Ezekiel 22

Will you measure arms with the Almighty? Shall a little child go to fight with an archangel (Ezekiel 22:14), Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with you? Christ will put all his enemies at last under his feet (Psalm 110:1).

When God musters up all his forces, and sets himself in battle array against a sinner, how can his heart endure? (Ezekiel 22:14.) Who is able to lie under mountains of wrath? God is the sweetest friend but the fiercest enemy.

Because God is God, therefore he will give forth glorious rewards to his people. Use 3. Seeing there is a God, woe to all such as engage this God against them, he lives forever to be avenged upon them (Ezekiel 22:14): "Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the da…

This is but an endeavor to entitle God to injustice, and draw him to a copartnership with them, by giving him a share in the advantage. God hates robbery for burnt-offerings (Isaiah 61:8), and he smites his hand at men's dishonest gain (Ezekiel 22:13). He will have nothing to do…

As if you could make your part good against him? Ezekiel 22:14. He that sins against light and conscience, he bids open defiance to the majesty of God; and his lust and God's will do contend for the mastery.

Superstitio est res insana, as he said, superstition is a mad thing, folly is the cause of it, and folly the effect. 2. It is a very defiling sin, you have defiled your self in your Idols which you have made (Ezekiel 22:4). It is a sin of spiritual filthiness and uncleanness, I…

And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn aside from following me, why should I strike you to the ground? So if you will needs be tempting and trying conclusions, and making experiments, let men meddle with their match, those who are equal to themselves, not challenging one infinitel…

Do you flatter yourself that you shall find out ways for your ease and support, and make it out tolerably well, to bear up your spirit in those everlasting burnings prepared for the devil and his angels? Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shal…

Notwithstanding all their stoutness, a day is coming wherein fearfulness shall surprise them, and make them cry out, who amongst us shall dwell with devouring fire, who amongst us shall inhabit with everlasting burnings? Yea, if the Lord be pleased in this life in an especial ma…

I am persuaded that the notoriously ungodly of this generation will not go out of this world, without some remarkable temporal judgment; and that the Lord will make them feel something even here, what an evil thing, and a bitter it is so audaciously to fly in the face of the gre…

Thus some have been like lions for cruelty, and like evening wolves to the poor, tearing their flesh from their bones, and reserving their very bones to gnaw in the morning, as the Prophet speaks (Zephaniah 3:3). This sin of extortion was one of the abominations reckoned up by t…

They are spoken of as falsely calling themselves of the holy City, Isaiah 48. 1, 2. They are called Silver-Dross, and Reprobate or refuse Silver (Ezekiel 22. 18. Jeremiah 4. 30.) which glistens and shows like true Silver, but has not its inward Worth. So they are compared to adu…

It is Vncleanness in the abstract, Nu[•]b. 5. 19. Filthiness it self; An abomination; Ezekiel 22:11. And they that commit are called abominable, Revel. 21. 8. Varro says, the word imports that which is not lawful to mention; or rather, abominable persons are such as are not fit…

This kind of intemperance is expressly forbidden (Leviticus 18:19) and a capital punishment inflicted on such as offended therein (Leviticus 20:18). Abstinence in this time is set in the catalog of those notes which declare a man to be righteous (Ecclesiasticus 20:7) and the con…

In the Original it is, they are become stinking. The Wicked are compared to Dogs and Swine, 2 Peter 2:22. to dross, Ezekiel 22:19. Dross is the filth of the Mettal.

O dreadful, when the great Fountains of Gods wrath shall be broken up, and all his Bitter Vials poured out! Ezekiel 22:14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with you?

If you stand it out against the power of his word, can you stand it out against the power of Christ when he comes in glory? (Ezekiel 22:14) Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with you? O! how will your faces gather blackness and dark…

Let me here take occasion to offer to your view some sins which are especially said to be the devil's sin, and they that do them are of, work for, and are like to, and called devils. 1 Murder, especially soul-murder, of which Antichrist the devil's son is hugely guilty, in makin…

The Priests in Jeremiah's time were desperately wicked and set upon blood, even upon having Jeremiah's blood, pronouncing sentence upon him, This man is worthy to die, and You shall surely die (Jeremiah 26:8, 11). And there were many complaints by Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and other Pr…

Though there are many reasons to conceive (as the worthy author of these sermons intimates) that God will not make an utter end of us; yet we have cause enough to conclude, that He will not leave us altogether unpunished. Verily we have caused our day of trouble to draw near (Ez…

8th Commandment: You shall not steal. He breaks this commandment: who lives in no calling (1 Thessalonians 3:11); who neglects his calling (Jeremiah 48:10); who spends his wealth in riot and provides not for his family (1 Timothy 5:8); who is not content with his estate but seek…

I looked then, and saw a man named Evangelist coming to him, and he asked, “Why do you cry?” He answered, “Sir, I perceive, by the book in my hand, that I am condemned to die, and after that to come to judgment (Hebrews 9:27); and I find that I am not willing to do the first (Jo…

The Prophet tells us, that they practise iniquity that they had conceived, because it is in the power of their hand (Micah 2:1). If they have power for it, they will accomplish it; Ezekiel 22:6: To their power they shed blood. This is the measure of their sinning, even their pow…

Sin makes a man indebted to God's justice, and considering what God is, how his wrath is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12, last), it must needs therefore be a fearful thing to fall into the hands of this living God (Hebrews 10:31). For how can a man's heart endure, or his hands be s…

So the Ephesians must be told how unfit they were by nature for Christ; being the very workhouse, and shop of the devil, in which he wrought (Ephesians 2:1-3). National sins have influence in their guilt and contagion on believers: 1. When they mourn not for them, God's displeas…

But a man ripe, come to years, and so as wise as he was old: it is proved, because his estimative faculty was right (verse 26): Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. He is a wise man, who makes a wise choice, and for this cause Esau is call…

6. Prayer is a binding of God, that he cannot depart, and lays chains on his hands, and builds a wall or a hedge of thorns in his way that he cannot destroy his people (Isaiah 64:7). And there is none that calls upon your name, and stirs up himself to take hold of you [in non-La…

To the dung or garbage, the poison, sting, excrement, vomit of these filthy creatures; to a root of bitterness which defiles many (Hebrews 12:15); to thorns and briers, which bring forth no other fruits but [reconstructed: curses] (Hebrews 6:8). To the excrement of metals, dross…

But it was prophesied long before that all these things should happen, and that God being most angry, and the Christian people suffering many troubles, there should be no intercessors or prayers for them to God, as Isaiah says weeping (Isaiah 64): there is none that will call up…

(1) Because, ignorant and wicked men eating and drinking unworthily, are guilty of the body and blood of Christ, and so bring judgment upon themselves (1 Corinthians 11:29). (2) Because, all were not admitted to eat of the Passover, neither was it for all promiscuously to partak…

Oh how many crying sins have been found among us? Should God come and [illegible] with us, (and indeed so he does, and has been pleading with us a great while) and [illegible] over to us a bill of our several items, how few need he leave [illegible] those [illegible] against Jer…