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Such as these are the questions which meekness would put to the soul, and in answer to them would abstract all that which passion is apt to suggest, and hear reason only, as it becomes rational creatures to do. Three great dictates of meekness we find put together in one Scriptu…

Labor for the knowledge of the most high. Solomon had more of the worlds treasure then a thousand of you have, and yet we finde him hard at prayer, tugging with God for knowledge, 1 Chronicles 1:10. All these outward enjoyments are but vaginae bonorum, as afflictions are vaginae…

1. The order of Nature: as when the firstborn is put first. And thus David's sons are numbered according to their age; first, Amnon, then Daniel, the third Absalom, etc. 1 Chronicles 3.1, 2, 3. 2. The order of dignity, when as those are put in the first place, not which are the…

Thou shalt call his name John The name was given, I think, to the Baptist in order to heighten the authority of his office. Yohanan, (1 Chronicles 3:15,) for which the Greeks employ Ioannes, signifies in Hebrew the grace of the Lord. Many suppose that the son of Zacharias was so…

"Indocti;" — "quelques gens n'entendans pas le propos," — "some people not understanding the design." persons ventured to strike out the repetition of it as superfluous; which, he tells us, ought not to have been done, because Jehoiakim, the father of king Jehoiakim, had the nam…

He wrote the book of Ezra; and he is supposed to have written the book of Chronicles, at least of compiling them, if he was not the author of the materials, or all the parts of these writings. That these books were written, or compiled and completed, after the captivity, the thi…

Well then, live so that you may not disgrace your lineage; and you that come of worthy ancestors, walk answerably to the dignity of your extraction: the images of your progenitors are not more sullied with dust, and smoke, and age, than they are with your vices. The Spirit of Go…

2. The Chaldee reads 'Judges' in the plural. By the Judge, says Ainsworth, is understood the high council or senate of Judges, even as they who are called Priests, verse 9, are called 'the Priest,' verse 12, and 1 Chronicles 4:42, many captains are in the Hebrew called a head. 3…

(Isaiah 43:4): Since you were precious in my sight, [illegible] you have been glorious, or honorable. (1 Chronicles 4:9): And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren; the same word, and way, Verse 10: And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, oh that you would bless me i…

This we shall manifest by passing briefly through them. The first difference is in the first words; [in non-Latin alphabet], and you Bethlehem Ephrata; which are rendered in the Evangelist; [in non-Latin alphabet]; and you Bethlehem in the land of Judah; that Bethlehem which was…

And the original word will bear it, being used (as learned Mercer observes) for production as well as conception. So (1 Chronicles 4:17) And she bore Miriam and Shammai, etc. She bore, is the word in this text of Job: We may take it either way; the sense is clear according to ou…

This is a congenerate principal of human nature, and can be no more separate from it than humanity; the very elective power in man involves it in it. They were the cries of nature, as well as of grace which he uttered in that request (1 Chronicles 4:10): Oh that you would bless…

For these things are not reckoned from the nature or kind of the sin, but from its prevalency and customariness, wherein its pride, boldness, and contempt of God does consist. To the same purpose, if I mistake not, prays Jabez (1 Chronicles 4:10). O that you would bless me indee…

There is no man that speaks for us or against us, that does us either hurt or good, but GOD is present with him, and stirs him up to it, whatever it be. (1 Chronicles 5:26) And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul King of Assyria, etc.: that is, he himself was present…

2. If he be notoriously wicked. Thus Reuben for committing abominable incest lost his birthright (Genesis 49:4; 1 Chronicles 5:1). Many particular crimes are reckoned up by the civil lawyers, which would be too long here to recite.

§ 11 In the first, or Solomon's Temple, there administered eighteen high priests, whose names are recounted by Josephus, lib. 11. cap. 4. lib. 20. cap. 9. Of these, the first was Zadock; the last Jehozadeck who was carried into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar (1 Chronicles 6:14), th…

The Song of Deborah was sung by her and Barak (Judges 5:1). Under the Kings of Judah, and after the return from Captivity, the Officers of the Church only sang for the more orderly carrying on of that Ordinance (1 Chronicles 6:31, 32 & 16:4; Nehemiah 11:22, 23). In the New Testa…

A wall, that is defensive, a wall of fire, that is offensive. 3. When it may be for the good of his people, he will raise up deliverance to them (1 Chronicles 11:14). The Lord saved them by a great deliverance. God reigning as King, can save any way; by contemptible means, the b…

The ninth particular instance, brought to prove that he is the chiefest among ten thousand, is, that his countenance is like Lebanon: the word countenance, as it is in the original, comes from a root that signifies to see, therefore countenance is used in Scripture, not only to…

The other fell about March when their Corn was grown up, filling the Straw and Ear for the Harvest, as the word probably signifies. Hence it is said that Jordan overfloweth all his Banks at the time of Harvest (Joshua 3:15; 1 Chronicles 12:15), which was occasioned by the fallin…

So if a carnal man could see with a spiritual man's eyes, he would wonder at those surpassing beauties in Jesus Christ, which now he makes light of. 3. A righteous man is wise to discern the times (1 Chronicles 12:32). The children of Issachar were men that had understanding of…

Answer: In Scripture, children of the same womb, are brethren: men of the same blood, are brethren; as Abram and Lot (Genesis 13:8). Men of the same country are brethren, thus Saul's countrymen are called his brethren (1 Chronicles 12:2). And James is called our Lord's brother,…

What is here said with a special reference to riches, may be properly extended to every other description of vice. As God pronounces everywhere such commendations of sincerity, and hates a double heart, (1 Chronicles 12:33; Psalm 12:2,) all are deceived, who imagine that he will…

Well, if it be wisdom to gain time for the service of God, surely it is wisdom to spend time in the service of God. It was the singular character and commendation of the Issacharites, in (1 Chronicles 12:32), They had understanding in the times, to know what Israel ought to do.…

This carnal policy inquires not into, but is wholly swallowed up in the concatenation of things among themselves, applying secondary causes to events, without once looking to the name of God, like swine following acorns under the tree, not at all looking up to the tree from wher…

I pray God none such be found in our days. (1 Chronicles 12:32) it is said of the men of Issachar, that they had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do. Israel is in the dark, and knows not what to do, if the times and seasons be not discovered to them.

God is so jealous of his glory, that he cannot endure his worship should be corrupted with the least mixture of man: Nadab and Abihu, for offering with strange fire which God commanded them not, were destroyed with fire from the Lord (Leviticus 10:1, 2). Vzzah, for touching the…

So (Exodus 12:3) compared with verse 21. This if he will not take well from us, let him take it from an Anti-presbyterian, who observeth from (1 Chronicles 13:1, 2, 4) and (2 Chronicles 1:3) that both Kahal and [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] are used for the Elders and Governours. Gu…

Also for the better relieving of the poor, distributors of the Church relief (Acts 6:2; Romans 12:8; 1 Timothy 3:7, etc.). All which we must know, delight in, procure, and every one according to his own calling set forward; as (Psalms 27:4; 42:23; 1 Chronicles 13:1; 29:6, 7, 8,…

v. 14. I will be his Father, and he shall be my son; if he commit iniquity, I will chastise him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men. v. 15. But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. (1 Chronicles…

Be sober and watch, steadfast in the faith; faith lets us see ourselves to be but empty shallow creatures: if we be now never so full of strength, we shall run it out before the next Sabbath, and therefore pray, Lord keep this frame in us forever, pray for establishing in that g…

See (Psalm 68:1, 3, 13, 18-24). And we have an account how that all the people, from Shihor of Egypt, even to the entering in of Hamath, gathered together, and appeared to join and assist in that great affair; and that all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, w…

(2) Because, it is the duty of the civil magistrate being born within the church, to take care that peace and unity be preserved and kept in the Church: that the truth and Word of God, be entirely, and soundly preached and obeyed: that blasphemies and heresies be kept under and…

So dealt in this matter the holy men and prophets of old (1 Peter 1:10, 11). And as for want hereof, the whole church of the Jews perished at this season; so in all ages sundry particular persons did wofully miscarry; see Leviticus 10:1, 2, 3; 2 Samuel 6:6, 7; 1 Chronicles 14:11…

Which we see now fulfilled in the Papacy. For they stick not to belch out glorious titles without any shame at all, albeit the lamentable confusion [2 pages missing] to flight in the valley of Baal-perazim by the pursuit of David (2 Samuel 5:20-25; 1 Chronicles 14:11). Secondly,…

That it is no privilege of truth, to furnish its assertors, with this persuasion, that the dissenters from it, ought forcibly to be opposed, restrained, punished: no false religion ever yet in the world, did enthrone itself in the minds of men, enjoying a civil sovereignty over…

4. It is when the son comes in the room and stead of the father, or one kills another, which is a sad exchanging of one person for another, and though the following king does not act in the person, or by the name and authority of him who went before, yet there is one person chan…

Or in Revelation 13:3 ('All the world wondered after the beast'), which few would take as meaning every individual person on earth? That 'all nations,' an expression of equal breadth with 'the world,' is to be understood in like manner is apparent from Romans 1:5; Revelation 18:…

Yes, and after their apostasy, under the spiritual Babylonish captivity, to reform any error crept into the Churches of the old and new Testament: it was their holy custom, to reduce all things to their first institution: Quod primum verum, that which was first is true, accordin…

God is so jealous of his glory, that he cannot endure his worship should be corrupted with the least mixture of man: Nadab and Abihu, for offering with strange fire which God commanded them not, were destroyed with fire from the Lord (Leviticus 10:1, 2). Vzzah, for touching the…

And in these Gospel times, Baptism and the Lord's Supper are external forms or images, but they are of God's appointing; but such as God has not appointed are forbidden in this commandment. For it is not enough to worship the true God, but we must worship him in the right way, a…

To their Priests and Levits, Cyprian does rightly liken our Pastors and Deacons, for however sundry things were done by the Priests and Levites, which were typical and Jewish onely; yet may we well parallell our Pastors with their Priests, in respect of a perpetuall Ecclesiastic…

The Sacraments also has he given, not to be neglected, as most excellent pledges of his sure favor and mercy in Christ (Romans 4:11; 6:3, 4; Ephesians 5:26; 1 Corinthians 11:23). The order of his Church set down in his word (Hebrews 3:2; 1 Chronicles 28:12, 19; 2 Chronicles 29:2…

When God at first began his great work for the deliverance of his people, after their long continued bondage in Egypt, there were false wonders mixed with true, for a while; which hardened the unbelieving Egyptians, and made them to doubt of the divinity of the whole work. When…

With no better than these does he rank and associate the many thousands of God's choice and dear people, who differ in this circumstantial point from him. (3.) He compares it with the sin of Nadab and Abihu, and with that of Israel, with respect to the ark (1 Chronicles 15:13),…

Be sober and watch, steadfast in the faith; faith lets us see ourselves to be but empty shallow creatures: if we be now never so full of strength, we shall run it out before the next Sabbath, and therefore pray, Lord keep this frame in us forever, pray for establishing in that g…

And so it was at the time of the dedication of the temple of Solomon (1 Kings chapter 8 and 2 Chronicles chapters 5, 6, and 7), which was at the time of the feast of tabernacles, at the same time that the tabernacle was erected in the wilderness. And the Levites were primarily,…

(1 Thessalonians 4:11): And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. It will be a very dangerous thing for laymen, in either of these respects, to invade the office of a minister; if this be common among us we…

So God will do much for his people, he will give them the inheritance; he will put some of Christ's glory as mediator upon them, but his essential glory he will not part with; in the throne he will be greater. 2. The glory which is ascribed to God, or which his creatures labor t…

Qu. 12. What is principally to be attended to by us in the manner of the celebration of the worship of God, and observation of the institutions and ordinances of the Gospel? Answ. That we observe and do all whatever the Lord Christ has commanded us to observe, in the way that he…

To give yet farther strength to all these considerations, that we may not only have rules and precepts, but examples also for our instruction, God has given many signal instances of his severity against persons who by ignorance, neglect, or regardlesness, have miscarried in not…

And although some of the ways which he does appoint may seem to have a great compliance in them to the light of nature, yet in his worship he accepts them not on that account, but merely on that of his own institution. And this as he has declared his will about in the second Com…

1. There was then a clear word of institution for them. The trumpets of silver and cornets of horn, were instituted by the hand of Moses (Numbers 10, in the ten first verses, and Leviticus 23:23, 24), and in David's time there were added cymbals of brass, and harps and psalterie…

You have been my help, you have delivered my soul from death, will you not deliver my feet from falling? But in the church's concerns too (1 Chronicles 16:11-12): seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually; remember the marvelous works that he has done. A reflecti…

Yes, further, this land, it was a typical land of the Church, and a typical land of heaven, for so the Apostle speaking of that place in the Psalms, that he swore in his wrath, that they should not enter in his rest. The Apostle in (Hebrews 3:7) seems to apply it to the rest of…

2. God does nothing in the election of Peter, more than of Judas; nor can grace and mercy have place in the choosing of the one, rather than the other; but as free will is foreseen to play the game ill, or well, so go the eternal decrees of election and reprobation, and there ca…

Verse 14, Neither with you only do I make this Covenant and this Oath. 1 Chronicles 16:15, 16. Be you mindful always of his Covenant—Even of the Covenant which he made with Abraham, and his Oath unto Isaac—

And it is a style which we too should be ambitious of. If we would not be miserable for ever, we must be the mystical, the spiritual seed of Israel; but such are so saluted in (1 Chronicles 16:13), O you seed of Israel his servant. As our Father's friend, so our Father's Lord, w…

Israel marrying and Israel according to the flesh is the holy seed (Nehemiah 7:61; Nehemiah 9:2) the holy seed have mingled with the heathen. 1 Chronicles 16:13: O you seed of Israel his servants, you children of Jacob whom he has chosen, be mindful of his Covenant. And this hol…

The meditation of our experiences would, 1. Raise us to thankfulness. Considering that God has set a hedge of providence about us, he has strewed our way with roses; this would make us take the Harp and Vial, and praise the Lord; and not only praise, but record, 1 Chronicles 16.…

The return of the ark of God to dwell in Zion, in the midst of the land of Israel, after it had been long absent, first in the land of the Philistines, and then in Kirjath-jearim, in the utmost borders of the land, did lively represent the return of God to a professing people, i…

Use 5. Get an interest in God, and then this glorious power is engaged for you. God gives it under his hand, that he will put forth the whole power of his Godhead for the good of his people (1 Chronicles 17:24). The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel.

The whole Oracle is as followeth, v. 11. The Lord telleth you, that he will make you an house. v. 12. And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, which shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his Kingd…

It seems to be of more importance, that if the Objectors may be believed, the writer of this Epistle citeth testimonies out of the Old Testament, that are no ways to his purpose, nor at all prove the matter that he produceth them for; discovering at least, that he wrote with a f…

And setting aside that actual inspiration by the Holy Ghost, which they had for the declaration and writing of that Word of God which came to them in particular, and the prophets themselves were subject to mistakes. So was Samuel when he thought Eliab should have been the Lord's…

4. It may be also, that Solomon after his recovery, did never recover his former luster, nor attain to such a profitable way of appearing in God's public matters, for which formerly he had been so observable. For so it is taken notice even of David, after his fall, that his foll…

ib. 1 Chronicles 17:4. You shall not build me a house to dwell in. To think that David did evil in determining to build God a temple, because there was in Scripture no commandment that he should build it, were very injurious: the purpose of his heart was religious and godly, the…

I am the Almighty God, walk before me. There is a League offensive and defensive between God and his Saints, he gives it under his hand, that he will put forth the whole power of his Godhead for them, 1 Chronicles 17:24. The Lord of Hostes is the God of Israel, even a God to Isr…

Never a rod in the house? Yes, 'Then will I visit their transgressions with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes,' whip out their stubbornness and sinfulness, 'but my loving kindness will I not take from him as I did from Saul' (1 Chronicles 17:13). Let the saints consider thi…

Second, faith though it strongly desires the strongest abilities, yet faith comes to them, as if there were no life in them, as if they were all but empty vessels and had no life in them, unless Christ be pleased to breathe in them, and therefore it comes to Christ, and entreats…

And as it was related to that, it was its eastern boundary. It is so spoken of (Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 1:7 and 11:24; Joshua 1:4; 2 Samuel 8:3; 1 Chronicles 18:3; 1 Kings 4:21; Ezra 4:20). Agreeable to this diverse respect or relation of this river, under which…

But David entirely brought them under. He subdued the Jebusites, and he subdued the whole nation of the Philistines, and all the rest of the remains of the seven nations of Canaan: 1 Chronicles 18:1. "Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued…

God complains of their iniquity, as a burden, as if they made a cart of God, and loaded him with sins as with sheaves (Amos 2:13). Again, when we suffer for God, he has promised to help and assist us with counsel and comfort, with succor and support; but when we sin, God leaves…

3. The devil can excite and stir up the corruption within, and work some inclinableness in the heart to embrace the temptation. Thus he stirred up corruption in David's heart, and provoked him to number the people (1 Chronicles 21:1). Satan can blow the spark of lust into a flam…

As we may see in David, how strong a disposition we find in him needlessly to number the people (2 Samuel 24) — against all reason as well as religion, and the persuasion and opposition not of Joab only, but of others of his counselors — a man would wonder that one so holy and w…

And God sometimes gives to Satan power over the sons and daughters of Abraham (Luke 13) even as well as others, and as their bodies to be vexed by him, so their spirits; and as to provoke them to sin, so much more to terrify for sin — there being more of punishment than of sin i…

It is said, God moved David to number the people (2 Samuel 24:1): "the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go number Israel and Judah." Yet Satan is said to provoke David to number the people (1 Chronicles 21:1): "And Satan stood…

Both ways he lies in ambush in the creature. Sometimes he tempts us by the good things of the world (1 Chronicles 21:1), and Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel, so glorying in his might, and puissance, and victory over neighbor kings. So meaner peo…

Section 24. Thus God who himself began the writing of the Word with his own finger, Exodus 31:11; after he had spoken it Exodus 20; appointing or approving the writing of the rest that followed, Deuteronomy 31:12; Joshua 23:6; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Kings 17:13; 1 Chronicl…

See it in Christ's instance (Matthew 4:1): It is said, "He was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of the Devil"; that is, led by the Good and Holy Spirit, to be tempted by the evil spirit. So (2 Samuel 24:1) compared with (1 Chronicles 21:1): God moved David…

4 They that tempt men to sin come under the devil's denomination, and do his work, who is the tempter (Matthew 4:1 and 1 Thessalonians 3:5); he tempts all men to one or other sin. The devil had a hand in Cain's murdering his brother (1 John 3:12), in Judas's treason (Luke 22:2),…

But true desires are costly. David would not offer burnt offerings without cost (1 Chronicles 21:24). A hungry man will give anything for food, as fell out in the siege of Samaria (2 Kings 6:25).

Let Jeroboam set up idolatry, and Israel is soon in a snare; it's said the people willingly walked after his Commandment, Hosea 5:11. Secondly, should the sin stay at Court, and the infection go no further, yet the sin of such a one, (though a good man) may cost a whole Kingdom…

Even when the Saints fall into a sin in its nature presumptuous, they do not commit it so presumptuously as others; there is a part true to God in their bosomes, though over-voted Moses spoke unadvisedly, but the devil had his instruments to provoke him, quite against the good m…

And if we humble ourselves deeply and unfeignedly, God cannot find in his heart to destroy us. It is a wonderful scripture which we have (1 Chronicles 21:16): David lift up his eyes, and saw the Angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in hi…

And: I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing; but now, I beseech you, remove the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly. Of Ezra: O my God, I am ashamed and confounded to lift up my eyes to you, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our he…

And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we dye not, for we have added to all our sinnes this evil, to aske us a King. They were not contented with their old government, but they would alter and change it: that sin being their particul…

Yes, the Devil will put good men upon doing ill. Thus we read, in (1 Chronicles 21:1), Satan provoked David to number Israel. And so, the Devil provokes men that are eminent in holiness, to such things as may become eminently pernicious; he provokes them especially to pride, and…

I have inclined my heart to perform your Statutes always to the end (Psalm 119:112); is there a constant inclination towards God? Now set your hearts to seek the Lord (1 Chronicles 22:19); is the heart set? What is your constant course and walk (Romans 8:1)?

As the assurance of salvation does not make the child of God the more presumptuous, but the more humble; neither does it make him negligent, but diligent in the way of holiness, and in all the acts of his spiritual warfare; so that every man that has this hope in him, purifies h…

For all things came of you, and of your own have we given you. And when David in (1 Chronicles 22:14), when David had provided a thousand thousand talents of silver, and an hundred thousand talents of gold for the building of the Temple of God, besides brass and iron, without we…

I know there is some difference among learned men, about reducing the Hebrew signatures of moneys to our present account. But let the estimate be as low, as by any can reasonably be imagined, setting aside what Solomon expended of his own revenue and getting; the provision left…

They pretend to make use of faith for seeing, but not for working: this faith is fancy. O that Christians had a spirit of activity in them (1 Chronicles 22:16). Arise and be doing, and the Lord be with you.

Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Aminadab, in the very work. A strange difference of temper is to be observed in David before the Psalm be over (1 Chronicles 22:16). Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with you.

Bad purposes are more easily resolved and performed than good; Satan, the world, and the flesh do not hinder but further them. So that good resolutions need to be thoroughly made (1 Chronicles 22:19). Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God.

Now grace prevails, when the scales are cast on grace's side. I say it is the habitual bent, not for a pang, the heart must be set to seek the Lord (1 Chronicles 22:19). Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; and the course of our endeavors, the strength and…

They have a month's mind to that which is good, but not a thorough resolution; as Agrippa, almost persuaded, but not altogether. Such a desire as will bear up against a strong tide of opposition, it is called the setting of the heart (1 Chronicles 22:19): "Now set your heart and…

Many have light inclinations, or wavering resolutions; but their hearts are not fixedly, habitually bent to please God; therein chiefly lies this sound heart, that does inseparably cleave to God in all things. (1 Chronicles 22:19) Now set your hearts to seek the Lord God of your…

It is God's work to incline the heart; but when the work of grace is past upon us, then the believer does voluntarily incline himself, his will is bent to serve God, not by fits and starts, but always to the end. (1 Chronicles 22:7) Now set your hearts to seek the Lord — that is…

It is expounded of Christ, but was first spoken of Solomon, the Type (1 Samuel 7:14). 'My mercy, that is, my covenant-mercy to the Son of David and his seed, shall stand sure as the days of heaven' (Psalm 89:28, 29, 34, 35, 36; 1 Chronicles 22:10). 'He shall build a house for my…

And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son. In the literal sense, it is meant of Solomon (2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 22:10) and is meant here of David. Athanasius proves him hence to be God, the first begotten of many brethren.

Never think to be brought to Heaven as the passengers in a ship are brought to their port sleeping. 1 Chronicles 22.16. Arise and be doing.

It's true, he is called frequently the Son of man, but never when any prays to him: and he is reckoned in his genealogy, David's son, Abraham's son, the son of Adam; but the son of David is his ordinary style when prayers are directed to him in the days of his flesh. The reasons…

I fear no evil; but believe that it shall ever go well with me. Hereupon also faithful parents exhort their children to trust in God: indeed quietly they commend their own souls into God's hands, and commend their children to God's providence, and that upon this ground, exhortin…

The fourth to Moses in the giving of the Law, and erection of the Judaical Church in the Wilderness, to which there were three principal heads of subservient revelations: 1. To David, which was peculiarly designed to perfect the revelation of the will of God concerning the Old T…

But those laws were now abolished by David; and they were no more to carry those things, as they had been used to do till David's time. But David appointed them to other work instead of it; see 1 Chronicles 23:26. "And also unto the Levites, they shall no more carry the tabernac…

And if the High Priest did at any time minister in this part of the Sanctuary, he did it not as the High Priest, but as a Priest only; for all his peculiar service belonged to the most Holy Place. In process of time when the Priests of the posterity of Aaron were multiplied, and…

23. When the days were fulfilled. Λειτουργία is employed by Luke to denote a charge or office, which passed, as we have said, to each of them in regular order, (1 Chronicles 24:3.) We are told that, when the time of his office had expired, Zacharias returned home.

Now, it belongs to the arrangement of history to mark the date of the transaction; but for no light reason did the word king mark, at the same time, the wretchedness of that period, in order to remind the Jews, that their eyes ought now to be turned to the Messiah, if they would…

Thus we find the several orders of priests and the Levites, the porters, and singers, after the captivity. So we find the courses of the priests appointed by David still continuing in the New Testament; so Zacharias the father of John the Baptist was a priest of the course of Ab…

The Jewish Church, not as it was a Church, but as it was Jewish, had an high Priest, typisying our great high Priest Jesus Christ. As it was Jewish, it had Musicians to play upon Harpes, Psalteries, Cymbals, and other Musical Instruments in the Temple (1 Chronicles 25:1). Concer…

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2. Sometimes more largely, for the publishing of spirituall things to the glory of God, and edification of our selves or others. And in this sence Master Perkins (in his Prophetica) maketh two parts of it, 1. Preaching of the Word. 2. Prayer; for which he quoteth (Genesis 20:7),…

Therefore to make a difference between God's kingdom, power, and glory, and those of earthly kings, it is said, Yours is the kingdom, etc. that is, that God has all these in himself, and from himself, and men from him. The kingdom] These words (1 Chronicles 26:11) are fully expo…

But as it was a Church, and not as Jewish, it had foure sorts of ordinary office-bearers, Priests, Levites, Doctors, and Elders, and we conformablie have Pastors, Deacons, Doctors, and Elders. To their Priests and Levits, Cyprian does rightly liken our Pastors and Deacons, for h…

First, our willingness is more esteemed than our service. Therefore David counsels Solomon, not only to serve God, but with a willing mind (1 Chronicles 28:9). The will makes sin to be worse, and it makes duty to be better.

To know God, in whom is both Verum & Bonum, truth and goodness, is the masterpiece of wisdom. (1 Chronicles 28:9) And you Solomon my son, know the God of your father. And this knowledge of God is through Christ.

Crowns are signs of greatest honor, but these crowns the angels lay at the Lord's feet, to show that they ascribe the glory of all they do to him. 4. We do God's will as it is done in Heaven by the angels, when we do it willingly, sine murmuratione: The angels love to be employe…

For the visible pledge of God's presence and his worship. God's throne, as we have showed, was represented by the ark, mercy-seat, and cherubims, in the most holy place; whereon the sanctuary itself was his footstool (1 Chronicles 28:2; Psalm 99:5; Psalm 132:7). So it is applied…

The Septuagint read, (Deuteronomy 31:28) [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], Gather to me all the Elders. The like you may find, (1 Kings 8:1; 1 Chronicles 28:1). I shall next put him in mind that the Septuagint sometime turn Kahal by [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], as (Proverbs 26:26), His w…

Let such take heed that God cast not them off for ever. (1 Chronicles 28:9) (it is a speech of David to his son Solomon) If you seek Him, He will be found of you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off for ever: How much more if you do cast off the thing that is good. Oh!…

See (Psalm 119:27; Jeremiah 22:15, 16; John 17:8; 1 John 1:3, 4, and 4:7). Now that knowledge of Himself and of His will which God requires is pleasing to God (1 Chronicles 28:9; Hosea 6:6). And he who is furnished with it is pleasing and acceptable to Him (Jeremiah 24:7).

Their duty in the entrance of their youth is, according to their gifts and diversity of them, to prepare them to some profitable calling in the Church, by applying them to it, beating into them the gifts and conscientious use of the gifts which is required. [1 Chronicles 28:9. T…

Of the actions of the body orderly and reverently used, are bowing of our bodies (Isaiah 45:23). Reverent attention declared sometimes by rising up (Genesis 49:33; 1 Chronicles 28:2; Numbers 23:22; 2 Kings 23:2; 2 Chronicles 34:31; Nehemiah 8:6). Also lifting up of the hands and…

“The Lord has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne,” (Psalm 132:11.) Solomon was, beyond controversy, the type of this eternal King who was promised to David; nor can the promise be applied to Christ, except i…

But this answers not to the description given afterwards of them in Ezekiel, much less with the same appellation given to the winds and clouds (Psalms 18:10). The word has a great affinity with [in non-Latin alphabet] a chariot; so are the angels of God called his chariots (Psal…

David had the pattern of all things pertaining to the temple showed him, even in like manner as Moses had the pattern of the tabernacle: and Solomon built the temple according to that pattern which he had from his father David, which he received from God. 1 Chronicles 28:11, 12.…

There may be some assent, such as may engage to profession, and partial reformation, but the whole heart is not subdued to God. Then do we believe with the whole heart, when the heart is warmed with the things we know and assent to, when there is a full and free consent to take…

When we delight in God and find full complacency in him as our all-sufficient portion, without reserving any part of our hearts for other things. So for obedience, 1 Chronicles 28:9: And you Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and wit…

1. God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: Father, as a lawgiver; Son, as a Redeemer, and head of the renewed estate; Holy Ghost, as our Sanctifier. 1. God the Father, who in the mystery of redemption is represented as our lawgiver, and Sovereign Lord; and will be not only known and w…

Every one of us in person does actually break with God before he breaks with us (2 Chronicles 15:2): If you forsake him, he will forsake you. (1 Chronicles 28:9): David tells Solomon, If you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever; he will not acknowledge you. Take this right…

Light breeds an awe of God, and minds us of our duty upon all occasions. (1 Chronicles 28:9) And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing [reconstructed: mind]. First know him, and then serve him.

What says the Apostle, in (1 Thessalonians 2:11), We charged every one of you, as a father his children. We should call aside our young people, and lay upon them, the charge of David, in (1 Chronicles 28:9), My son, know you the God of your Father, and serve Him with a perfect h…

The very chatterings of our infants are pleasant to us; the praises and the devotions of young persons are so to our Father which is in Heaven; and he asks for them with ungainsayable importunities. 'Twas said to a young man in 1 Chronicles 28:9, If you seek the Lord, He will be…

Genesis 18:19: I know that Abraham will command his children, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. 1 Chronicles 28:9: And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a perfect heart. Surely Abraham and David did not take God's name in vain.

2. Consider it has ever been the Saints practice to instruct and teach their children the way of God. David we finde dropping instruction into his sonne Solomon, 1 Chronicles 28:9. Know you the God of your Father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing minde.

(1) We take no heed to the imaginations, and are not grieved for the constitution of the heart, for actual sins make original sin to swell, as two floods running into one makes a huge river. (2) We take not heed to the young births of the heart; with the concurrence of the mind,…

2. Delight in Religion crowns all our services. Therefore David counsels his son Solomon, not only to serve God, but to serve him with a willing mind, 1 Chronicles 28.9. Delight in duty is better than duty itself; as it is worse for a man to delight in sin, than to commit it, be…

The first, is knowledge of God; the second, the worship of God. These two are notably described by David, in his last will and Testament, wherein he commends to Solomon his son before all other things, the care and love of Religion and piety; the sum whereof, he reduces to these…

Q. 5. What is that holiness which is required of us? That (a) universal sincere obedience to the whole will of God, (b) in our hearts, minds, wills, and actions, (c) whereby we are in some measure made conformable to Christ our head. (a) Psalm 119:9; 1 Samuel 15:22; John 14:15;…

Q. 5. What is that holiness which is required of us? A. That (a) universal sincere obedience to the whole will of God, (b) in our hearts, minds, wills, and actions, (c) whereby we are in some measure made conformable to Christ our head. (a) Psalm 119. 9. 1 Samuel 15. 22. John 14…

They are no better shelter, nor will afford any greater security and safeguard to the soul than any other vain hiding place; and therefore, they that trust in them trust in falsehood; a lie is that which is spoken to deceive the creature: thus when men speak of their privileges,…

1. Protestants lay down this as the [in non-Latin alphabet], as the very beginning and first principle of their confidence and confession, that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, as the Holy Ghost teaches them (2 Timothy 3:16). That is, that the books of the Old and N…

If God be infinite by his Omnipresency, then see the greatness and immenseness of the divine majesty — What a great God do we serve? (1 Chronicles 29:11). Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, and the glory, and the majesty, and you are exalted as head above all. Well may the Scriptu…

Whatever we receive from God is a gift. We can give nothing to God but what he has given us (1 Chronicles 29:14). All things come of you, and of your own have we given you.

Thus did all Gods Saints in old time; Jacob, He was less than the least of Gods mercies. But especially there is one memorable example of David, and the Church in his days, 1 Chronicles 29.13.14.15.16. When he had prepared abundantly for the building of the Temple, he prostrated…

The Egyptians' will against the Israelites was strong but his power was weak. Might and power is only in the hand of God, who reigns over all (1 Chronicles 29:12). And God will exert so much of power to bridle the inclinations of nature in the wicked for the good of his people.

Therefore, to make a difference between God's kingdom, power, and glory, and those of earthly kings, it is said, your is the kingdom, &c. that is, God has all these in himself, and from himself, and they from him. [The kingdom] These words (1 Chronicles 29:11) are fully expounde…

Yea, but it's Gods, so much as there is in it, it's bad, and after we have done all we had need come to God as beggars to cry for mercy; those men that have lived the most holy lives that ever men did live in this world, yet wo to them if they have not mercy; if they have not a…

For the better doing of this, is required perfection, sobriety (Matthew 12:37; Matthew 27:5). Perfection is, when the affections in doing, are both strong enough, and also sincere or upright (1 Chronicles 29:9). Strength is, when according as the good or evil is, there lacks no…

The proposition is wanting, the assumption is contained in an axiom copulative, which numbers up the parts; where again as above, the couple is left out, to note our joyful and fervent feeling and melody of the heart, in heaping up praise to God (Ephesians 5:18-19; Colossians 3:…

For the prophet had shown at large the passion and sufferings of Christ (Isaiah 53), and hereupon he says, Rejoice you barren. The Israelites were commanded to feast and to be merry before the Lord (Leviticus 23:40; 1 Chronicles 29:32), that is, before the Lord's Ark, which was…

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable (v. 13. v. 16; Genesis 15:5). These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and we…

3. The scope likewise confirms this, Christ being by his way to his people commendable above all, and this being a special commendation of his, that all his works are perfect, and all his ways are judgment (Deuteronomy 32:4). As also the property attributed to his legs, and from…

Be not high minded, but fear, be jealous over yourselves with godly jealousy, rejoice with trembling, cast not off fear, nor restrain prayer before God, keep conscience tender, eyes open and hearts resolved for God. Pray over David's prayer for the continued settlement of those…

The Spirit of God moved him to commit those things to writing, chiefly for that reason, because they pointed to Christ, and the times of the gospel; and, as was said before, this was the main business of all that succession of prophets, that began in Samuel, to foreshow those ti…

It has been set down as an axiom of good experience, that all things religiously taken in hand, are prosperously ended (Psalm 1:3); because whether men in the end have that which religion did allow them to desire, or that which it teaches them contentedly to suffer, they are, in…

But whether this may warrant none to pray, while they first prepare themselves to pray, before they pray, by praying, and so that prayer which is preparatory must be prepared by another preparatory prayer; and so, without end, spiritual preparations must in infinitum go on befor…

When you have got any good desires, or good purposes, at any time, remember that the being of them comes from God. Hence it comes to pass, that good purposes oftentimes do come to nothing, and like sparks go out again; because we remember not that they are from God; we think tha…

A gracious heart has such a sense of God's worth and excellency, that he thinks he can never speak honorably enough of it. See how David enlarges himself very suitably to what is spoken here (1 Chronicles 29:10-13). And David said, Blessed be you, Lord God, for ever and ever: yo…

The people of God are plentifully provided for. Your tables are well furnished, backs well clothed, it is God which gives you richly to enjoy them, and he must be acknowledged; as David does, (1 Chronicles 29:14) For all things come of you, and of your own have we given you. The…

O that poor worms should come and put the crown upon God's head! And that he will count any thing we can do to be a glory to himself (1 Chronicles 29:14). But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort?

First, there is a universal kingdom over all things; over angels, and devils; over men elect, and reprobate; over beasts, and living creatures; and over inanimate things, sun, moon, and stars. This is spoken of (1 Chronicles 29:11): Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exal…

It is said of Christ (Colossians 2:9), In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily: fullness of the [reconstructed: Godhead] — oh wonderful! The people wondered at that mass of money provided by David to build God a house (1 Chronicles 29:7-8). Oh! but the unsearchable…

God dwelt symbolically by outward representations in the temple; but here he dwells bodily. When David had provided such a mass of money (1 Chronicles 29:7-9), they fell a wondering: O! But when the soul comes to view the unsearchable riches of grace in Christ Jesus, then it may…

Rather metaphorically for the whole course of his life, whether spent in the palace, or in the wilderness, in whatever place he was, he was still in the house of his pilgrimage: so he accounted his best and his worst condition, compare verse 19. I am a stranger in the earth, and…

Yes, this is that which seasons and makes all other things comfortable, when we have them and the love of God with them. This man of God had a kingdom, and a great deal of wealth, he was a victorious king, as we may see by his offering (1 Chronicles 29), what cart-loads of gold…

If we enjoy them as our own, by an original right exclusive to God, we are usurpers but not just possessors; we have indeed a subordinate right to prevent the encroachment of our fellow creatures, but that is but such a right as a man has in a trust, or a servant to his working…

Wherewith can we oblige God? We have nothing to give to him, but what is his own already, and was first received from him, all things come of you, and of your own have we given you (1 Chronicles 29:14). We pay the great governor of the world out of his own exchequer.

This is the thing that God delights in, and looks after. 1 Chronicles 29:17: I know also my God that you test the heart, and take pleasure in uprightness. He can discern integrity, and prefers it before all manner of service and pomp in worship that is yielded to him.

As vapors drawn up by the Sun, at night fall down again in a dew. The people were upon a high point of willingness, mighty forward and ready to offer whole cartloads of gold and silver (1 Chronicles 29:18), what says David? O Lord God, keep this forever in the imagination of the…

When God comes to try a good man, He finds the heart of the man to be right before Him. The good man may say with him in (1 Chronicles 29:17), O my God, I know that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness; as for me, in the uprightness of my heart have I offered. Ind…

Alas, poor soul, no longer than he is held up by the same hand, that impowered him at first. He has soon wrought out the strength received, and therefore to maintain the tenure of a holy course. there must be renewing strength from heaven every moment, which David knew, and ther…

It is beyond all admiration, to create so [reconstructed: rare] a piece as the sun out of nothing, and a beautiful lily out of mire and dirt, out of common clay to bring forth sapphires, carbuncles, and in lieu of a stony heart (for grace is not educed out of the potency of any…

And what you give to another, it was out of his dominion, but all things are in his dominion, for who spoiled him of what he had? David blessed the Lord, when the people gave for the Temple, excusing himself and the people, that they took on them to give to the great Lord-giver:…

As it is God that gives the power to get riches (Deuteronomy 8:18), so it is he who gives knowledge, skill, wisdom, a heart seasoned with his fear, and cheered with his favor, whereby we may with quiet contentment, and sweet tranquility, make use of those blessings which are rea…

Shall I serve the Lord (says David) of what cost me nothing? And when he had prepared many millions for the building of the temple, yet he accounted it a small thing for his sake whom he loved (1 Chronicles 29:3). He gave it out of his poverty, as he speaks; this is love, to kee…

And let another man do many things very weakly, and yet has some care of his heart, God knows how to pardon it; though Asa had many failings (2 Chronicles 15:17), yet his spirit was upright with God all his days, and that covered a multitude of failings that elsewhere were in hi…

But afterward he rises up to some sense, then he falls to prayer (verse 12), then he begins to look up, and can pray to God to guide him by his counsel, and then receive him to glory; and then it is good for him to draw near to God: but he rises not up to matter of conference wi…