useful to the universal [vineyard]. For its sake I am troubled by the hoard of those demolishing it, the scarcity of its defenders, and the difficulty of its defence.