2 Kings 9

Sin is the Achan that troubles us; the Trojan Horse. 2 Kings 9:22. When Joram saw Jehu, he said, is it peace Jehu? And he answered what peace, so long as the whoredoms of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

The other witness being troubled in conscience, confessed his perjury, and continued so long weeping that he wept himself blind. Jezebel, who suborned two false witnesses against Naboth, she was thrown down out of a window, and the dogs licked her blood (2 Kings 9:33). O tremble…

The same word [in non-Latin alphabet] is given to God, when he takes vengeance on his enemies, (Numbers 31:2; Isaiah 1:24). I will be avenged of my enemies. (2 Kings 9:7). That I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets. So is the word [in non-Latin alphabet] — vengeance…

There be three properties or qualities of life. First, wherever there is life, there is some warmth (2 Kings 9:34). When the Prophet had lain upon the child, and had done so seven times, at length the breath of the child began to wax warm, a sign that life was a restoring, and t…

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for such things come the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Again, hence I gather, that in the prime of the Church in the Apostles' days, when the Church of the New Testament was but in founding, the ministry was in contempt:…

Yet I must say, (3dly,) That so it is come to pass, that many of those who have been really made Partakers of this gracious Work of the Holy Spirit, have been looked on in the World, which knows them not, as mad, Enthusiastick and Fanatical. So the Captains of the Host esteemed…

Henry the Second of France in a great rage against a Protestant Counsellor, committed him to the hands of one of his Nobles to be imprisoned, and that with these words, that he would see him burned with his own eyes: but mark the righteous Providence of God, within a ew days aft…

And truly luch fooles all the Saints are branded for, by the wise world. You know the man and his communication, said Jehu to his companions, asking what that mad fellow came for, who was no other than a Prophet, 2 Kings 9:11. Now this requires courage to despise the shame, whic…

Am I not swayed and moved by self-interest and carnal respects in the ways of religion — the accommodation of some worldly interest, or the getting of a name and reputation for godliness? If so, how apparently do the same symptoms of hypocrisy appear upon my soul which did upon…

If a man sin against God his preserver, who shall then preserve him? If he sin against the God of grace and peace, where shall he find grace? (2 Kings 9:22). You have sinned against the God of grace, and what have you now to do with grace?