Amos 7

(1.) That it gave to himself sufficient security and warranty to undertake and execute the office whereunto he was called. So did every extraordinary call accompanied with a divine afflatus and inspiration (Amos 7:14, 15). (2.) That it evidenced itself to all that feared God, wh…

But that is not the fire that is here intended. It is devouring, consuming, destroying, such as answers the severity of God's justice to the utmost, as Isaiah 9:5; chapter 30:33; chapter 66:15; Amos 7:4; Matthew 18:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Psalm 11:7; Deuteronomy 32:22. Therefore…

And where God denies his Word to any people, he says, upon them there shall be no Rain (Zechariah 14:17). And hence [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] to drop as the Rain does is an expression for Prophesying or Preaching (Ezekiel 21:2; Amos 7:16), the showers whereof are sometimes mor…

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…

The only way therefore whereby they were proved to be prophets was by the Word itself which they delivered and wrote; and thereon depended the evidence and certainty of their being divinely inspired. See (Amos 7:14, 15, 16; Jeremiah 23:25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31). And setting as…

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…

Nothing can excuse any from going on his message, who can perfect his praise, out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings. This the Prophet Amos rested upon, when he was questioned, although he were unfit for that heavenly employment, either by education or course of life: I was no…

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…

Q. 4. Does God rule also in and over the sinful actions of wicked men? A. Yes, he willingly (according to his determinate counsel) suffers them to be, for the manifestation of his glory, and by them effects his own righteous ends (2 Samuel 12:11; 2 Samuel 16:10; 1 Kings 11:31; 1…

Q. 4. Does God rule also in and over the sinful actions of wicked men? A. Yes, he willingly (according to his determinate counsel) suffers them to be, for the manifestation of his glory, and by them effects his own righteous ends (2 Samuel 12:11 & 16:10; 1 Kings 11:31 & 22:22; J…

(1.) They are a burden of grief and sorrow to the godly, who hear and fear (Habakkuk 3:16). (2.) Of indignation to the wicked, who cannot endure so much as to hear of them, the very threatening is to them intolerable (Amos 7:10; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Jeremiah 26:8, 9). 3. In some…