2 Chronicles 17

He indeed is rich in grace whose graces are not hindered by his riches. There are but few Jehoshaphats in the world, of whom it is said (2 Chronicles 17:5-6): 'He had silver and gold in abundance, and his heart was lifted up in the way of God's commands.' Will not this keep your…

In the Hebrew: his great ones; or, his bowmen (because they are many, or because the great ones did fight afar off) have besieged me. So (2 Chronicles 17:9), (1 Samuel 7:16): Samuel went in a circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh. And (Joshua 6:3): You shall besiege Jericho.

It argues that you are not seriously through with God, if you should break with him after some profession of his name; now your motion should be more earnest, more strong towards him. I speak this, because we are so apt to cast off our first faith (1 Timothy 5:12), and to lose o…

John Baptist to Herod (Matthew 14:4): It is not lawful for you to have her. Jehu to Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:2): Should you help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore is wrath upon you from before the Lord.

God has given your Ladyship a sound judgment, and a tender conscience, both which are jewels of great price. I may say of you, as it is said of Jehoshaphat, his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord (2 Chronicles 17:12). Yet I have observed, the more you have been lifted u…

And when do we know that it is not the old heart? Ans. 1 Propos. As physically, so also morally, the heart is the man, the good heart, the good man, the evil heart, the evil man, and God weighs men by the weight, not of the tongue, of the hands of the outward man, but by the wei…