Hosea 9

If they may have peace and trading they care not what becomes of the Ark of God. A true child of God fears nothing so much as the loss of his Father's presence (Hosea 9:12): Woe to them when I depart from them. 2. Love to our heavenly Father is seen by loving his day (Isaiah 58:…

The saints have had the shining of God's face when affliction has rained and dropped upon them. Thus we may rejoice in affliction, but we cannot rejoice in sin (Hosea 9:1): Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people, for you have gone a-whoring from your God. Sin is matter…

2. If God be in the midst of his Church, let us do what we can to keep God among us. Israel endeavoured to keep the Ark among them, which was the sign of Gods presence, Hos. 9. 12. Wo to them, when I depart from them. If God be gone, then all other blessings go too; peace and tr…

In his time of love (Ezekiel 16:8). When he is ripe, like the first ripe in the fig-tree (Hosea 9:10). 3. Often he chooses in the furnace (Hosea 5, last verse): I will return to my place.

Fie on all the glory of the world; let us not think 1. too much of this piece, airy, windy, vain opinion of men's esteem and the applause; it's but a short living, hungry Hosanna, when your name is carried through a spot or bit of this clay-stage, for a day or two, they'll wonde…

For there is one only mercy of God which saves: and that may offer itself to them both. This sentence therefore answers that testimony of Hosea, which he cited before: I will call that my people which was no people (Hosea 9:25). Moreover, his meaning is not that God does so blin…

Nevertheless this must be acknowledged to be a sad stroke upon any person, and such as maims them upon the working hand, by unfitting them for duty, 1 Peter 3:7 and cuts off much of the comfort of life also. (2.) How many are there, who never enjoy the comfortable fruits of Marr…

He comes nigh in mercies also, Psalm 145:18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, &c. Yea, he is said to visit us by his Providence when he corrects, Hosea 9:7 and when he saves and delivers, Psalm 106:4 These visitations of God preserve our spirits, Job. 10:12 And…

And for you, wo unto you, when God leaves thus speaking unto you; when he refuss to Exhort you any more, wo unto you. This is Gods departure from any person or people, when he will deal with them no more about forgiveness; and faith he, Wo unto them when I depart from them, Hose…

The Absence of God from the soul, by his departure, withdrawing, or hiding himself from it, is that which principally casts the soul into its depths. Woe unto them, says the Lord, when I depart from them, Hosea 9:12. And this woe, this sorrow does not attend only an universal, a…

Will anything recover it, if we do not recover our appetite, and prize, and cry after it. If the Gospel go, God will go, the Gospel being the sign and means of his special presence, and woe be to us when God shall depart from us. (Hosea 9:12) And if God depart with the Gospel, f…

The husbandman is exceedingly grieved, when he sees the hopes of a good crop disappointed, and his fields prove barren, or blasted. So the Lord expresses his grief for, and anger against his people, when they bring forth no fruits, or wild fruits, worse than none (Hosea 9:16): E…

One would think by the reading of the words, they were rather the speech of the Spouse to Christ; but it is the speech of Christ to his Spouse: And so again in Cantic. 5:2 Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: these are the expressions of the delight that God ha…

If it is a blessing for the woman which bears the child to give it suck, then mothers are bound to perform this duty. 2. It is denounced as a curse, that women shall have a barren womb and dry breasts (Hosea 9:14). If it is a curse for women to have dry breasts, then women may n…

1 Who are to hear and to undergo this doom, namely them on his left hand, the goats, the sinners, the workers of iniquity, as it is Matthew 7:23. 2 The sentence or doom itself, Depart from me; woe to you, says God (Hosea 9:12), when I depart from you; but woe, woe, woe will it b…

They framed to themselves a god of Gold and worshipped it. The Scripture calls Idols, Bosheth, a shame, Hosea 9:10. For this God disclaimed them from being his people, Exodus 32:2.

Then Christian called to Demas, saying, Is not the place dangerous? Has it not hindered many in their pilgrimage (Hosea 9:6)? Demas: Not very dangerous, except to those that are careless; but also he blushed as he spoke.

An unregenerate heart is carnal while engaged in duties that are spiritual. Some men deceive themselves in thinking they are spiritual men because their employment and calling is about spiritual things (Hosea 9:7). This indeed gives them the name, but not the frame, of spiritual…

The dispute between Christ and the woman goes on: Christ brings a strong reason, verse 26, why he should not heal her daughter; because she, and all her nation, not being in covenant with God, as are the Jews the church of God, are but dogs, and profane, and unworthy of Christ,…

They think because they are the seed of Abraham, and dwell in the land of promise, and have my worship, and oracles, and sacrifices, not in their hearts, but only in their lips and hands, which are but the skirts of the soul, that therefore doubtless they are clean; but whatever…