INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
"CHAPTER 13
"It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs" "Ministers must spend, & be spent, for the good of souls." "Those whom God takes to be to him for a people he intends to be to him for a praise." "They would not cleave to God, but walked after other gods, to serve them, & to worship them" "Pride will have a fall, for God resists the proud." "Darkness will be the portion of those that will not repent to give glory to God." "Those that think to out-run the judgments of God will find their road impassable" "Those that are exalted above others in the world must humble themselves before God, who is higher than the highest, & to whom kings & queens are accountable." "Those that have been long accustomed to sin have shaken off the restraints of fear & shame; their consciences are seared" "Forgetfulness of God is at the bottom of all sin." "Whatever those trust to that forsake God, they will find it a broken reed, a broken cistern." "It is the great concern of those who are polluted by sin to be made clean by repentance, & faith, & a universal reformation." "It is an instance of the wonderful grace of God that he desires the repentance & conversion of sinners." CHAPTER 14 "They would not be ashamed of their sins, nor confounded at the sense of them, but were unhumbled under the reproofs of the word, thinking their wealth & dignity set them above repentance" "Our sins are witnesses against us, & true penitents see them to be such." "Our best pleas in prayer are those that are fetched from the glory of God's own name." "Since God is his people's all-sufficient Saviour, they ought to hope in him in their greatest straits; &, since he is their only Saviour, they ought to hope in him alone." "It becomes us in prayer to show ourselves concerned more for God's glory than for our own comfort." "What is false & groundless is vain & worthless. The vision that is not true, be it ever so pleasing, is good for nothing; it is the deceit of their heart" "Because God, though he inflicts death on sinners, yet delights not in it, it becomes his ministers, though in his name they pronounce the death of sinners, yet sadly to lament it." "God will be no loser in his honour at the long-run." "The sovereignty of God should engage, & his all-sufficiency encourage our attendance on him & our expectations from him at all times." CHAPTER 15 "There is mercy for those who have turned aside if they will return; but what favour can those expect that persist in their apostasy." "It is a great & sufficient support to the people of God that, how troublesome soever their way may be, it shall be well with them in their latter end. Psalms 37:37." "God has all men's hearts in his hand, & can turn those to favour his servants whom they were most afraid of." "It is matter of comfort to us that, whatever ails us, we have a God to go to, before whom we may spread our case & to whose omniscience we may appeal, as the prophet here, 'O Lord I thou knowest; thou knowest my sincerity, which men are resolved they will not acknowledge; thou knowest my distress, which men disdain" "God is not a man that he should lie. The fountain of life will never be to his people as waters that fail." "Faithful ministers are God's mouth to us" "Those that have God with them have a Saviour with them who has wisdom & strength enough to deal with the most formidable enemy; & those that are with God, & faithful to him, he will deliver... either from trouble or through it." CHAPTER 16 "Those that would convince others of & affect them with the word of God must make it appear, even in the most self-denying instances, that they do believe it themselves & are affected with it." "Whatever peace we enjoy, it is God's peace; it is his gift, &, if he give quietness, who then can make trouble?" "Those have cut themselves off from all true peace that have thrown themselves out of the favour of God. All is gone when God takes away from us his lovingkindness & his mercies." "God's favour is our life; take away that, & we die, we perish, we all perish." Ministers ought to be examples of self-denial & mortification." "The voice of God's prophets was not heard, was not heeded, among them & therefore no longer shall the voice of the bridegroom & of the bride, of the songs that used to grace the nuptials be heard among them." "It is the happiness of the soul to be employed in the service of God" "None of the sins of sinners either can be concealed from God or shall be overlooked by him. Proverbs 5:21." "God glorifies himself, & we must glorify him." "Need drives many to God who had set themselves a distance from him. Those that slighted him in the day of their prosperity will be glad to flee to him in the day of their affliction." "Those that are brought to God themselves cannot but rejoice greatly to see others coming to him, coming back to him." "It were well if the disappointment which some have met with in the service of sin, & the pernicious consequences of it to them, might prevail to deter others from treading in their steps." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 490 - 517.
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September 2023
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