INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 1
"What is written in the Bible, & what is preached by the ministers of Christ according to what is written there, must be heard & received, not as the word of dying men, which we may be judges of, but as the word of the living God, which we must be judged by, for so it is." "Where God has a mouth to speak we must have an ear to hear" "Sin has done all the mischief; sin has laid all waste; all the calamities of Jacob & Israel are owing to their transgressions; if they had not gone away from God, he would never have appeared thus against them." "When we feel the smart of sin it concerns us to enquire what the sin is which we smart for, that we may particularly war against that which wars against us." "...men lived most in wealth & pleasure, & they forgot God." "It is common that what is squeezed out by one lust is squandered away upon another." "We ought to lament the punishments of sinners as well as the sufferings of saints in this world" "There is indeed balm in Gilead & a physician there; but they will not apply to the physician, nor apply the balm to themselves, & therefore the wound is uncurable." "Those must expect to be first in the punishment who have been ringleaders in sin." "God knows at whose door to lay the blame of the transgressions of Israel, & whom to find guilty." CHAPTER 2 "It is bad to do mischief upon a sudden thought, but much worse to devise it, to do it with design & deliberation" "They devised it upon their beds, when they should have been asleep" "Upon their beds, where they should have been remembering God, & meditating upon him, where they should have been communing with their own hearts & examining them, they were devising iniquity." "If covetousness reigns in the heart, commonly all compassion is banished from it; & if any man love this world, as the love of the Father, so the love of his neighbour is not in him." "What is unjustly got by us will not long continue with us" "Woe to those from whom God turns away." "Those that hate to be reformed hate to be reproved, & do all they can to silence faithful ministers." "Let not those prophesy that tell us of our faults, & threaten us, but let those prophesy that will flatter us in our sins, & cry peace to us." "Wilt thou silence those that prophesy, & forbid them to speak in God's name?" "Those are enemies not only to God, but to the world, they are enemies to their country, that silence good ministers, & obstruct the means of knowledge & grace" "God's words do good to those that walk uprightly." "God's words are good words to good people, & speak comfortably to them." "Do that which is good, & thou shalt have praise for the same." "If men will silence God's ministers, it is just with God to silence them" "The righteous God will certainly reckon for injuries done to the widows & fatherless" CHAPTER 3 "Those shall have judgment without mercy that have shown no mercy. They shall cry to the Lord, but he will not hear them, in the day of their distress, as the poor cried to them in the day of their prosperity & they would not hear them." "Men cannot expect to do ill & fare well, but may expect to find, as Adoni-bezek did, that done to them which they did to others; for he is righteous who takes vengeance. With the froward God will show himself froward" "It is will with people when their leaders cause them to err" "Those who deceive others are but preparing confusion for their own faces." "Those who act honestly may act boldly; & those who are sure that they have a commission from God need not be afraid of opposition from men." "The sin of man works not the righteousness of God." "Faith builds upon the Lord, rests in him, & relies upon him, as the soul's foundation; presumption only leans upon the Lord as a prop, makes use of him to serve a turn, while still the world is the foundation that is built upon." "The sin of priests & princes is often the ruin of states & churches." "The kings act foolishly & the people suffer for it." CHAPTER 4 "...there shall be a church for God set up in the world" "The kingdom of Christ shall shine with greater lustre than ever any of the kingdoms of the earth did. It shall be as a city on a hill, which cannot be hid, Matthew 5:14." "Where we come to worship God we come to be taught of him." "Those may comfortably expect that God will teach them who are firmly resolved by his grace to do as they are taught." "Under the dominion of Christ, as that of Solomon, there shall be abundance of peace." "He that is the Lord of hosts will be the God of peace" "Peace is a blessing indeed when it strengthens our resolutions to cleave to the Lord." "The church of Christ is more numerous than any other nation, & strong in the Lord & in the power of his might." "The designs of enemies for the ruin of the church often prove ruining to themselves; & thereby they prepare themselves for destruction & put themselves in the way of it" "When God has conquering work for his people to do he will furnish them with strength & ability for it" "The glory of the victory shall redound to God." "It is God that gives us power to get wealth, which way soever it is honestly got, & therefore he must be honoured with what we get." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 1302 - 1322.
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September 2023
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