Ezra 10

How should we therefore labor for forgiveness! till then we can have no ease in our mind, nothing but a pardon sealed in the blood of a Redeemer can ease a wounded spirit. 4. Forgiveness of sin is feasible, it may be obtained, impossibility destroys endeavor, but as (Ezra 10:2)…

For to this end it was not only needful that he should be declared to be a Priest, as the Messiah was to be, but also in that declaration all those circumstances were to be observed, wherein the nature of the priesthood of Christ might be any way praefigured. After this the Chur…

Asa commanded Judah to worship God, and the thing was right in the eyes of the Lord (2 Kings 14:23, 24). So see 2 Kings 15:23, and Ezra 10:8; so 2 Kings 34:32, 33; and that promise, Isaiah 43:23. I know I touch the sore of this age, and that this is a truth much prejudiced, ther…

How can I part with such lovely companions as these have been? How often have I been benefited by their counsels — Ezra 10:3? How often refreshed, warmed, and quickened by their company — Ecclesiastes 4:10-11?

If any should have claimed Church-fellowship, saying, I believe the promises, but would not bind himself to any duties of Evangelical obedience, this had been a taking hold of the Covenant by the halves, a taking of one part of it in seeming and pretence, and a leaving of anothe…

We have said enough against Saravia, but Bilson does better deserve an answer, who alleges more specious reasons to prove, that the Elders of the Jews were their civil Magistrates. He says, there was no Senate nor Seniors among the Jews, but such as had power of life and death,…

Oh! it's a good thing when any are going to counsel about matters of consequence, that they would prepare their hearts before they go with the possession of the fear of the great God upon their hearts, and then they will counsel well. You have a notable scripture for this in Ezr…

But I was more confirmed that the way of Antinomians is for the flesh, not for the Gospel, when I read that Mr. Crispe expounding confession (1 John 1), makes it no humble acknowledging that the sinner in person has sinned, and so is under wrath eternal, if God should judge him;…

Forms of an Excommunication. The Sentence, Ezra 10:7, 8. explained. Civil Penalties and Capital.

To give the Hand, seems to be Hebrew Phrase for entering into Covenant, or obliging themselves by Covenant. Ezra 10:19. And they gave their Hands, that they would put away their Wives.

Besides, if this decree of Artaxerxes had been according to Master Goodwin, the Bloody Tenet, and other libertines' opinion such a wicked and bloody doctrine, Ezra the Priest the Scribe of the law of the God of heaven had been bound to have instructed Artaxerxes better, and humb…

From (2 Kings 23:8, 9) compared with (2 Chronicles 14:3, 5), (2 Chronicles 15:17), (2 Chronicles 33:17), it is evident there were in Judah two sorts of high places, some on which God was worshipped, others on which Idols were worshipped; the one sort was the high places of Idola…

Fifthly, the Urim and Thummim, of which the reader may see fully in Ainsworth's Annotations on Exodus 28:30. Now that after the captivity of Babylon, Princes and Magistrates used a coercive power for offences against the first Table, is plain by those instances (Ezra 10:7, 8) of…

3. Confession must come from an honest heart, purposing not to sin, that so with the confession we may join also the confusion and overthrow of sin: He that confesses and forsakes (that is, he that in that very act of confessing forsakes) his sin, shall find mercy (Proverbs 28:1…

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him. And thus Shechaniah confesss sin to God, Ezra 10:2. And Shechaniah the Son of Jehiel,one of the Sons of Ellam, answered and said to Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, &c.

This must be a confession, that a people turned to the Lord are in their iniquities. 2. This is set down as a commendable practice (Ezra 10:1): Ezra confessed and wept (Nehemiah 9:1-2): And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their…

So faith is ready to embrace any homely service his calling leads him to, which a carnal heart would blush to be seen in; a faithful heart is never squeamish in this case, for repentance will make a man revenge himself upon himself, in respect of the many homely services he has…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because repentance, being a turning from our sins and evil ways and a turning to God, and Christ being without sin, could not be capable to repent in our stead (1 Kings 8:35; Hebrews 7:26-27; Joel 2:12-13). (2) Because those who repent conf…

Nehemiah did drive away the son of Eliashib the high Priest, not for Idolatry, but for marrying the daughter of Sanballat, and thereby defiling the Covenant of the Priesthood (Nehemiah 13:28, 29). Ezra made the Chief Priests, the Levites, and all Israel to enter into a Covenant…