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…

Most as to the derivation of the name follow Kimchi; who affirms the letter Caph to be servile and a note of similitude; and the word to signify a youth or a child. Such these images are thought to represent; only they had wings instead of arms, as we now usually paint Angels; f…

View this doctrine at your leisure, preached by God himself, with an inconceivable elegancy, and three whole chapters spent in the sermon (Job 38-40), and by the Psalmist (Psalms 147-148). Some observe that the society of Angels and heavenly creatures is represented (Ezekiel 1)…

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…

And the words themselves have that affinity in signification, which is frequently seen among the Hebrew Roots, differing only in the transposition of one letter. And the description of him who sat above the Cherubims of Providence, Ezek. 1:10. is the same with that of John (Reve…

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Secondly, their several employments also did greatly differ. The work of Angels was immediately to attend the Throne of God, to minister before him, and to give glory to him, and to execute the commands of his Providence in the government of the works of his hands (Psalm 68:17;…

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…

Now the elect Angels are the special messengers, and New Covenant officers, ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14). And the Angels (Ezekiel 1) are acted in all their motions by that Jehovah, whose glory Isaiah saw (Isai…

3. The heart may be turned as streams of a river drawn through this part of the land, or this part (Prov. 21:1), and from nilling to willing, as the Lord thinks fit, according to God's will of precept; this is often the falling of the Church of Ephesus sinfully from their first…

Object. 2 But from where then comes this promiscuous administration of things, which seems to make things run upon wheels, they have no certain course, but are turned upside down: from where comes this to pass, if there be a God that rules heaven and earth? Answ. For answer of t…

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…

The spirit lifted me up, God's Spirit must both infuse grace and excite it. We read of a wheel within a wheel (Ezekiel 1:16). The spirit of God is that inner wheel that must move the wheel of our endeavor.

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…