INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 3
"Perils & frights should drive us to God, not drive us from him." "Even our sorrow for sin must not hinder either our joy in God or our hope in God." "True Christian fortitude consists more in a gracious security & serenity of mind, in patiently hearing & patiently waiting, than in daring enterprises with sword in hand." "...how little fidelity & constancy are to be found among men!" "An active believer, the more he is beaten off from God, either by the rebukes of Providence or the reproaches of enemies, the faster hold he will take of him & the closer will he cleave to him;" "God's people can lift up their heads with joy, knowing that all shall work for good to them, they will own it as God that is the lifter up of their head, that gives them both cause to rejoice & hearts to rejoice." "Care & grief do us good & no hurt when they get us a praying, & engage us, not only to speak to God, but to cry to him, as those that are in earnest." "...we lie down & sleep, & awake again to the light & comfort of another day; & whence is it, but because the Lord has sustained us with sleep as with food?" "It is a great mercy when we are in trouble to have our minds stayed upon God" "When, at any time, the power of the church's enemies seems threatening, it is good to remember how often God has broken it; & we are sure that his arm is not shortened. He can stop their mouths & tie their hands." "God's people, though they may lie under the reproaches & censures of men, are surely blessed of him, who blesses indeed, & therefore can command a blessing." CHAPTER 4 "All the notice God is pleased to take of our prayers, & all the returns he is pleased to make to them, must be ascribed not to our merit, but purely to his mercy" "When men condemn us unjustly, this is our comfort, It is God that justifies;" "Those that love the world, & seek the things that are beneath, love vanity, & seek lies;" "Godly men are God's separated, sealed ones; he knows those that are his, & has set his image & superscription upon them; he distinguishes them with uncommon favours;" "Always keep up a holy reverence of the glory & majesty of God, & a holy dread of his wrath & curse, & dare not to provoke him." "Honour him, by trusting in him only, & not in your wealth nor in an arm of flesh; trust in his providence, & lean not to your own understanding; trust in his grace, & go not about to establish your own righteousness or sufficiency." "We look with an eye of faith further than we can see with an eye of sense." "When God puts grace in the heart he puts gladness in the heart;" "True joy is God's gift, not as the world giveth. John 14:27." "...let us commit ourselves & all our affairs to the guidance & custody of the divine Providence, & be satisfied that all shall be made to work for good to us if we keep ourselves in the love of God." CHAPTER 5 "...a prayer-hearing God; such he has always been ever since men began to call upon the name of the Lord, & yet is still as ready to hear prayer as ever." "If we pray fervently, & in faith, we have reason to hope" "The assurance God has given us of his readiness to hear prayer should confirm our resolution to live & die praying." "Let those therefore who delight in sin know that God has no delight in them;" "The workers of iniquity are very foolish. Sin is folly, & sinners are the greatest of all fools;" "God is greatly to be feared by all the worshippers." "The mercy of God should ever be both the foundation of our hopes & the fountain of our joy in every thing wherein we have to do with him." "...God's people. They are the righteous (v. 12); for they put their trust in God, are well assured of his power & all-sufficiency, venture their all upon his promise, & are confident of his protection in the way of their duty; & they love his name, are well pleased with all that by which God has made himself known, & take delight in their acquaintance with him." "Let all that are entitled to God's promises have a share in our prayers; grace be with all that love Christ in sincerity." "...we must by faith put ourselves under God's guidance & care, & then please ourselves with his mercy & grace & with the prospect of God's triumphs at last over all his enemies & his people's triumphs in him & in his salvation." CHAPTER 6 "To the living God we must... address ourselves, who is the only physician both of body & mind" "It has often been the lot of the best of men to be men of sorrows; our Lord Jesus himself was so." "Sorrow for sin ought to be great sorrow; so David's was; he wept so bitterly, so abundantly, that he watered his couch." "'Return, O Lord! receive me into thy favour again, & be reconciled to me." "It is an unspeakable privilege that we have a God to go to in our afflictions, & it is our duty to go to him, & thus to wrestle with him, & we shall not seek in vain." "Those that sincerely seek God's glory, & desire & delight to praise him, may pray in faith." "When God has done great things for us, this should put us upon studying what we shall do for him." "Those that will not give glory to God shall have their faces filled with everlasting shame." "...we must give glory to God, as a God ready to hear prayer, must own his goodness to us in hearing our prayers, & must encourage ourselves to wait upon him & to trust in him in the greatest straits & difficulties." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 247 - 261.
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September 2023
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