INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 12
"Faith comes by hearing that word of prophecy which is more sure than vision." "Those are to be reckoned rebellious that shut their eyes against the divine light & stop their ears to the divine law. The ignorance of those that are willingly ignorant, that have faculties & means & will not use them, is as far from being their excuse that it adds rebellion to their sin. None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not see, that will not hear." "...ministers must be willing to go through the most difficult & inconvenient offices... If but one soul be awakened to consider, our care & pains will be well bestowed." "We do all things (that is, we are willing to do any thing), dearly beloved, for your edifying." "When God has remarkably delivered us from the deaths wherewith we were surrounded we must look upon it that for this, and among others, we were spared, that we might glorify God & edify others by making a penitent acknowledgment of our sins." "The decay of virtue in a nation brings on a decay of every thing else" "Those are happy afflictions, how grievous soever to flesh & blood, that help to introduce us into & improve us in an acquaintance with God." "...God will certainly silence the lying proverbs, & the lying prophecies, with which they buoyed up their vain hopes, & will make them ashamed of both." "As truth was older than error, so it will survive it; it got the start, & it will get the race." "...God will certainly, & very shortly, accomplish every word that he has spoken." "With men saying & doing are 2 things, but they are not so with God" CHAPTER 13 "These false prophets... 1. They pretend to have a commission from God, whereas he never sent them." "They are prophets out of their own hearts" "They say, The Lord saith; they pretend to be his messengers, but the Lord has not sent them, has not given them any orders." "Foolish prophets are not of God's sending, for whom he sends he either finds fit or makes fit. Where he gives warrant he gives wisdom. 2. They pretend to have instructions from God, whereas he never made himself & his mind known to them: They followed their own spirit" "3. They took no care to prevent the judgments of God that were breaking in upon the kingdom." "They should have made it their business by preaching & advice to bring people to repentance & reformation, & so have made up the hedge, & put a stop to the judgments of God; but this was none of their care; they contrived how to please people, not how to profit them." "Those are in a woeful condition that have God against them. Woe, & a thousand woes, to those that have made him their enemy." "Doctrines that are groundless, though ever so grateful, that are not built upon a scripture foundation nor fastened with a scripture cement, though ever so plausible, will stand men in any stead; & those hopes of peace & happiness which are not warranted by the word of God will but cheat men, like a wall that is well daubed indeed, but ill built." "An angry God has winds & storms at command wherewith to alarm secure sinners" "Whatever men think to shelter themselves with against the judgments of God, while they continue unreformed, will prove but a refuge of lies & will not profit them in the day of wrath." "...no doom will be more fearful than that of unfaithful ministers, that flattered sinners in their sins." "Those greatly pollute God's holy name that make use of it to give countenance to falsehood & wickedness." "Those have a great deal to answer for who grieve the spirits, & weaken the hands, of good people, & who gratify the lusts of sinners, & animate them in their opposition of God" CHAPTER 14 "Many who have no idols to their sanctuary have idols in their hearts, which is no less a usurpation of God's throne & a profanation of his name." "Humble worshippers God answers according to the multitude of his mercies, but bold intruders he answers according to the multitude of their idols" "The judgment of God will dwell with men according to what they are really (that is, according to what their hearts are), not according to what they are in show & profession." "Those that join themselves to idols separate themselves from God" "The punishments of some are designed for the prevention of sin, that others may hear, & fear, & take warning. When we see what becomes of those that go astray from God we should thereby be engaged to keep close to him." "Those whom God takes into covenant with himself must first be cleansed from the pollutions of sin; & those who are cleansed shall not only be saved from ruin, but be entitled to all the privileges of God's people." "Grievous sins bring grievous plagues." "...God often spares very wicked places for the sake of a few godly people in them." "Abused patience will turn at last into inexorable wrath" "It is a very comfortable sight to see people, when they are under the rod, repenting & humbling themselves, justifying God & accepting the punishment of their iniquity." "When afflictions have done their work, & have accomplished that for which they were sent, then will appear the wisdom & goodness of God in sending them, & God will be not only justified, but glorified in them." CHAPTER 15
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September 2023
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