Esther 7

As good be shut out of heaven, as be shut out of Christ's prayer. Christ pleads for the saints, as Queen Esther did for the Jews, when they should have been destroyed, Let my people be given me at my request (Esther 7:3). When the Devil shows the blackness of their sins, Christ…

The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion (Proverbs 19:12). How did Haman's heart tremble when the king rose up from the banquet in wrath (Esther 7:7). But God's wrath is infinite; all other is but as a spark to a flame: wrath in God is not a passion as in us, but it is an…

The eye of man will restrain from sin, and will not God's eyes much more? (Esther 7:8). Will he force the queen before me, when I stand and look on? Will we sin when our judge looks on.

Position 12. It is dreadful to have mercy witness against one: How sad was it with Haman when the Queen herself accused him (Esther 7:6), so when this queen of mercy shall stand up against a person, and accuse him. It is only mercy that saves a sinner, now how sad to have mercy…

Haman erected a Gallows fifty Cubits high for good Mordecai, and God so ordered it, that himself and his ten Sons were hanged on it. And indeed it was but meet, that he should eat the fruit of that tree which himself had planted, Esther 7:10 Ahitophel plots against David, and gi…

Have we not cause to say of some of our bloody brethren, as Jacob did, Genesis 32:12, when his brother Esau was marching towards him, I fear him (says he) lest he will come and slay me and the mother with the children; loss of life was the thing Jacob feared. And Esther's speech…

2. The madness of our natures is bridled and restrained by thoughts of God (3 John 11): He that does evil has not seen God. Will he force the queen before my face? (Esther 7:8) you will not sport with sin, nor play with the occasions of it, nor dare to venture upon God's restrai…