Ezekiel 11

1. It's clear from these places of Scripture, where there is an express distinction and difference put between the outward ministry of the word, and this inward, powerful, efficacious work of grace on the heart, and wherein the great weight of conversion is laid on this inward w…

Now this he could not do: for Christ out of deliberation, and his Father's eternal counsel, absolutely, gratis, freely died for these; he died not for those, that he foresaw would never fulfill the condition, nunquam positâ conditione, nunquam ponitur conditionatum. 6. Christ bo…

when the Prophets would say, will you destroy even the remnants to utter destruction? And that comes to pass through the ambiguity or doubtfulness of the Hebrew word (Isaiah 10:22; 28:22; Ezekiel 11:13). For seeing the word Chalah may signify as well to end and finish, as to con…

Take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God, but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. And that great work of God in conversion, which consi…

Joel. 2. 28. Ezek. 11. 19. Chap. 36. 27. with other places innumerable.

Besides, it is such an avowed and owned Principle among all that are called Christians, namely, That the Holy Ghost is the Sanctifier of all God's Elect; that as it is not questioned, so it need not in general be further proved; Those who are less experienced in these things may…

The Emperour Aurelian when he was ready to subscribe the Edict for the persecution of the Christians, was suddenly crampt in his Knuckles, that he could not write. Mr. Greenhill in his Exposition upon Ezekiel 11:13 tells his Auditory, that there was one then present in the Congr…

No doubt but this sin of slighting the Gospel is a prime sin, which has provoked God against London, to come forth in such fury; and if London does not repent the sooner, and labor to recover its relish and esteem for the Gospel, and make more evident demonstrations of it, I fea…

Now the Spirit, as unto us, a Spirit of grace, holiness and consolation, is of the purchase of Christ. It is upon the matter, the great promise of the new covenant (Ezekiel 11:19). I will put a new Spirit within you: So also (chapter 36, verse 27; Jeremiah 32:39-40) and in sundr…

The mistakes of others in this business. The Spirit is promised believers for this work (Ezekiel 11:19; chapter 36:26). All that we receive from Christ is by the Spirit.

1. I mean thus, That in the work of conversion God does all. (Ezekiel 11:19) I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and I will give them a heart of flesh. The benefit of a tender sanctified heart is…

Now to act contrary to the will and statutes of God, is to act contrary to God himself; as may be seen by comparing Leviticus 26:14-15 with 26:21, 23, 27, and many other places. David in fulfilling the will of God, was said to be a man after God's own heart (Acts 13:22), and the…

Therefore it is said, God first turns from darkness, and then to light (Acts 26:18). He takes away the heart of stone before he gives a new heart (Ezekiel 11:19). This is the influence of light and virtue into the mind and will, by the receiving of which they may be elevated and…

When the bird has wings given to it, it can fly. Though the soul of itself is unable to do what is good, yet having two wings given to it — the wing of faith and the wing of the Spirit — it now flies swiftly in obedience (Ezekiel 11:1). The heart is lifted heavenward in prayer w…

(2.) The second covenant which promises only blessings is made rather with beasts, that well fed, than with men, contrary to (Psalm 73:25; Isaiah 57:1-3; Psalm 37:37), and it must build some chamber in hell where the fathers were before Christ — a dream unknown to Scripture. The…

(4.) The same Covenant made with Abraham is made with the Corinthians (2 Corinthians 6:16): I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Which is prophesied of the Gentiles under the New Testament in Ezekiel 11:17-20, Ezekiel 34:23-25, Jeremiah 31:31-36, Jeremiah 32:36-40,…

(Verse 39) I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever; for the good of them and of their children after them. See the same order (Ezekiel 11:19-20), though the words lie not in that order there and here. And (Hebrews 8:10) 5. God is not then a God to…

6. (Jeremiah 31:[reconstructed: 38]) Behold the days will come, says the Lord, that the City shall be built to the Lord, etc. There is a promise of spiritual right in Christ made to the blessings of this life, to these that are personal Covenanters; as (Jeremiah 32:41; Ezekiel 1…

Therefore Adam in his pure naturals, as not yet endowed with the Image of God, cannot be the party with whom the Covenant of Works is made, for then the Image of God must either be a reward, which Adam by his pure naturals and strength thereof must purchase by working, which the…

2. These influences were free gifts, but not promised. 3. They seem to be ordinis naturalis, natural, though they did bow and previously incline the will, but not so in the New Testament, for the whole Covenant is called by the promise of the giving of a new heart (Hebrews 8:10)…

The Lord speaks often of the Covenant of Grace not so much as preached, qua foedus ennunciatum (though it so also must be preached) but as fulfilled by God, and acted in an effectual powerful way, upon the hearts of the elect only, and that according to the Lord's decree of elec…

Yet may it be disputable to some, whether grace by which one is effectually drawn to Christ, rather than another, be the grace of predestination continued and so before Christ's death, or a fruit of Christ's death and so after. But it may well be said that every created saving g…

The Temple is a type of Christ, yet it is burnt with fire, and the sanctuary profaned. And the Lord required a sort of slowness of motion of the heart toward these, and would have his people in their exile resting upon this (Ezekiel 11:16): Therefore say, thus says the Lord God,…

Argument 1. What argument does prove that there is a people in Covenant with God, who call the Lord their God (as in Zechariah 13:9; Jeremiah 32:38; Isaiah 25:9), the same shall prove Christ to be in Covenant with God: as whoever can say, 'he is my God,' must be in Covenant with…

2. It is necessary that the promises that are our writs and charters of heaven be in a surer hand than in our own, to wit, in the keeping of Christ: for this is an absolute promise made to us (Ezekiel 36:26), "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within…

Unless he falls as dew and showers on our dry and barren hearts, unless he causes our graces to spring, thrive, and bring forth fruit, unless he revives and increases faith, love, and holiness in our souls, our backslidings will not be healed, nor our spiritual state recovered.…

But the chief profit toward the faithful is to be considered: in whom as the Lord works all things by his Spirit, so he leaves not the instruments of his word, and uses the same not without effect. Let this therefore stand which is true, that all the strength of the godly rests…

First, what is meant by thoughts, especially as they are the intended subject of this discourse, which in so vast an argument I must necessarily set limits to: 1. By thoughts, the Scriptures do comprehend all the internal acts of the mind of man, of what faculty soever, all thos…