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.

Q. How else may it be proved that there is a God? A. The succession of day, and night, and other seasons with the sustentation, and ordering of the creatures and the motions of them, does plainly witness that there is a God (Psalm 19:2-3; Acts 14:17; Amos 4:13 & 5:8). Q. How may…

Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause Rain, or can the Heavens give showers (Jeremiah 14:22). And he exercises his sovereignty in the giving of it (Amos 4:7, 8): I caused it to Rain upon one City, and not to Rain upon another, one piece was rained upon,…

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…

I may have this and be damned; Where are the arguments of his special love? 3. Consider deliverances from imminent dangers: Then the curse began to seize upon you; but God snatched you out of the fire like brands out of the burning (Amos 4:11), or like a debtor that escapes out…

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.

3. His influences are in things small, as in the falling of a Sparrow to the earth; not one hair of the head but it is numbered by him (Luke 21:18; Matthew 10:29, 30, 31). Not a gourd groweth, nor a worm eats it, but at his command (Jonah 4:6, 7; Amos 4:7, 8, 9; Joel 1:1, 2, 3,…

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…

It is a sad word which is spoken in Isaiah 9:17: The Lord shall have no joy in their young men. And again (Amos 4:10): Your young men have [illegible] with the sword. How many young men in New England have in these late years been numbered for the sword?

Sin is high treason against the eternal Majesty. God is holiness itself (Amos 4:2). The Lord God has sworn by his holiness: he never swears by anything less than himself.

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…

This was it that made God's anger to burn so hotly against Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 36:15, 16). This is his very quarrel with them (Amos 4:6), Yet have you not returned to me, says the Lord. 3. That there are fearful threatenings out against the finally impenitent.

We are therefore told what remark the Owner made on his fig-tree, after his so long coming and seeking fruit: he found [illegible], and this is to be made at the foot of every visit that he made: he came in such an Ordinance at such a time; and lookt that there should be fruit u…

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.

Death sometimes gives no warning before it comes. Remember that scripture (Amos 4:11), "I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." And how was that?

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…

The other sort, that through a rebellious will, despise God's corrections, are the worse sort: they provoke God to show himself a God of vengeance, even a consuming fire: for with the perverse, he will show himself perverse. Read what God threatens, (Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28)…

Use 1. To show us how vain a thing it is to go about to deceive God with vain service, while our [illegible] estranged from in; if we had to deal with man like ourselves, we might easily cast a [illegible] before their eyes, and make them believe strange matters, but God who can…

If you cannot endure to sit quietly while you are told of them, how will you endure when God shall do according to the word of his messengers? Let such thoughts as these move you to prepare yourselves, this use God would have these burdens attain (Amos 4:13). Of Dumah] that is,…