2 Chronicles 34

It argues both a wanton palate, and surfeited stomach, to feed on salads and kickshaws rather than wholesome food. 3. If you would have the preaching of the Word effectual, come to it with a tenderness upon your heart (2 Chronicles 34:19). Because your heart was tender.

For instance, so did David in the miscarriage of the Ark of God (1 Chronicles 15:2, 12, 13). And it was zealous Josiah's rule (whom the Spirit of God so commends in Scripture, that none was like before him for his Reformation) (2 Chronicles 34:31). The like example took Nehemiah…

But is there any hope to see the nation of England reformed according to the primitive pattern, founded upon the word of the eternal Truth (Ephesians 2:20)? Yes, first, because there was never a more exact covenant taken in any realm, or nation, since the days of zealous Josiah…

4. Whereas they call them not only Altars, but high Altars, and raise the ground where they stand, going up by steps to them, this is the old heathenish idolatry of the Gentiles, those idolatrous high places so often condemned in the Scripture, being nothing else but high Altars…

Also in the same sense, by a term meaning "carved works," Isaiah 45:20; by a term for "images," Exodus 20:4; 2 Chronicles 33:22. Also by a term meaning "likenesses" or "idols," Isaiah 21:9; and by a term meaning "images," Isaiah 40:19, 20; and by a term meaning "enclosures of al…

Of the actions of the body orderly and reverently used, are bowing of our bodies (Isaiah 45:23). Reverent attention declared sometimes by rising up (Genesis 49:33; 1 Chronicles 28:2; Numbers 23:22; 2 Kings 23:2; 2 Chronicles 34:31; Nehemiah 8:6). Also lifting up of the hands and…

They entered into a Covenant to seek the Lord God of their Fathers with all their Heart and with all their Soul. We have also another remarkable Instance, 2 Kings 23:3 and 2 Chronicles 34:31. Now he who is wholly under the Power of a carnal Mind, which is not subject to the Law…

The charge given to masters in the fourth commandment concerning servants, (you nor your male servant, nor your female servant) proves as much. Josiah is commended for causing his people to stand to the covenant of God (Exodus 20:10; 2 Chronicles 34:32). On this ground if a mast…

It requires 1. The general grace of a soft heart, which must be asked of God, (2 Chronicles 34:27) Because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself, when you heard the words of the Lord against this place. There was an high peace and calm at that time, but a tender hea…

He can and does sometimes [illegible] the soul in the [illegible], as it is commonly conceived he did John the Baptist (Luke 1:44). Many times he begins to tamper and trade with the spirits of his, when they are young and tender, and their years few, drops in some grain of the i…

First sign: tenderness of heart. 2 Chronicles 34:27: Because your heart was tender. A child-like heart is a tender heart; he who before had a flinty heart has now a fleshy heart.

As for that which is said by M. S. pag. 51. that Idolatry and Idolaters were the adaequate object of the coercive power of the Kings of Judah in matters of Religion, and that Idolatry meant not of those who worshiped the true God though in a false manner with the violation of th…

Deuteronomy 17:18: the Law of God is to be for the direction of the King and of the Priests, and Levites. The Book of the Law of the Lord given by Moses (2 Chronicles 34:15, 19, 30, 31, compared with 2 Kings 22:8, 11; 23:2, 3) was that by which Josiah made his reformation both i…

Thirdly, he restored the true worship of God, made a covenant with God to that end, and commanded the people to keep the Passover, and to perform the covenant. Fourthly, he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to the covenant, and made all that were pr…

The First Part. 2 Chronicles 34:32, 33. And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. And caused all that were present in Jerusalem…

Answer. If you have in you a child-like heart, which is, 1. A tender heart (2 Chronicles 34:27). Because your heart was tender.

Hence by way of excellency he calls it the Covenant, the Covenant of the Lord (Jeremiah 2[illegible]:9; Deuteronomy 4:23; Joshua 23:11); My Covenant, says the Lord (Genesis 17:7, 9, 10; Exodus 19:5; Psalm 50:16); His Covenant (Psalm 105:8); He remembered his Covenant forever (Ps…

The men of Nineveh hearing by the prophet they were all to die within forty days, it is said, they believed God (in the work of conviction) and then fell to sackcloth and ashes (in the work of compunction) which did immediately follow. Josiah (2 Chronicles 34:27) in his renewed…

Take example by that grief, and apply it to the Lord Jesus Christ; turn the stream of it into that channel; Did God never afflict you in that kind? Then be the more thankful; and especially for you that are in authority, as ever you desire to die lamented, and much desired, then…

Thirdly, we must labor to be affected with the word. Thus Josiah his heart is said to melt at the reading of the law (2 Chronicles 34:27). And the people rejoiced greatly, because they understood the word which the Levites had taught them (Nehemiah 8:12).

Is it the duty of the Civil Magistrate to take order that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed, all abuses in worship and discipline reformed, and all idolaters, gainsayers, and other obstinate dissenters…

Christs Ordinances put upon a whole City, or a Nation, may more civilize and moralize, but never christianize them; says Mr. Williams, chapter 82. I answer, this argument does utterly condemn Josiahs Reformation as sinfull, for the caused all Judah to stand to the Covenant, as w…

Asa did remove his mother Maachah from being queen, because of an idol which she had made in a grove (1 Kings 15:13). Josiah caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to the covenant (2 Chronicles 34:32), which could not be without either threatening or inf…