Ezekiel 37

Urge God with his promise (Ezekiel 36:26): a new heart will I give you. Say, Lord, I am as the dry bones; but you did cause breath to come into them (Ezekiel 37:10). Do the same to me; breathe a supernatural life of grace into me.

God can create Jerusalem a praise, (Isaiah 65:18). The church in Ezekiel was compared to dry bones, but God made breath to enter into them, and they lived, (Ezekiel 37:10). The ship of the church may be tossed, because sin is in it, but it shall not be overwhelmed, because Chris…

Question. What names are given to the covenant? Response. 1. It is called a covenant of peace (Ezekiel 37:26), because it seals up reconciliation between God and humble sinners. Before this covenant there was nothing but enmity; God did not love us.

Branch 1. If God be so glorious a king, full of power and majesty, let us trust in him (Psalm 9:10), They that know your name will put their trust in you: Trust him with your soul; you cannot put this jewel in safer hands; and trust him with church and state affairs: He is King…

Jer. 32. 27. Is there any thing too hard for me? Did not he make the dry bones live? Ezek. 37. 7, 8. God can bring light out of darkness, harmony out of confusion; he can do more than we can think, else he should not be God.

This leads us, in our forlorn perplexities, to follow Christ's footsteps, both under evils of punishment and sin. The people in their captivity in Babylon, (Ezekiel 37) were a host of dead and (which is more) dry bones; the churches in Germany, in Scotland, are dry bones, and in…

Object 4. If the man be dead and buried, then farewell he, there is an end, no more of him. Yet Christ (2 Corinthians 1:9; John 5:25) raises the dead, and gives life to dry bones (Ezekiel 37). 2. Some fear they have nothing but an empty profession.

And no more profit to be had while such distempers of soul does last. But if you see that men come together, as in that ancient famous Vision (Ezekiel 37), every bone finds out his fellow and joins with him, and then there was a noise and a shaking, if you see bones gather, bone…

Luk 22:44. Before our conuersion, we are like the drie bones, Ezek. 37. for as when the winde of God came upon them, bone came to bone, and were ioyned with sinews, and couered with flesh, and had their senses restored: so when the spirit of God, like the fauonian winde, blows u…

For to speak properly there is but one anointed of the Lord: according to which Habakkuk says; You went forth with your anointed, for the salvation of your people (Habakkuk 3:13). For the kingdom was set up in the person of David, which was the image of Christ; who for this caus…

Saint Matthew also rightly spreads the beams of this light over Galilee, and the land of Zebulun. Darkness and the shadow of death.] Here he compares their exile in Babylon to darkness and death, because those which were detained therein were poor and miserable, and were altoget…

Expected mercies are never nearer, than when the hearts and hopes of Gods people are lowest. Thus in their deliverance out of Egypt, and Babylon, Ezekiel 37:11 So we have sound it in our own personal concerns: at Evening time it shall be light, Zach. 14:7 When we look for increa…

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,…

For understanding this, we are to look: 1. What these winds signify. 2. What this garden is. And 3. What these acts of awaking, coming, and blowing are. By winds, often in Scripture is understood the Spirit of God in his mighty operations, as (Ezekiel 37:3 and 37:14). And the sp…

So that men that are yet unbelievers, are nothing — as the Hebrews expressed death — multitudes of them are not a people, but a heap of filthy carcasses. Again take our natural misery in the notion of a captivity, which was the judgment threatened against the Jews to make them n…

You are not anything you should be, God delights to call things that are not as though they were, and therefore may call and choose you also. They are not only dry but dead bones which the Lord makes to live (Ezekiel 37:2). Can these dead bones live?

That dispensation of God which gives ability and a principle to the will for to work that act and dispensation must be before the ability of the will and act of it, and so cannot be caused by it. As if God put a soul into those dead dry bones in Ezekiel 37, that they might live,…

After death, comes judgment, when God shall lay open the secrets, and [reconstructed: hidden] counsels of the heart; then judge and spare not, but [reconstructed: for now] refer all to the Lord. And therefore if the question be touching the final estate of others, we should answ…

How can the Lord say, blessed be Egypt, and though the whole seed be visibly in covenant, old and young, yet it follows not that therefore every promise that is absolute, that is, that of a new heart, is made to all and every one within the visible covenant: for it is promised (…

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…

3. So ill-deserving men, as lost ones (Luke 19:10), sinners ([reconstructed: 1] Timothy 1:15; Romans 5:6, 8). (3.) When the Lord speaks of the Covenant of grace (Ezekiel 37:23), he adds a word of this Covenant: 'I will cleanse them, so shall they be my people, and I will be thei…

Fourth, the necessity of this Covenant appears, in that salvation is taken off free-will, and the slippery yes, and no, of free-will in the Covenant of Works, and laid upon one that is mighty, upon David, to govern Israel as their king; but (Psalm 89:19) upon Christ (as excellen…

Which better appears by the place of Ezekiel. For when the Jews believed not the promise of their return, and objected that it was no more likely that a way should be made open for them, than that dead men should come out of their graves: there was a vision showed to the Prophet…

3. Christ can speak to stark death (John 11:43; John 5:28): Jesus cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. 4. He can speak to life in abstracto (Ezekiel 37:9): Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 5. God can speak to Mother-n…

And again, I will sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you, etc. (Ezekiel 36:25). And again, They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with an…