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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…