1 Samuel 9

As when Jacob and Laban made a covenant, it is said Jacob sacrificed beasts and called his brethren to eat bread (Genesis 31:54), which words must not be understood of killing for sacrifice but of killing for a feast. Again, when Saul sought his father's asses and asked for the…

And no marvel: for we take from the Church, as fast as they gave to it. In old time they were used to say, What shall we give the man of God (1 Samuel 9)? but now with the sacrilegious church-robbers, they say, Come, and let us take the houses of God in possession (Psalm 83:12).…

Some have had special, personal, and peculiar discoveries of it made to them. So had Samuel about the choice of the person whom he should anoint King, 1 Samuel 9:15 And so had David, 1 Samuel 23. 2, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12. where you find upon his enquiry of God (likely by the Vrim and…

The time of mercy was now fully come; the Decree was now ready to bring forth that mercy, with which it had gone big from Eternity, and its gracious design must be executed by the hand of Providence, so far as concerned the external means and instruments: and how aptly did it ca…

OBSERVATION. WHen Cattel are strayed away from your fields; you use all care and diligence to recover them again, tracing their footsteps, crying them in Market-Towns, sending your servants abroad, and inquiring your selves of all that you think can give news of them. What care…

How can the Lord say, blessed be Egypt, and though the whole seed be visibly in covenant, old and young, yet it follows not that therefore every promise that is absolute, that is, that of a new heart, is made to all and every one within the visible covenant: for it is promised (…

First, what is meant by thoughts, especially as they are the intended subject of this discourse, which in so vast an argument I must necessarily set limits to: 1. By thoughts, the Scriptures do comprehend all the internal acts of the mind of man, of what faculty soever, all thos…

To set the heart on the creature is to set a diamond in lead — none are so mad as to keep their jewels in a cellar, and their coals in a closet; and yet such is the profaneness of wicked men to keep God in their lips only, and Mammon in their hearts, to make the earth their trea…