2 Chronicles 35

They are holy, and disallow all carnal enterprises, and would withstand the execution of them: will you constrain them to forsake you? You know how it sped with Josiah, when he would not turn his face, but go out without the defence of God and his angels (see 2 Chronicles 35:22)…

Now this should the more prevail with us, because many of God's people have failed after some eminent service performed for God. Josiah after he had prepared the temple, fell into that rash attempt against Pharaoh Necho which cost him his life (2 Chronicles 35:20): After all thi…

3. The Lamb being provided was to be killed, and it was directed that the whole Assembly of the Congregation of Israel should kill it, v. 6, that is, every one for himself and family. But after the giving of the Law, and the erection of a Priesthood in the Church, this work, as…

And (Jeremiah 9:20): Teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation; (you see it was an art taught among them,) for death is come up into our windows, etc. In (2 Chronicles 35:25) we have a record to the same effect, concerning the lamentation for Josiah: A…

If he shall commit a sin upon that confidence of his own righteousness. Josiah's breach with God was after the preparing of the Temple (2 Chronicles 35:20); even God's children take the more carnal liberty because of their duties. 2nd Use is Trial.

And it may be a sin both in God's people and in others, not to hearken to it. Pharaoh Necho (though neither Israelite nor Proselyte) yet by his Ambassadors did publicly declare the counsel of God to Josiah: and it was a dangerous sin in Josiah, that he did not hearken to the wor…

First, (Zechariah 12:10) They shall mourn for him, as the mother mourns for her only son, and for her firstborn: the mourning of a tenderhearted mother for her son, her firstborn, and for her only son, he adds all degrees of grief: if she had possessed many, she might more easil…

It is true, the ministers of Christ are the servants of his church. The Levites and priests were so — they served the Lord, and his people Israel (2 Chronicles 35:3). The Apostles themselves were so: our selves your servants for Jesus' sake (2 Corinthians 4:5).

Now therefore for that, that was a mourning which was caused by the greatest loss that could befall any Commonwealth, it was for the death of good Josiah, a better prince than whom the earth never bore, whose loss therefore was the more grievous, because in his loss the wise hea…