Amos 7

One is immediate revelation; the other, is ordinary instruction in schools by the means and ministry of man. The like says Amos, I was neither Prophet, nor son of a Prophet, but the Lord sent me to prophesy to Israel (Amos 7:14). The third point is that they which are to be teac…

How strangely are things wheeled about by Providence! not what we, or our Parents, but what God designed shall take place. Amos was very meanly employed at first, but God designed him for a more honourable and comfortable Calling, Amos 7. 14, 15. David followed the Ewes, and lik…

4. They are violent for their covetous lusts. Covetousness is the soul's dropsy (Amos 7:2): Who pant after the dust of the earth. They compass sea and land to make money their proselyte.

Hence the prophet Amos, speaking of his being called to the prophetical office, says, that he was one that had not been educated in the schools of the prophets, and was not one of the sons of the prophets. Amos 7:14-15. But Amos's taking notice of it as remarkable, that he shoul…

The reasons are these. 1. Because this will suit best with the quiet and happy estate of those times, God will usher in the glorious and everlasting estate, by some preparative degrees, the latter times are more blessed times, former things are to be done away: that is, the form…

How mad a thing is it then, for any man to be lifted up in pride, upon such a vanity as this is; to build so lofty and over-jetting Roof upon such a feeble, tottering Foundation? We have seen Meadows full of such curio[•]s flowers, mown down and withered, men of great Estates im…

The Devil knows what an advantage it is to religion, to have the countenance of princes; and on the other side, how jealous they are of their authority and prerogative, and therefore by his instruments seeks to prejudice and prepossess them against it, and those that profess it…

The Lord looks not after the mean occasions of men upon earth, finds himself employment in the affairs of heaven; it matters not what the desert of our sins be, we shall never feel what they do deserve. So those rulers (Amos 7) they put away the evil day far from them, and then…

If yet the Lord bring home wholesome counsels and directions even to their doors, sends out the light of his truth by the ministry of his faithful servants, to shine in their faces, and the sound thereof to beat in his ears, they are loath to hear of the ear, loath to show their…

To show you that when God has called me to a place, he has given me some gifts fit for that place, especially, if the place be suitable and fitted to me and my best gifts; for God would not have a man to receive five talents, and gain but two, he would have his best gifts improv…