2 Chronicles 30

When a child of God looks over his best duties, he sees so much sin cleaving to them, that he is even confounded: Lord, he says, there is more sulphur than incense in my prayers; but for your comfort, if God be your Father, he will crown those duties which you yourselves censure…

(1.) We must solemnly prepare ourselves before we come: We must not rush upon the ordinance rudely and irreverently, but come in due order. There was a great deal of preparation to the Passover; (2 Chronicles 30:18-19) and the Sacrament comes in the room of it. Quest. Wherein do…

We see nothing to the contrary but they may. Whereto may be added that in (2 Chronicles 30) where the people that prepared their hearts to seek God, are accepted of God in the Passeover, though they were not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary: yet whatever i…

But in this also the Holy Ghost has set examples before the ministers of the Gospel. I read (2 Chronicles 30:15): The Priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt-offerings into the House of the Lord. They thought it not enough to be…

It is not to be lippenning to the man's good hopes, to his good prayers, or to his good meaning, but to Christ's satisfaction, and God's promise; by faith, when rightly exercised, the sinner holls and hides himself in Christ, till (to speak so) a bit of the man cannot be seen; a…

For there are many treatises on this part of our present subject, extant in our own language, and in the hands of those who esteem themselves concerned in these things. With some they meet indeed with no other entertainment, than the posts did that were sent by Hezekiah through…

So is [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], used by our Apostle (Romans 1:27), excellently expressed by Solomon (Proverbs 1:31): Sinners shall eat of the fruit of their own ways, and be filled with their own devises. Such rewards we have recorded: Numbers 15:30; 1 Samuel 6:6; 1 Kings 13:…

See 2 Chronicles 35:10, 11. As also it is said expresly, that they slew the Paschal Lamb (2 Chronicles 30). And to this killing of the Bullock, or Kid, or Lamb, answered the wringing off of the head of the Bird, if the Burnt Offering were of Fowls, which is expresly said to be d…

And to this head belong all the arguments that divines make use of to prove the perfection of the Scripture, against the New Talmudists in Christianity. 5. God every where sends his people to the Written Law of Moses, for the rule of their obedience, no where to any Kabal (Deute…

So that the Holy Ghost therein intimates such an abstaining as was preparatory to solemn duties, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, extraordinary duties call for extraordinary preparations. These outward preparations were so necessary, that when the people faile…

It is plainly implied in Psalm 50 that it was the Manner in Israel vocally to own God's Covenant, or to take it into their Mouths, before they sealed that Covenant in their Sacrifices See verse 16 taken with the preceding Part of the Psalm from verse 5. And that they did it befo…

So Jehoshaphat being instructed in the ways of God, sent princes and priests to teach it in all the cities and towns of Judah (2 Chronicles 17:8, 9, 10). As also did Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 30:6, 7, 8). Let this then be our first position.

I answer: 1. It is your duty to engage and consent to give up yourselves to God's service whatever comes of it (2 Chronicles 30:8): Yield yourselves to the Lord. In the Hebrew it is strike hands with him in his holy covenant (Romans 12:1): I beseech you present yourselves, etc.

Many think God watches occasions to destroy them, or at least to molest and trouble them; no, he passes by many weaknesses, or else what would become of the best of his children, pardons many sins, where the heart is sincere. 2 Chronicles 30:18-19. The good Lord pardon every one…

Many of Israel that came to the Passover in Hezekiah's time in their uncleanness, yet they found mercy with the Lord. But it was because the ordinance and duty was of God, the failing was only in the manner of preparation to it (2 Chronicles 30:18, 19, 20). But if Micah set up a…

Bind your selves to the service of God by a covenant never to be forgotten. It was the good counsel of Hezekiah, in 2 Chronicles 30:8, 'Yield yourselves to the Lord.' In the Hebrew original 'tis, 'Give the hand to the Lord.'

If your soul be beaten to [illegible] with this oppression of your distempers (for so this brokenness of heart was opened before) then as it is with the hardest flints, when they are broken to dust, they are easily [illegible], and give way to take the impression of the hand, or…

And they were all moved to this, because they knew their comfortable abode in those places came not by their own endeavor, but from the blessing of God. When the good king Hezekiah kept the Passover in Jerusalem, his principal care was, that the priests and all the people might…

2 Chronicles 30:18-20. For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves; yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it was written, but Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, the good Lord pardon every one. That p…

1 1 John 2. 27. The anointing teaches you all things; that is, all things essential to salvation. A godly man has the good knowledge of the Lord, 2 Chronicles 30. 22. he has sound wisdom, Proverbs 3. 21.

Deuteronomy 4:31. The Lord your God is a merciful God. 2 Chronicles 30:9. The Lord your God is gracious and merciful. Nehemiah 9:17. Ready to pardon, gracious and merciful.

The object or matter Circa quam of our good works, are First, the worship of God, and things subservient and conducive to it; as maintaining poor scholars in the nurseries of the ministry, and schools of the prophets; comforting and encouraging the able and faithful ministers of…

1 The preventing of some great mischief and evil (2 Corinthians 12:7). 2 The purging out of some festering, poisonous sin (2 Chronicles 30:12, Luke 5:17). 3 The upholding and keeping us safe and steadfast in the right way (Hebrews 12:10-11).

Thus we read, that many of the Jews, in the days of Hezekias, came to Jerusalem, and did eat the Passover, which had not cleansed themselves, according to that which was written in the Law. And yet, for those among them, that had prepared their whole hearts, to seek the Lord, th…

The first act of faith is that whereby a man having been formerly reduced to extremities and impossibilities within himself, looks upon God as omnipotent, and so able to save; as merciful, and in Christ reconcilable, and so likely to save if he is sought to. Hereupon grows a sec…