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.

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…

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…