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…

4. There are some so vile, that they will scarce come within the circuit of our Christian respect; such as are the open enemies of Christ, and hold things destructive to the foundation of religion (2 John 10). "If any one bring not this doctrine, bid him not God-speed": Vile wre…

It refers according to Interpreters to one of these two times: Either to some special time when they prevailed against their Enemies, or to the time when they made their League with the Assyrians. The time when they prevailed against their Enemies, and so it's thought to refer e…

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…

2. Job, David, and Jeremiah, sadly complaining and challenging God as an enemy, as fiery, and a God burning with hot displeasure, and as lying waters; and that says, that hardly could they but be under a disposition and fretting impatience. Elsha is so jumbled, that the soul is…

3. The Lord's sovereignty decreed not things only, but the connexion of things, as between Bread and Wine used according to the Lord's Institution, and the broken Body and shed blood of Christ: they suit not together of their own nature and essentially; therefore by the interven…

2. No natural necessity, such as that of the Sun to give light, the fire to cast out heat. Nor 3. No brutish necessity void of a discoursing faculty, such as that of the swallow building her nest, the bee making honey; but we must say there was some eminent, holy and spotless ne…

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…

This tells us how sore a judgment of God it is upon a degenerate people, when he takes such away from them. Well might that King let fall such a doleful lamentation as he did, over the bed of a dying Prophet (2 Kings 13:14): My Father! my Father! the chariots of Israel, and the…

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…

Secondly, though they had them, yet they have no calling to use them to this end: for in all the word of God, there is neither commandment to warrant the use, nor promise to assure any man of a blessing upon the use of them. Albeit they would seem to have some warrant, and there…