Ezekiel 9

Thus was it ever. When God proceeds in judgment against Jerusalem, for the sins thereof: he marks the godly in their foreheads; namely, such as mourn and cry for the abominations which are done against God, Ezekiel 9:4. When Sodom must be destroyed, righteous Lot and his family,…

2 Peter 2:7: Lot was vexed, and his righteous heart was vexed with the unclean conversation of the Sodomites from day to day: so ought our souls to be vexed and grieved continually at the wickedness of our time: and we are to send up our prayers to God for unbelieving and unrepe…

For when a man does not so, all the angels of God are his enemies, and at all times ready to execute God's vengeance upon him: but when men carry themselves as dutiful children to God, they have this prerogative that God's holy angels do watch about them, and defend them day and…

2. God rewards secret prayer openly, by discriminating providences in a common calamity: God usually takes them into the chambers of his protection that retired themselves into chambers of devotion: They that enjoy most of God, shall be best secured by God: (Psalm 91:1) He that…

It was the manner of Paul to abase himself, and to mourn for the sins of others (2 Corinthians 12:24), and he reproves the Corinthians that they were puffed up, and did not mourn for the incestuous person. Like was the practice of David (Psalm 119:136), of Lot (2 Peter 2:7), of…

Or upon malefactors, as a hole in the ear, an F in the forehead, a brand in the hand. Or such a mark, as some think, was set upon Cain (Genesis 4:15), or the mark of God (Ezekiel 9:4), or of the beast (Revelation 16:[illegible]). The marks of Christ are of two sorts, either inwa…

The Seals of Princes were the distinguishing Marks of Princes: And thus God's Seal is spoken of as God's Mark. Revelation 7. 3. Hurt not the Earth, neither the Sea, or the Trees, 'till we have sealed the Servants of our God in their Foreheads; together with Ezekiel 9. 4. Set a M…

It is used both for Quantity and Quality; much in quantity, or plenteous, abundant, and in Quality, that is, precious, excellent. And it is applied in a good and bad sense; so it is said of our sins, Ezekiel 9:6. our sins are increased or multiplied, or are great; many in number…

Mourn, London, mourn, put on sackcloth, you see in part what an evil thing and a bitter it is, to offend a holy and jealous God; the effects of sin here are fearful sometimes, what evil is there in sin then which is the cause of your ruins. God looks now that the sinners of Lond…

Thirdly, let us greatly lament the folly and wickedness of those who speak against Christ and his holy religion, and if we can do anything, have compassion upon them, and help to undeceive them, and rectify their mistakes. Surely this is one of the abominations committed among u…

So evidently in this sense the servants of God are said to be sealed, Revelation 7:4 — marked with God's mark as his peculiar ones. This sealing answers to the setting of a mark in Ezekiel 9. Believers are sealed when they are marked for God, to be heirs of the purchased inherit…

If he hate sin all the world over, where its nearest him he hates it most, and testifies his hatred of it; will not endure it in his presence: as cleanly neat persons, cannot well look upon any thing that is nasty, much less will they suffer it come near them, or touch them, and…

And besides this, he has his Book of Remembrance, where he sets them down; are they not in your Book? Especially God writes down such Tears as are shed for the sins of the times, Ezekiel 9:2. One was clothed with linnen; with a writers Inkhorn by his side: this was to write down…

But as we should not be conformed to this world at large, so not to any part of it. Is there any sin by which the land is defiled (for which the land mourns) and is ready to spit out the inhabitants thereof for it (Leviticus 18:27-28), take heed you be not found guilty; but be o…

Upon this ground it is that they let loose themselves in the fearless pursuit of [illegible] loathsome abominations. Then said he to me — the Angel of the Lord of Hosts — the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, the land is full of blood, and the city fu…

(1) What if there be no God? (Psalm 14:1). (2) What if God see not? (Ezekiel 9:9). (3) What if man perish as the beasts? (Ecclesiastes 3:19).

Could we in silence believe it is Christ with two garments on him at once, Christ clothed with love, wrapped in the unseen mystery of tenderness of compassion, and yet his upper garment is vengeance, and rolled in blood, we should kiss the edge of Christ's bloody sword; so we ar…

Eli honored his sons more than God, suffered them to profane the priesthood and sacrifices; justice rooted out his sons from the priesthood and sacrifices: Hezekiah out of his pride showed all his treasures, and all that was in his house to the king of Babylon's messengers; and…

You say, if the mourning of God's people in a land, be the mourning of a whole land, how is it then, that they prevail not with God sometimes to save the land, for which they do mourn, but sometimes the land perishes, and only themselves preserved? As (Ezekiel 9:4): Set a mark o…