INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 7
"The mercies which God gives us, & continues to us, are more numerous & more valuable than those he removes from us, which is a good reason why we should be thankful& not complain." "...who, or what, can stand before a fire kindled by the wrath of God?" "Whatever calamity we are under, personal or public, the forgiveness of sin is that which we should be most earnest with God for." "Sin will soon make a great people small, will diminish the numerous, impoverish the plenteous, & weaken the courageous." "See what a blessing praying people, praying prophets, are to a land, & therefore how highly they ought to be valued." "As it is the praise of great saints that they pray for those that are enemies to them, so it is the shame of many great sinners that they are enemies to those who pray for them." "Great pretenders to sanctity are commonly the worst enemies to those who are really sanctified." "What enemies are foolish men to themselves, to their own peace, to their best friends!" "God often chooses the weak & foolish things of the world to confound the wise & mighty; & a herdman of Tekoa puts to shame a priest of Bethel, when he receives from God authority & ability to act for him." "It is to no purpose to contend with the judgments of God; for when God judges he will overcome. Stopping the mouths of God's ministers will not stop the progress of God's word, for it shall not return void." CHAPTER 8 "It concerns us to enquire whether we do indeed see that which God has been pleased to show us, & hear what he has been pleased to say to us; for many a thing God speaks, God shows once, yea twice, & men perceive it not." "...summer fruits that will not keep till winter" "God has long spared them, & borne with them, but now his patience is tired out" "If sinners do not make an end of sin, God will make an end of them" "Can we spend our time better than in communion with God?" "They were so eager to increase their wealth, & make it more, that they robbed the poor to enrich themselves" "Those riches that are got by the ruin of the poor will bring ruin on those that get them." "When the poor are injured they will cry unto God, & he will hear their cry, & reckon with those that are injurious to them, for, they being his receivers, he takes the wrongs done to them as done to himself." "Those that will not tremble & mourn as they ought for national sins shall be made to tremble & mourn for national judgments" "What the judgment itself is..." "...a famine of hearing the words of the Lord" "The word of the Lord shall be precious & scarce; there shall be no vision" "...a famine of the word of God is the sorest famine, the heaviest judgment." "Those who thus give that honour to idols which is due to God alone will find that the God they affront is thereby made their enemy" "They will find that God is jealous & will resent the indignity done him, & that he will be victorious & it is to no purpose to contend with him." CHAPTER 9 "There is no living for those on whom God has said, I will slay them, no standing before his sword." "Very miserable is the case of those who have the Lord of hosts against them, for they have hosts against them, the whole creation at war with them." "...it is true of those that are called Christians, but do not live up to their name & profession, that rest in the form of piety, but live under the power of reigning iniquity, that they are to God as children of the Ethiopians; he rejects them, & their services." "If God's Israel lose the peculiarity of their holiness, they lose the peculiarity of their privileges" "...if we live not up to the obligations of God's mercies, we forfeit the honour & comfort of them." "While the world stands God will have a church in it, &, if it be fallen down in one place & among one people, it shall be raised up elsewhere." "Two things secure the perpetuity of the church - 1. God grants to it: It is the land which I have given them; & God will confirm & maintain his own grants. The part he has given to his people is that good part which shall never be taken from them; he will not revoke his grant, & all the powers of earth & hell shall not invalidate it. 2. Its interests in him: He is the Lord thy God, who has said it, & will make it good, thine, O Israel! Who shall reign for ever as thine unto all generations. And because he lives the church shall live also." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 1254 - 1269.
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September 2023
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