Ezekiel 23

Quest. Wherein does it appear that it is such a great blessing to be delivered from places of idolatry? Resp. It is a great mercy, because our nature is so prone to idolatry: Israel began to be defiled with the idols of Egypt (Ezekiel 23:3). Dry wood is not more prone to take fi…

Popery is a God-dishonoring religion: They dishonor God's name. (1.) By their idolatry, which is spiritual adultery (Ezekiel 23:37). Idolatry is to worship a false God, or the true God in a false manner; this they are guilty of.

Yet David's order was no cause of Joab's death, but his own treason, nor of Shimei's death, but his own flight: God never damns the creature, or decrees to damn it without respect of sin; God's Will is the cause of Preterition, his Justice is the cause of Predamnation, for damna…

Gideon's Ephod (Judges 8:27) they went a whoring after it. With their idols have they committed adultery (Ezekiel 23:37), and throughout that chapter. The two idolatrous cities, Samaria and Jerusalem are compared to two adulterous women, Aholah, and Aholibah.

See Ezekiel 20; Zechariah 9:7; Jeremiah 4:1, 32:34; Isaiah 66:3. XXIII. Finally, by way of supreme contempt they are called by the Hebrew term signifying "filth, dung, wallowing-places:": Ezekiel 23:3, "He committed fornication with them to defile himself," with dunghill-gods. L…

(Leviticus 24:15). He that curses his God, shall bear his sin. (Ezekiel 23:49). And you shall bear the sins of your idols. (Numbers 9:13). The man that is clean — and forbears to eat the Passover — that man shall bear his sin.

But if Mr. Den and others will contend that this seeing of the salvation of God, is the revelation of the literal knowledge of Christ, that saving thing which is bestowed on the nations by the ministry of John and the coming of the Messiah, they must with us confess a large syne…

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Here, her veil is the tenderness of her profession, whereby in a decent, modest and humble way, she professed herself to be a believer, seeking after Christ Jesus, as one bearing the badge of subjection to him as her husband. The taking away of the veil, is their wronging of tha…

I will Afflict the Seed of David, but not for ever: God will love for ever, but not afflict for ever; he will ere long give his people a Writ of ease. A Sinners best, and a Saints worst are but short; Affliction is called a Cup, Ezekiel 23:32. The Wicked drink a Sea of Wrath; th…

But thoughts of sin may be sinful thoughts, with respect to sin past, or sin to come; with respect to sin past, when men please themselves in the thoughts of their past sins, when they chew the cud, and lick their lips after it, or as it is said in (Job 20:12-13), they hide (and…

O how cursed! O how damned will the sinner of an hundred years old be! The Scripture speaks of those that are old in adulteries (Ezek. 23:43). An old wanton, an old drunkard must needs fall under a heavy sentence in the day when God shall bring them into judgment.

Because you do not love the Lord nor reverence his holy law, this increases the evil exceedingly. It argues a sensual, sottish, atheistical disposition of heart to live without God and [illegible], in our course [illegible] to put off the apprehensions of Christians and men — th…

The help of the creature substitute in the room of God, having the luster of blue and purple, or clothed in scarlet, riding upon horses. Young men of desire (Ezekiel 23:23) do easily dazzle our eyes, and when we are not renewed in the spirit of our mind, unsanctified hearts are…

(Verse 20) The soul that sins shall die, the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father? (Ezekiel 23:35) Because you have forgotten me — bear you also your lewdness and your whoredom. In the same very sense, Christ (Hebrews 9:28) was once offered to bear the sins of many (1 P…

Reas. 4. Because God does by his awakening judgements teach them he intends good to: David professes, Your judgements make me afraid, that is, afraid to sin, afraid to be licentious and remiss in my life and ways. Reas. 5. Because God does charge the neglect of this duty upon Ju…