2 Kings 13

2. Consideration: How it will trouble you if you should perish, to think you came short of Heaven for want of a little more pains. The Prophet Elisha bid the King of Israel smite the ground six times, and he smote but three times and stayed (2 Kings 13:19), and he lost many vict…

For, the welfare and prosperity, the certainty and security of it and her, is not in our policy, might, munition, ships, not in the strength of our navy, nor in the power of our armor, nor in the chivalry of our people, nor in the wisdom of our Council (though for all these we a…

Here we see, what is the charge of the ministers of the word, namely, to sustain and to uphold the Church, by doctrine, prayer, counsel, good life. Elisha is called of Joash, The chariots and horsemen of Israel (2 Kings 13:4). And the Church of God upon earth, is called the Pill…

I gave Christ's poor good words; I did bid them be warmed, but I should have clothed and fed them, and for want of a little more violence I have lost the Kingdom. The prophet bade the King of Israel smite upon the ground, (2 Kings 13:18). And he struck three times, and [reconstr…

And if these things be seen, as real and certain, they cannot but raise esteem; there is so much in Gods people here, as not only does convince a gracious heart, but sometimes will convince one that has but natural principles of their excellency. Some men and women, that do some…

We are straightned here in our spirits, in our desires; if we could enlarge our desires in a spiritual way, it would hereafter adde much to our glory; our desires are not only straighter then that we shall have, but the straightness of our desires here hinders much the capacity…

When God moves, move you; when he stirs, stir you; many a man neglects [reconstructed: the] stirrings of the Spirit of God, and never has the like again, and then on his death bed cries for his old terrors. Oh therefore when the Truth meets you and stirs you, keep [reconstructed…

Faith is a healing grace. We read that when the Israelites were burying a man and cast him for haste into the grave of Elisha, as soon as he was down and touched the dead body of the prophet, he revived and stood upon his feet (2 Kings 13:21). So if a person is dead in sin, yet…

Now the people and Levites, and house of David were never so multiplied in the Jews, after the deliverance from Babylon, and therefore must be extended to the New Testament. And if God establish David's seed forever (Psalm 89:4) and the seed of his people shall possess the gates…