INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 28 "Tyrus... God resists the proud." "He thought himself to have as much wisdom & strength as God himself, & as incontestable an authority, & that his prerogatives were as absolute & his word as much a law as the word of God." "Men must be made to know that they are but men. Psalms 9:20." "Jesus Christ was both God & man." "It was the ruin of our first parents, & ours in them, that they would be as gods. Genesis 3:5." "Knowledge puffeth up: it is hard to know much & not to know it too well & to be elevated with it." "Those therefore that are knowing must study to be humble & to evidence that they are so." "It is just with God that our enemies should make that their prey which we have made our pride." "Many expositors have suggested that besides the literal sense of this lamentation there is an allegory in it, & that it is an allusion to the fall of the angels that sinned, who undid themselves by their pride." "Those that have much to do in the world are in great danger of doing much amiss" "All God's judgments upon sinners take rise from themselves; they are devoured by a fire of their own kindling." "When God is sanctified he is glorified, for his holiness is his glory; & those whom he is not sanctified & glorified by he will be sanctified & glorified upon, by executing judgments upon them, which declare him a just avenger of his own & his people's injured honour." "It is God that judges, & he will overcome." "God will be glorified in the restoration of his people to their former safety & prosperity." "...God will now both cure them of their sins & ease them of their iniquities & so will be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, will recover the honour of his holiness, to the satisfaction of all the world." "...the full accomplishment of this promise is reserved for the heavenly Canaan, when all the saints shall be gathered together, & every thing that offends shall be removed, & all griefs & fears for ever banished." CHAPTER 29 "How high soever the princes & potentates of the earth are, there is a higher than they (Ecclesiastes 5:8), a God above them, that can control them, &, if they be tyrannical & oppressive, a God against them, that will be free to reckon with them." "Worldly carnal minds please themselves with, & pride themselves in, their property, forgetting that whatever we have we only have the use of it, the property is in God. We ourselves are not our own, but his." "He only that is the great Creator can say of this world, & of everything in it, I have made it for myself." "Self is the great idol that all the world worships, in contempt of God & his sovereignty." "Those who abuse their power will justly be stripped of it: & God, as King of nations, will find out a way to maintain the injured rights & liberties, not only of his own, but of other nations." "Even great men & bad men are tools that God makes use of & are working for him even when they are pursuing their own covetous & ambitious designs; so wonderfully does God overrule all to his own glory." "It bodes well to a people when God enlarges the liberties of his ministers & they are countenanced & encouraged in their work." CHAPTER 30 "What can protect a provoking people when the righteous God comes forth to contend with them?" "Those that deceive others are commonly paid in their own coin; they are themselves deceived." "When he pours out his fury upon a place, when he sets fire to it, (v. 15, 16), neither its strength nor its multitude can stand it in any stead." "God can strike a terror upon those that are most secure; fearfulness shall, when he pleases, surprise the most presumptuous hypocrites." "The Lord is known by the judgments which he executes." "If less judgments do not prevail to humble & reform sinners, God will send greater." CHAPTER 31 "The falls of others, both into sin & ruin, are intended as admonitions to us not to be secure or high-minded, nor to think we stand out of danger." "Those who have power ought to use it for the protection & comfort of those whom they have power over; for to that end, they are entrusted with power." "When men's outward condition rises their minds commonly rise with it; & it is very rare to find a humble spirit in the midst of great advancements." "God is the judge, who puts down one, & sets up another (Psalms 75:7)" "When great men fall, a great many fall with them, as a great many in like manner have fallen before them." "The fall of proud presumptuous men is intended for warning to others to keep humble. It would have been well for Nebuchadnezzar, who was himself active in bringing down the Assyrian, if he had taken the admonition." "Great men & great multitudes, with the great figure & great noise they make in the world, when God comes to contend with them, will soon become little, less than nothing, like Pharaoh & all his multitude." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 915 - 932.
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September 2023
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