INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 24
"As all times, so all places, even the most remote, are present with God & under his view." "Known unto God are all his works." "A rebellious house will soon be a ruinous house." "It is fit that those who sin before all should be rebuked before all" "Those that follow after lying vanities weary themselves with the pursuit." "We may the more easily bear an affliction if it find us in the way of our duty; for nothing can hurt us, nothing come amiss to us, while we keep ourselves in the love of God." "Our dispositions must always submit to God's directions, & his command must be obeyed even in that which is most difficult & displeasing to us." "The removal of the comforts of others should awaken us to think of parting with ours too, for are we better than they?" "Those who regard not the threatenings of the word when they are preached will be made to remember them when they are executed." "Carnal people set their minds upon that on which they can set their eyes; they look at, & dote upon, the things that are seen; & it is their folly to set their minds upon that which they have no assurance of & which may be taken from them in a moment. Proverbs 23:5." CHAPTER 25 "Those are miserable that have the preaching & praying of God's prophets against them, against whom their faces are set." "The people of God have always had a great deal of ill-will borne them by this wicked world" "It is a very wicked thing to be glad at the calamities of any, especially of God's people, & a sin that God will surely reckon for" "God is jealous for his people's honour; because his own is so nearly interested in it." "Better know God & be poor than be rich & ignorant of him." "Those who glory in any other defence & protection than that of the divine power, providence & promise, will sooner or later see cause to be ashamed of their glorying." "We are forbidden to revenge or to bear a grudge." "Those that will not leave it to God to take vengeance for them may expect that he will take vengeance on them; & those that will not believe & fear his vengeance shall be made to know & feel his vengeance" CHAPTER 26 "Those that have God against them may expect all the creatures against them; for what peace can those have with whom God is at war?" "Those who know their strength are too apt to cause terror, to pride themselves in frightening those they are an over-match for." "It is just with God to make those a terror to their neighbours, by the suddenness & strangeness of their punishment, who make themselves a terror to their neighbours by the abuse of their power." "The fall of others should awaken us out of our security." "Where living sacrifices are offered to the living God, & where the lively oracles are, there the land of the living is; there David hoped to see the goodness of the Lord. Psalms 27:13." "God will himself be the glory of the lands that are the lands of the living." CHAPTER 27 "We ought to mourn for the miseries of other nations, as well as for our own, out of an affection for mankind in general" "God takes notice of the vain conceits men have of themselves in their prosperity" "...God's eye is upon men ...he takes cognizance of what they do when they are employed in their worldly business, not only when they are at church, praying & hearing, but when they are in their markets & fairs, & upon the exchange, buying & selling, which is a good reason why we should in all our dealings keep a conscience void of offence, & have our eye always upon him whose eye is always upon us." "It is ill with a people when those that sit at the stern, instead of putting them into the harbour, run them aground." "Loses & crosses are very grievous, & hard to be borne, to those that have long been wallowing in pleasure & sleeping in carnal security." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 895 - 915.
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September 2023
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