Ezekiel 47

He might bring his axe to hew you down. The waters were up to the ankles (Ezekiel 47:3). Do the waters of affliction come up to the ankles?

The second is, to be without offense: that is, innocent, giving no occasion of evil to any, and not taking them offered by others: and the continuance of those is noted to the day of Christ; which is the time in which he comes to us, either by our death, or by the last judgment.…

And Ezekiel says, That there shall be a brave summer in that land. (Ezekiel 47:12) By the river upon the bank thereof on this side, and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new f…

This sin will at length have its punishment. The places that are not seasoned by the waters of the Sanctuary, are turned to saltpits (Ezekiel 47:11). 10 For now whether preach I men or God?

And here lies the difference between the law and the Gospel: the law is from Sinai, the gospel from Zion or Jerusalem. For there it was first to be preached, and from there conveyed to all nations (Micah 4:1; Ezekiel 47:1). The second propertie of the law is, that it gendrs to b…

so they are also said to come into the temple, because out of it flowed the true religion. It is likewise the fountain of the waters, which, enlarged to an astonishing degree within a short period, flow in great abundance, and give life to those that drink them, as Ezekiel (Ezek…

So Christ teaches us, that the kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard-seed, Matthew 13:31-32, and like leaven hid in three measures of meal, verse 33. The same representation we have in Mark 4:26-28, and in the vision of the waters of the sanctuary, Ezekiel 47. The scriptu…

Application. Many also there are under the Gospel, who are given over by God to judicial blindness, hardness of heart, a reprobate sense, and [reconstructed: perpetual] barrenness; so that how excellent soever the means are which they enjoy, and how efficacious soever, to the [r…

St. Paul says of the Widows that live in pleasures, they are dead while they live, 1 Tim. 5:6 Let us eat and drink, to morrow we shall dye: Why do you say, to morrow? says Chrysostom, ye are dead already. We read Ezek. 47:11 that when the waters of the sanctuary flowed, the miry…

I have cause to fear and tremble, lest God has left me under that Curse, Revelation 20:11. Let him that is filthy, be filthy still. I fear I am become as that myrie place, Ezekiel 47:11▪ that shall not be healed by the streams of the Gospel, but given to salt, and cursed into pe…

Fitted to the use of the lowest estate, and lowest capacities of men, indeed, it takes (as we see) particular notice of their condition, stoops down to take the meanest servant by the hand, to lead them the way to Heaven; and not only that part of it which is the general way of…

You hast punished us less than our Iniquities deserve. Does God make us drink in a Cup of Wormwood? we have deserved to drink in a Cup of Wrath: does God cut us short? we have deserved he should cut us off, Ezekiel 47:3. The Waters were to the Ankles.

We read that when Ezekiel's healing Waters increased so abundantly, and the healing Effect of them was so very general; yet there were certain Places where the Waters came, that never were healed. Ezekiel 47:9, 10-11. And it shall come to pass, that every Thing that liveth, whic…

7. This being but almost a Christian, provokes God to bring dreadful spiritual judgment upon a man. Barrenness is a spiritual judgment, now this provokes God to give us up to barrenness; when Christ found the fig-tree that had leaves but no fruit, he pronounces the curse of barr…

The word travels with life or death, salvation or damnation, and brings forth one or other in every soul that hears it; I would not for a world (were it in my power to make the choice) that my labors, which were meant and designed for the promotion of your immortal souls, to the…

Let the breasts of your mercy nurse the poor. Be like the trees of the sanctuary, both for food and medicine (Ezekiel 47:12). When distressed and even starved souls are fainting, let your costly ingredients revive and restore spirits in them.

We have wounded ourselves by sin, and the wound would have been incurable, had not Christ that good Samaritan poured in wine and oil. The trees of the sanctuary (Ezekiel 47:12): the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for medicine. Thus the Lord Jesus, that tre…

If we hunger and thirst, he is pabulum animae, the food of the soul; therefore he is called the bread of life. If we are sick to death, his blood is a sacred balm: he may be compared to the trees of the sanctuary, which were both for meat, and for medicine (Ezekiel 47:12). 4. A…

Lastly, this repentance must bring forth fruits worthy of amendment of life, because it cannot be known to be sincere unless it bring forth fruit. Repentant sinners are trees of righteousness of God's own planting, and they grow by the waters that flow out of the sanctuary, and…

This ministers occasion to us to thank God, to fear before him, and always to remember Lot’s wife. I saw then that they went on their way to a pleasant river, which David the king called “the river of God;” but John, “the river of the water of life” (Psalm 65:9; Revelation 22:1;…

No, no, he is incomparable in all; methinks then you should by this time feel your love to Christ like fire to burn within with a flame? Or methinks your love to Christ should be like water, I mean the waters of the sanctuary spoken of (Ezekiel 47:3-5), which at entrance were bu…

It is the chief happiness for men in these days to live under means of grace, yet a wicked man when all about him relish of uprightness, yet he will there do wickedly, and all this is, because he will not behold the majesty of the Lord, he thinks not that Christ is there; consid…