INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 11
"Give freely to the poor, though it may seem thrown away & lost, as that which is cast upon the waters." "God is rich in mercy to all, to us, though unworthy; he gives liberally, & upbraids not with former gifts, & we must be merciful as our heavenly Father is." "If by charity we trust God with what we have, we put it into good hands against bad times." "If we stand thus magnifying every little difficulty & making the worst of it, starting objections & fancying hardship & danger where there is none, we shall never go on, much less go through with our work, nor make any thing of it." "Those that will be deterred & driven off by small & seeming difficulties from great & real duties will never bring any thing to pass in... (covenant-love relationship w/ God) ...for there will always arise some wind, some cloud or other, at least in our imaginations, to discourage us." "God's work shall certainly agree with his word, whether we see it or no." "Be not weary of well-doing, for in due season, in God's time, & that is the best time, you shall reap. Galatians 6:9." "There is judgment to come. We must every one of us be brought into judgment" "We shall be reckoned with for all our carnal mirth & sensual pleasures in that day." "The evil of sin will be the evil of punishment" "...these flowers will soon wither, & those blossoms fall; let them therefore be knit into good fruit, which will continue & abound to a good account." CHAPTER 12 "A call to young people to think of God, & mind their duty to him, when they are young" "...the royal physician's antidote against the particular diseases of youth." "...remember thy Creator." "Call him to mind when thou art young, & keep him in mind throughout all the days of thy youth, & never forget him. Guard thus against the temptations of youth, & thus improve the advantages of it." "...old age being thus clogged with infirmities, it is the greatest folly imaginable to put off that needful work till then, which requires the best of our strength" "How can we expect God should help us when we are old, if we will not serve him when we are young? Psalms 71:17, 18." "God takes no pleasure in the legs of a man (Ps. 147:10), for their strength will soon fail; but in the Lord Jehovah there is everlasting strength; he has everlasting arms." "Some old people bear up better than others under the decays of age, but, more or less, the days of old age are & will be evil days & of little pleasure." "Let us not therefore indulge the appetites of the body, nor pamper it (it will be worms' meat shortly) nor let sin reign in our mortal bodies, for they are mortal. Romans 6:12." "All true penitents are convinced of the vanity of the world, for they find it can do nothing to ease them of the burden of sin." "Ministers should study, not for big words, nor for fine words, but acceptable words, such as are likely to please men for their good, to edification. I Corinthians 10:33." "The truths of God prick men in the heart. Acts 2:37." "From that one Shepherd all ministers must receive what they deliver, & speak according to the light of the written word." "Every word of God is pure & precious, but some words are worthy of more special remark" "Fear God, that is, worship God, give him the honour due to his name, in all the instances of true devotion, inward & outward." "Wherever the fear of God is uppermost in the heart, there will be a respect to all his commandments & care to keep them. In vain do we pretend to fear God if we do not make conscience of our duty to him." "There is a judgment to come, in which every man's eternal state will be finally determined." "Every work will then be brought into judgment, will be enquired into & called over again." "Even secret things, both good & evil, will be brought to light, & brought to account in the judgment of the great day (Romans 2:16); there is no good work, no bad work hid, but shall then be made manifest." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 1042 - 1052.
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September 2023
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