INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 33
"No confinement can deprive God's people of his presence; no locks nor bars can shut out his gracious visits; nay, oftentimes as their afflictions abound their consolations much more abound, & they have the most reviving communications of his favour when the world frowns upon them." "Those that expect to receive comforts from God must continue instant in prayer." "Be the case ever so desperate, if God undertake the cure, he will effect it." "Peace & truth are the life of the soul, & Christ came that we might have that life, & might have it more abundantly. Christ alone by the power of truth (John 18:37) & by it he gives abundance of peace. Psalms 72:7" "By sin they have become filthy, & odious to God's holiness, but God will cleanse them, & purify them from their iniquity." "Nothing is more the praise & honour of a people than to have God praised & honoured among them." "Though the promise may sometimes work slowly towards an accomplishment, it works surely. The days will come, though they are long in coming." "In the Lord have I righteousness & strength. Isaiah 14:24. And we are made the righteousness of God in him." "Christ's kingdom is an everlasting kingdom" "...the covenant stands notwithstanding, as firm as that with day & night; sooner will God suffer day & night to cease than he will cast away the see of Jacob." "Christ... shall continue in the dominion of Christ, & the subjection of Christians to him, till day & night come to an end." "...all that walk according to the gospel rule are made to be the Israel of God, on whom peace & mercy shall be." CHAPTER 34 "It is better to live & die penitent in a prison than to live & die impenitent in a palace." "It is a mercy to great men to have those about them that will deal faithfully with them, & tell them the evil consequences of their evil courses, that they may reform & live." "God's compassions towards us should engage our compassions towards our brethren; we must release as we are released, forgive as we are forgiven, & relieve as we are relieved." "...what need there is of the preaching of the word; people must hear the word preached" "What God has bound us to by his precept, it is good for us to bind ourselves to by our promise." "...they did right in God's sight, v. 15" "As soon as ever they let their servants go free God let them go free." "...since they had not given liberty to their servants to go where they pleased, God would give all his judgments liberty to take their course against them without control." "Those that will not be in subjection to the law of God put themselves into subjection to the wrath & curse of God." "They had all dealt treacherously with God, & therefore shall all be involved in the common ruin without exception." "If we repent of the good we had purposed, God will repent of the good he had purposed. With the froward thou wilt show thyself froward." CHAPTER 35 "...a good man, who has his heart made continually glad with the light of God's countenance, has no little need of it" "It is our wisdom & duty to accommodate ourselves to our place & rank, & not aim to live above it." "Humility & contentment in obscurity are often the best policy & men's surest protection." "Those are in the best frame to meet sufferings who are mortified to the world & live a life self-denial." "The greatest blessing that can be entailed upon a family is to have the worship of God kept up in it from generation to generation." "The more dead we are to the delights of sense the better we are disposed for the service of God; but nothing is more fatal... than pride & luxury." CHAPTER 36 "The serious consideration of the certain fatal consequences of sin will be of great use to us to bring us to God." "The conversion of sinners from their evil courses is that which ministers should aim at in preaching." "What we have heard & known it is good for us to hear again, that we may know it better." "Prayer to God for grace to turn us is necessary in order to our turning; & those that are convinced by the word of God of the necessity of returning to him will present their supplications to him for that grace." "Fasting, without reforming & turning away from sin, will never turn away the judgment of God. Jonah 3:10." "When we are speaking to God we must be willing to hear from him; & therefore, on days of fasting & prayer, it is requisite that the word be read & preached." "When we have heard some good word that has affected & edified us we should be ready to communicate it to others that did not hear it, for their edification." "See what an enmity there is against God in the carnal mind" "Though the attempts of hell against the word of God are very daring, yet not one iota or tittle of it shall fall to the ground, nor shall the unbelief of man make the word of God of no effect. Enemies may prevail to burn many a Bible, but they cannot abolish the word of God" "There is no escaping God's judgments by struggling with them. Who ever hardened his heart against God & prospered?" "...those who contend with God's woes do but prepare for themselves heavier of the same kind." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald. pgs. 617 - 636.
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September 2023
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