Ezekiel 24

The time of King Henry the 8th was called the Golden Age, but this may be called the unclean age, wherein whore-hunting is common. (Ezekiel 24:13) In your filthiness is lewdness. Luther tells of one who said, If he might but satisfy his lust, and be carried from one whore-house…

Sincerity though it shields from hell, yet not from slander. (3.) God sometimes afflicts with loss of dear relations (Ezekiel 24:16): Son of man behold I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: this is like a pulling away a limb from the body. He takes away a h…

Tenthly, they are as rottenness, and their root is rottenness (Isaiah 5:24). And then, they are as scum, in Ezekiel 24:12. And as scum ready for the fire.

Can he annul or break his covenant? No truly: but it is said he forsakes and profanes his heritage: as in Psalm 89, Ezekiel 24, because we can judge no otherwise of it by outward appearance. For in that he bore not that affection towards them he was accustomed to, it was a kind…

So you read, Daniel 11:35 it purifies and makes their souls white: Hence it's compar'd to a furnace which separates the dross from the pure metal, Isaiah 48:10 Behold I have refined you, but not with Silver: I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. But for wicked men, let…

What a change was here in Moab? Moab, an idolatrous company, that hated God's people, and were enemies to all goodness — yet when they were weary, and God's hand lay heavy upon them, then they would pray (Ezekiel 24:12). So that you see clearly, though men do change their lives,…

We may illustrate this by a contrary rule given by this prophet Jeremiah, and likewise by Ezekiel, when mourning was forbidden (Jeremiah 16:6), where he speaks of some that should die and have none to mourn for them, he says, they shall not lament for them, nor make themselves b…

When the disposition of grace is on, a small object brings forth suitable actings; Christ lets out one cast of his eye upon Peter, and he went out and wept bitterly; a small shake of the tree brings down ripe apples, they fall of their own accord: a gentle quiet gale of wind wil…

Set a pot on the fire, and put flesh into it; while it is cold, there is nothing but water and meat: but set it boiling, and then the scum arises. It is a simile used in (Ezekiel 24:11-12). I say, observe what arises in your spirit, at any time, when there is some commotion, whe…

They were only the fruit of the present pang, therefore it was said they lied to him with their tongue. So (Ezekiel 24:12). She has wearied herself with lies, and her scum went not forth out of her, speaking of her promises, when the pot was over the fire there seemed to be offe…

(Hosea 7:1) When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, etc. (Ezekiel 24:13) In your filthiness is lewdness, because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to…

If you have time, who knows that God will give you a heart, to seek for mercy or sue for grace; it is true God may help you, but it is as true God may harden you, he may humble you and he may leave you, and it is most likely he will. You which have refused to hear, he will refus…

Cartwright says it is a metaphor from men who, being oppressed with a burden, transfer it off themselves upon one who is mightier and stronger: it is excellent when the heart rolls all its cares upon the Lord, and disburdens itself upon him. (8.) There is a word that notes to le…

Men seem to contend as the Jews of old, who should be most wicked . In their filthiness is leudness, (Ezekiel 24:13). If oaths and drunkenness, if perjury and luxury will make a people guilty, then it is to be feared England is in Gods black Book.

1. We must be patient when God removes any comfort from us: Does God take away any of our Relations? Ezekiel 24. 16. I will take away the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet it is our duty patiently to acquiesce in the Will of God: The loss of a dear Relation, is like the pu…

And there is infinite danger in men's delaying their conversion, lest God should say of them as he did of the old world of ungodly ones, who deferred their repentance (Genesis 6:3): My spirit shall not always strive with man. Or as it was said of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 24:13): Becau…

The Psalmist speaking of the wicked, says, they are become filthy; in the Hebrew it is, they are become stinking. That you may see how low a sinner is fallen in God's account, the Lord compares him to dross, Psalm 119:119 to chaff, Psalm 1:4 to a Pot boiling with scum, Ezekiel 2…

And pronounces, Let him that is unjust, be unjust still, and let him which is filthy, be filthy still (Revelation 22:11). And says, In your filthiness is lewdness, because I have purged you, and you were not purged; you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more, till I h…

- 1. Of a holy frame of grace by original corruption, which is opposite to original and renewed holiness, or to this holy frame. - 2. Of the God of grace himself when he comes to work it (Job 21:14; Ezekiel 24:13). The first is taken away in that which we call the spirit of sanc…

If the fire of affliction be continually blown till the very bellows be burned, that is, the tongue, or rather the lungs of the prophet, which have some resemblance to bellows; though these be even spent in reproving and threatening, and denouncing woe upon woe, and judgment upo…

To the excrement of metals, dross, and reprobate silver (Jeremiah 6:28; Ezekiel 22:18). To the excrement of a boiling pot, a great scum (Ezekiel 24:11-12). To the worst of all diseases, sores (Isaiah 1:6), rottenness (2 Timothy 3:8), gangrenes or leprosies (2 Timothy 2:17), plag…