INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 25
"God keeps an account, whether we do or no, how long we have enjoyed the means of grace; & the longer we have enjoyed them, the heavier will our account be if we have not improved them." "Personal & particular reformation must be insisted on as necessary to a national deliverance; every one must turn from his own evil way." "What is a provocation to God will prove in the end, hurt to ourselves, & we must bear the blame of it." "When men will not regard the judgments of God's mouth they may expect to feel the judgments of his hands, to bear the rod, since they would not hear the word; for the sinner must either be parted from his sin or perish in it." "The messengers of God's wrath will be sent against those that would not receive the messengers of his mercy." "they would not hear the voice of God's word & therefore the voice of mirth shall no more be heard among them." "It is the just anger of God that sends this judgment. The nations have provoked him by their sins, & they must fall under the tokens of his wrath." "Drunkenness deprives men, for the present, of the use of their reason, makes them mad. It takes from them likewise that which, next to reason, is the most valuable blessing, & that is health; it makes them sick, & endangers the bones & the life." "...the fierce anger of the Lord" "...he is never angry without cause; but who knows the power of his anger?" "When one nation is a seat of war every neighboring nation should hear, & fear, & make its peace with God." "Blessed be God, there is a peaceable habitation above for all the sons of peace, which is out of the reach of fire & sword." CHAPTER 26 "God's ambassadors must keep closely to their instructions, & not in the least vary from them, either to please men or to save themselves from harm. They must neither add nor diminish. Deuteronomy 4:2." "God directed him what to preach, & it is that which could not give offence to any but such as were resolved to go on still in their trespasses." "They had hitherto been deaf both to the law & to the prophets; You have not hearkened." "Those that will not be subject to the commands of God make themselves subject to the curse of God." "The corrupt priests & counterfeit prophets have always been the most bitter enemies of the prophets of the Lord." "As long as ministers keep closely to the instructions they have from heaven they need not fear the opposition they may meet with from hell or earth." "Those that persecute God's ministers hurt not them so much as themselves." "It is good to deter ourselves from sin with the consideration of the mischief we shall certainly do to ourselves by it & the irreparable damage it will be to our own souls." "There is no contending with the word of God." "God can, when he pleases, raise up great men... & it is an encouragement to us to trust him in the way of duty that he has all men's hearts in his hands." CHAPTER 27 "What is the meaning of Jeremiah's yokes?" "Ministers must thus lay themselves under the weight & obligation of what they preach to others." "Whatever any have of the good things of this world, it is what God sees fit to give them; we ourselves should therefore be content, though we have ever so little" "Those that would not serve the God that made them were justly made to serve their enemies that sought to ruin them." "When God judges, he will overcome." "It were well if sinners would, in like manner, be afraid of the destruction threatened against all those that will not have Christ to reign over them, & reason thus with themselves, 'Why should we die the second death, which is a thousand times worse than that by sword & famine, when we might submit & live?" "Prophets must be praying men; by being much in prayer they must make it to appear that they keep up a correspondence with heaven." "When God's judgments are abroad we must not seek great things, but be thankful for a little." "Though the return of the church's prosperity do not come in our time, we must not therefore despair of it, for it will come in God's time." "We are apt to set our clock before God's dial, & then to quarrel because they do not agree; but the Lord is a God of judgment, & it is fit that we should wait for him." CHAPTER 28 "God himself, though he has determined, does not desire, the death of sinners, but would have all men to be saved. Jeremiah often interceded for his people. The false prophets thought to ingratiate themselves with the people by promising them peace." "...God is gracious, & ready to turn away his wrath from those that turn away from their sins." "The word of God, in the mouth of Jeremiah, is ratified & confirmed." "If what we have spoken be the truth of God, we must not unsay it because men gainsay it; for great is the truth & will prevail. It will stand, therefore let us stand to it, & not fear that men's unbelief or blasphemy will make it of no effect." "...if the people's hearts had not been wretchedly hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, it would have prevented their being further hardened by the deceitfulness of their prophets." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 565 - 585.
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September 2023
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