Ezekiel 1

Whoever brings an affliction, God sends it: the consideration of this would make us say, Your will be done; what God does he sees a reason for. We read of a wheel within a wheel (Ezekiel 1:15): the outward wheel which turns all, is providence; the wheel within this wheel, is God…

He hath a special super-intendency over the Affairs of his Church; God hath more care of his Church than we can. We read in Ezekiels Vision, of a wheel within a wheel, Ezek. 1. 16. Gods Decree is the inner wheel that turns all the outward wheels of Providence; the Church never w…

They had not a full dispensation of his glory, but only a glimpse of it, and that under a cloud and revealed in mercy; yet they were sore afraid. Upon any visions and apparitions of the divine Majesty, God's servants fell to the earth — (Ezekiel 1:28) when I saw the appearance o…

Bow your Heavens O Lord, and come down. 2 Sam. 22. 10. Ezek. 1. 1. The Heavens were opened and I saw the Visions of God.

The dispensation of all our comforts and mercies, is by his direction and appointment. It's true, the Angels are employed in the kingdom of Providence, they move the wheels, (i. e.) are instrumental in all the revolutions in this lower world; but still they receive directions an…

There is a sweet harmony betwixt them in their distinct workings. They all meet in that one blessed issue which God has by the counsel of his Will directed them to, Ephesians 1:11 Romans 8:28 Hence it is, that the Spirit is said to be in, and order the motions of the wheels of P…

The hand of God in Scripture signifies, first the purpose of God, as that, Acts 4:28, They have done whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done, that is, whatever according to your purpose, you did determine. 2. The hand of God signifies the Spirit of God,…

It's true, this, and some other Scriptures, were of old restrained by the Jews, from the younger sort, that none should read them, but these who were at thirty years of age: Origen marks four pieces of holy Scripture, thus restrained by them: The history of the creation, Genesis…

So that according to the degree of grace received, he has a constant uniform frame and tenor of spirit, and holds one straight, direct, and even course towards heaven. In all this suitable to the motion of the wheels in the Prophet Ezekiel's Vision (Ezekiel 1:17): when they went…

When God's Spirit blows upon us, now we go full sail to Heaven. When the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels, then they moved (Ezekiel 1:21). The wheels of our endeavor move apace, when the Spirit of God is in these wheels.

Christ appeared to each of these prophets in the form of that nature which he was afterwards to take upon him. The prophet Ezekiel gives an account of his thus appearing to him repeatedly, as Ezekiel 1:26: "And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the likeness of a…

So was Asaph, Psalm 73.▪ and Habbakkuk, Chap. 1. 3. These Wheels of Providence are dreadful for their height, Ezekiel 1:18. There be deep Mysteries of Providence, as well as of Faith. It may be said of some of them, as of Paul's Epistles, That they are hard to be understood.

Titus 3:14: Let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary use. We read the angels had wings, and hands under their wings (Ezekiel 1:8) — emblematic of the truth that Christians must not only have the wings of faith to fly, but hands under their wings to work the works…

And though it may be understood in verse 23 of that chapter to signify an overcoming spiritual glory, as the principal thing there intended, such as no soul dwelling in flesh could behold without rending the veil and breaking all to pieces; yet, even there also, may such a degre…

God's providence administers all things here below in perpetual vicissitudes. His hand turns them about like so many wheels — to which they are compared (Ezekiel 1) — the same part is now uppermost, and anon lowermost; now lifted up in the air, and by and by grated through the m…