INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 5
"None, but he whose goings forth were from of old, from everlasting, was fit to be ruler in Israel, to be head of the church, & head over all things to the church." "A relation to Christ will magnify those that are little in the world." "Christ is our peace as a priest, making atonement for sin, & reconciling us to God; & he is our peace as a king, conquering our enemies & commanding down disquieting fears & passions; he creates the fruit of the lips, peace." "In me, says Christ, you shall have peace, when in the world you have tribulation;" "Those that threaten ruin to the church of God hasten ruin to themselves" "When infidelity is silenced, & all iniquity made to stop her mouth, when sinners are convinced & converted by the power of the gospel, in the doctrine of its ministers & the conversation of its professors, then the remnant of Jacob is like a lion." "...those who stand it out against the gospel of Christ, & continue in league with their idolatries & witchcrafts, shall fall under the wrath of God, & be consumed by it (v. 15): I will execute vengeance in anger & fury upon the heathen... such as they have not heard; idolatries shall be done away, & idolaters put to shame." CHAPTER 6 "Sin begets a controversy between God & man." "God will plead with those whom he has a controversy with, will plead with his people Israel, that they may be convinced & that he may be justified." "God reasons with us, to teach us to reason with ourselves." "They had revolted from God & rebelled against him" "He never deceived us, nor disappointed our expectations from him, never did us wrong, nor put disgrace upon us; why then do we wrong & dishonour him, & frustrate his expectations from us?" "Deep convictions of guilt & wrath will put men upon careful enquiries after peace & pardon" "All that rightly understand their own interest cannot but be solicitous what they must do to please God, to avoid his displeasure & to obtain his good-will. In order to God's being pleased with us, our care must be that the sin by which we have displeased him may be taken away, & an atonement made for it." "Those that are thoroughly convinced of sin, of the malignity of it, & of their misery & danger by reason of it, would give all the world, if they had it, for peace & pardon." "Men will part with any thing rather than their sins, but they part with nothing to God's acceptance unless they part with them." "He has shown us our end, which we should aim at, in showing us what is good, wherein our true happiness does consist; he has shown us our way in which we must walk towards that end in showing us what he requires of us." "We must do justly" "We must love mercy" "...we must delight in it, as our God does, must be glad of an opportunity to do good, & do it cheerfully." "We must walk humbly with our God." "...we must humble ourselves to walk with God... every thought within us must be brought down, to be brought into obedience to God, if we would walk comfortably with him." "The work of ministers is to explain the providences of God & to quicken & direct men to learn the lessons that are taught by them." "What is got by fraud & oppression cannot be kept or enjoyed with any satisfaction." "Sin makes a nation desolate" CHAPTER 7 "The good man is a godly man & a merciful man;" "Those are completely good men that are devout towards God & compassionate & beneficent towards men, that love mercy & walk with God." "When all flesh have corrupted their way, even the best & the most upright, what can be expected but a day of visitation, a deluge of judgments" "It is our sin against God that provokes his indignation against us" "If men be false, this is our comfort, that God is faithful; if relations be unkind, he is & will be gracious." "In our greatest distresses we shall see no reason to despair of salvation if by faith we eye God as the God of our salvation, who is able to save the weakest upon their humble petition, & willing to save the worst upon their true repentance." "My God will hear me; if the Lord be our God, he will hear our prayers, & grant an answer of peace to them. 'When I fall, & am in danger of being dashed in pieces by the fall, yet I shall arise, & recover myself again." "'When I sit in darkness, desolate & disconsolate, melancholy & perplexed, & not knowing what to do, nor which way to look for relief, yet then the Lord shall be a light to me, to comfort & revive me, to instruct & teach me, to direct & guide me, as a light to my eyes, a light to my feet, a light in a dark place.'" "He will plead my cause, & execute judgment for me" "As it was their sin that brought them into bondage, so it was God's pardoning their sin that brought them out of it" "The glory of God in forgiving sin is, as in other things, matchless, & without compare. There is no God like unto him for this" "All those that have experienced pardoning mercy cannot but admire that mercy" "Our holy wonder at pardoning mercy will be a good evidence of our interest in it." "Sin is an enemy that fights against us, a tyrant that oppresses us; nothing less than almighty grace can subdue it" "If we be left to ourselves, our iniquities will be too hard for us; but God's grace, we trust, shall be sufficient for us to subdue them, so that they shall not rule us, & then they shall not ruin us." "Faithful is he that has promised, who also will do it." NAHUM CHAPTER 1 "...great is the Lord & of great power." "If God be an almighty God, we may thence infer (v. 6), Who can stand before his indignation?" "God's anger is so fierce that it beats down all before it: The rocks are thrown down by him, which seemed immovable." "Who can stand before his indignation? Not the proudest & most daring sinner" "Let us therefore fear before him; let us stand in awe, & not sin." "The same almighty power that is exerted for the terror & destruction of the wicked is engaged, & shall be employed, for the protection & satisfaction of his own people" "What a foolish wicked thing it is for you to plot against God, as if you could outwit divine wisdom & overpower omnipotence itself!" "There is a great deal imagined against the Lord by the gates of hell, & against the interests of his kingdom in the world; but it will prove a vain thing." "Those that imagine evil against the Lord hasten evil upon themselves & their own families & interests, & ruin their own names by dishonouring his name." "Those that make themselves vile by scandalous sins God will make vile by shameful punishments." "Christ's ministers are those messengers of good tidings, that preach peace by Jesus Christ. How beautiful are the feet of those messengers!" Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 1322 - 1344.
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September 2023
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