INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
"CHAPTER 15
"...there is a providence which governs the world & all the nations of it." "It becomes a people in distress to seek to their God; & shall not we then thus walk in the name of the Lord our God, & call upon him in the time of trouble" "Prayer to the true God is heart's ease (I Sam. 1:18), but prayers to false gods are not." "Where sin has been general, & all flesh have corrupted their way, what can be expected but a general desolation?" "Those that are eager to get abundance of this world, & solicitous to lay up what they have gotten, little consider what may become of it & in how short a time it may be all taken from them." "In times of distress great riches are often great burdens, & do but increase the owner's care or the enemies' strength." "Those that continue impenitent in sin, when they are preserved from one judgment, are but reserved for another." CHAPTER 16 "Those that will not submit to Christ, nor be gathered under the shadow of his wings, shall be as a bird that wanders from her nest, that shall either be snatched up by the next bird of prey or shall wander endlessly in continual frights. Those that will not yield to the fear of God shall be made to yield to the fear of every thing else." "The Lord knows those that are his wherever he finds them, even where no one else knows them. God will find a rest & shelter for his outcasts; for, though they are persecuted, they are not forsaken. He will himself be their dwelling-place if they have no other, & in him they shall be at home." "Those that expect to find favour when they are in trouble themselves must show favour to those that are in trouble; & what service is done to God's outcasts shall no doubt be recompensed one way or other." "Those that will not be counselled cannot be helped." "They are proud, & therefore will not be subject to God himself nor regard the warnings he gives them." "Joy in God is, upon this account, far better than the joy of harvest, that it is what we cannot be robbed of. Psalms 4:6, 7." "In God therefore let us always rejoice with a holy triumph, & in other things let us always rejoice with a holy trembling, rejoice as though we rejoiced not." "Such is the glory of this world, so fading & uncertain, admired awhile, but soon slighted. Let that therefore which will soon be contemptible in our eyes in comparison with the far more exceeding weight of glory." "Let not therefore the strong glory in their strength nor the many in their numbers." CHAPTER 17 "Sinful confederacies will be no strength, no stay, to the confederates, when God's judgments come upon them." "Such is all the glory of this world; it soon withers, & is made thin; but there is a far more exceeding & eternal weight of glory designed for the spiritual seed of Jacob, which is not subject to any such decay" "It is our duty at all times to have respect to God, to have our eyes ever towards him, both as our Maker (the author of our being & the God of nature) & as the Holy One of Israel, a God in covenant with us & the God of grace; particularly, when we are in affliction, our eyes must be towards the Lord, to pluck our feet out of the net (Psalms 25:15)" "The God of our salvation is the rock of our strength; & our forgetfulness & unmindfulness of him are at the bottom of all sin." "...we should not lay up our treasure in those things which we may so quickly be despoiled of, but in that good part which shall never be taken away from us." "God will plead his church's cause, & those that meddle do it to their own hurt." CHAPTER 18 "Let all enlist under God's banner, & be on his side, & hearken to the trumpet of his word, which gives not an uncertain sound." "Men will have their saying, but God also will have his; ...we may be sure his word shall stand" "Those that unjustly trample upon others shall themselves be justly trampled upon." "God will put honour upon his people, though men put contempt upon them." "...what is offered to God must be offered in the way that he has appointed; we must be sure to attend him, & expect him to meet us, where he records his name." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 91 - 103.
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September 2023
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