INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 47
"Woe to those on whom God comes to take vengeance; for who knows the power of his anger & what a fearful thing it is to fall into his hands?" "Nothing brings a surer or sorer ruin upon any people than cruelty, especially to God's Israel." "Woe to those against whom the Lord fights, for the whole creation is at war with them." "Those that abuse their honour or power provoke God to deprive them of it, & to make them come down & sit in the dust." "God can make those sit silently that used to make the greatest noise in the world, & send those into darkness that used to make the greatest figure. Let him that glories, therefore, glory in a God that changes not, & not in any worldly wealth, pleasure, or honour, which are subject to change." "Great wealth & plenty are great temptations to sensuality, & where there is fulness of bread, there is commonly abundance of idleness." "Those that are in the height of prosperity are apt to fancy themselves out of the reach of adverse fate." "God often brings upon secure sinners those very mischiefs which they least feared, & thought themselves in least danger of." "Witchcraft is a sin in its own nature exceedingly heinous; it is giving that honour to the devil which is due to God only, making God's enemy our guide & the father of lies our oracle." "Those can expect no other than to be devoured who by their sins make themselves fuel to a devouring fire." "Happy are those who by faith & prayer deal with one that will be a very present help in time of trouble!" CHAPTER 48 "All our... professions avail nothing further than they are made in truth & righteousness. If we be not sincere in them, we do but take the name of the Lord our God in vain." "Will you not own that your God has been a good God to you? Declare this to his honour, & your own shame, who have dealt so deceitfully with him & preferred others before him." "God uses means to bring sinners to comply with him, though he knows they are obstinate." "God sent his prophets to them, but they did not hear." "God will therefore deliver his people, because he will not suffer his glory to be thus given to another." "God is jealous for the honour of his own name, & will not suffer the wrath of man to proceed any further than he will make it turn to his praise." "God will secure his own honour" "Those that would hear & understand what God says must come near, & approach to him; let them come as near as they can." "Those whom God commissions for any service the Spirit in some measure qualifies for it; & those may speak boldly, & must be heard obediently, whom God & his Spirit send." "He that redeemed us has an unquestionable right to us." "What have those to do with peace who are enemies to God?" "The quarrel sinners have commenced with God, if not taken up in time by repentance, will be an everlasting quarrel." CHAPTER 49 "Let not the ministers think it strange that they are slighted when the Master himself was." "Those whom God designs to employ as his servants he is fashioning & preparing to be so long before, when perhaps neither themselves nor others are aware of it." "Faithful ministers, though they see not the fruit of their labours, shall yet be accepted of God, & in that they shall be truly glorious, for his favour is our honour; & they shall be assisted to proceed & persevere in their labours notwithstanding." "It is in darkness that men perish. Christ enlightens men's eyes, & so makes them holy & happy." "Pardoning mercy is a release from the curse of the law, & renewing grace is a release from the dominion of sin. Both are from Christ, & are branches of the great salvation." "No evil thing shall befal those that put themselves under a divine protection" "Those who are under a divine guidance, & follows that closely, while they do so, may, upon good grounds, hope for divine comforts & cordials." "The ways in which God leads his people he himself will be the overseer of" "Church work is usually slow work; but, when God's time shall come, it shall be done suddenly." "...God has a tender affection for his church & people." "God's compassions to his people infinitely exceed those of the tenderest parents towards their children." "Some apply his engraving his church on the palms of his hands to the wounds in Christ's hands when he was crucified; he will look on the marks of them, & remember those for whom he suffered & died." "...those who wait for him, in a dependence upon his promise & a resignation to his will, shall not be made ashamed of their hope; for the vision of peace is for an appointed time, & at the end it shall speak & shall not lie." "All flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour." "God intends, by the deliverances of his church, both to notify & to magnify his own name." CHAPTER 50 "When God chastens his children, it is neither for his pleasure (Heb. 12:10) nor for his profit." "When God call men to happiness, & they will not answer, they are justly left to be miserable." "Let us repose ourselves in the many comfortable words which Christ has spoken to the weary." "None must undertake to be teachers who have not first been learners." "...it is God that wakens us morning by morning." "The Lord God will help me" "Those whom God employs he will assist, & will take care they want not any help that they or their work call for." "If God will help me, if he will justify me, will stand by me & hear me out, I shall not be confounded, as those are that come short of the end they aimed at & the satisfaction they promised themselves: I know that I shall not be ashamed." "Work for God is work that we should not be ashamed of; & hope in God is hope that we shall not be ashamed of. Those that trust in God for help shall not be disappointed; they know whom they have trusted, & therefore know they shall not be ashamed." "...there is no condemnation to those whom God justifies." "Those that truly fear God will obey the voice of Christ." "Those that make the world their comfort, & their own righteousness their confidence, will certainly meet with a fatal disappointment which will be bitterness in the end. A godly man's way may be melancholy, but his end shall be peace & everlasting light. A wicked man's way may be pleasant, but his end & endless abode will be utter darkness." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah To Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 262 - 287.
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