Amos 4

He knows the most profound, abstruse secrets (Daniel 2:28). He knows the thoughts, which are the most intricate, subtle things (Amos 4:13). He declares to man what is his thought.

God is an all-seeing Spirit, and thoughts speak louder in his ears than words do in ours. Amos 4:13. He declares to man what is his thought.

And let them know it, whoever they be that go forward in their sins, that God the creator whenever he will, can open hell to devour them: and that he can show himself as mighty in his judgment to men's destruction, as he was mighty in the beginning in giving us a being when we w…

Whereas he threatens them afterward with leanness, he does it to tax their insolence: as on the contrary the Prophets scorn and reproach them for being become fat. For their prosperity made them proud, being puffed up with the fruitfulness of their country, even as fat horses ov…

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When the Providences of God are sad, and afflictive either upon the Church in general, or your families and persons in particular, then it is seasonable for you to exercise godly sorrow and humility of spirit: for in that day, and by those Providences God does call to it, Isaiah…

Your prayers are to be suitable to your conditions: sometimes we are called to praise, sometimes to humiliation. In the way of his Judgements you are to wait for him, Isaiah 26:8 to prepare to meet him, Zeph. 2. 1, 2. Amos 4:12 Now your business is, to turn away his anger which…

As it is that which puts one of the greatest aggravations upon the sinfulness of men, that they will hold fast their sins in the midst of judgments. The Prophet Amos with much elegance of speech and vehemence of spirit urges this against the Jews (Amos 4). I have given you clean…

Secondly, God does it by the especial Interposition of some such property of his nature, as is suited to give credit and confirmation to the word spoken; as of his holiness, Psalmm 89:35. I have sworn by my holiness: So also Amos 4:2. Sometime by his life; As I live, says the Lo…

But if you will not obey me, I will make your heaven as yron, and your earth as brasse. Amos 4. 7. I have with-held the raine from you, and caused it to raine upon one citie, and not upon another; one peete was rained upon, and that which was not rained upon, withered.

5. The famine is a dreadful judgment, whereby God speaks sometime to a people very terribly; when God stretches upon a place the lines of confusion, and the stones of emptiness; as (Isaiah 34:11). When God sends cleanness of teeth into cities; as (Amos 4:6). When God shoots into…

"Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna." So as to telling man's thoughts: Amos 4:13. "Lo, he that—declareth unto man what is his thought—the Lord, the God of hosts is his name."

That's the first. And then, second, the rain falls by divine direction and appointment; He causes it to rain upon one city and not upon another (Amos 4:7). You shall often see a cloud dissolve and spend itself upon one place, when there is not a drop within a few miles of it.

Men sin against their purposes and promises, vows, and protestations made at sea or land, on sick-beds, or any times of danger, and return like the dog to the vomit: they compound with God in time of fear and danger, but put him off with nothing, when the danger is (the more, ye…

So likewise it shall be with you, when Christ comes, everlasting happiness and salvation comes with him; and therefore if you do not make preparation for him, you refuse salvation and happiness that is offered to your souls by him. In (Amos 4:12), when the Lord had sent many pla…

14. And upon this account there is required a deadening of our hearts to shipping and trading with diverse mighty nations, as we see in the case of Tyre (Ezekiel 27), of Babylon (Revelation 18:11-13; Jeremiah 51). So are we to be mortified to fair houses (Isaiah 5:8), stately ci…

When shall we dissolve into tears if not now? Gods judgements are so proper a means to work Repentance, that the Lord wonders at it, and makes it his complaint, that his severity did not break men off from their sins, (Amos 4:7). I have with-holden the Rain from you, verse 9.

This text speaks of such persons as hold the foundation of Christianity, but yet build upon it such doctrines and practices, as were no more able to endure the trial, than hay, wood, or stubble can endure the fire. Such a person hereby brings himself into danger, and though the…