2 Chronicles 26

Not our obedience, but Christ's merits, procure acceptance; we must in every part of worship tender up Christ to God in the arms of our faith. Unless we serve God thus, in hope and confidence of Christ's merits, we do rather provoke God than please him: as when King Uzziah would…

We must carry the lamb Christ in the arms of our faith, and so we prevail in prayer. When Uzziah would offer incense without a priest, God was angry and struck him with leprosy (2 Chronicles 26:16). When we do not pray in Christ's name, in the hope of his mediation, we offer up…

Albeit the case may so fall out, that those of another Church, professing the same religion with us, may be reproved, and censured: indeed one Church may admonish another; for they being members one of another, are to procure the good one of another, as Paul teaches by the simil…

Was not this to usurp upon the priests' office? Was it not this for which King Uzziah was reprehended and told by the priests, "It does not belong to you, to burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron;" and was he not smitten with leprosy for doing of it (2…

God has appointed a sovereign prince to be Custos utriusque Tabulae, a guardian of both tables of his law; and has put the sword into his hands, not only to be an avenger in cases of injury done by man to man, but to be an avenger in case of the violation of those laws which imm…

"Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel," as we find him to be 1 Kings 16:1, 7. And then it was further continued by the prophet Isaiah: 2 Chronic…

It is best with us many times when we are weakest (2 Corinthians 12:10): When I am weak, then am I strong. Worst when strongest (2 Chronicles 26:16): When he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his own destruction. Lot chose Sodom, a fair and pleasant situation, but you know…

When you speak of two Lords, one of them is always Christ. It was a proud distemper in Uzziah, that he himself went into the Temple of the Lord, to burn incense upon the altar of incense (2 Chronicles 26:16). Why?