1 Chronicles 17

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…