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…

5. A fearful cowardly spirit is another cause, they constrain you to be circumcised, only lest they should suffer persecution for the Cross of Christ (Galatians 6:12). It was by this means as some have observed, that the Pope got up, and kept all his idolatries, because the mini…

God has no voluntary service in the world but from them; therefore he is more interested in their good, than in the good of the whole world besides. The services of the church are all the delight God has in the world (Hosea 9:10): "I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, I…

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…

Also in Psalms 106:28: "They also joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead." And in Hosea 9:10: "They came to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to that shameful thing." He is also called simply Pehor in Numbers 25:18: "They plotted against you in the…

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…

(Psalm 16, last verse) in your presence is fulness of joys; and the Apostle thought he had backed his exhortation with a most potent argument in (Hebrews 12:14), follow after holiness, without which no man shall see God; in his light only can we see light; and there is nothing b…

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 will then suffer a sentence of banishment, never to see the face of God any more, never to come within the glorious palace of the great King, which is a sad sentence indeed, considering that in God's favor there is life, and His loving kindness is better than life itself. W…

And we are told (2 Thessalonians 1:9), "They shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" and if in his presence there is fullness of joys (Psalm 16:11), then in a separation from it, there must be fullness of so…

Christ cursed the Fig-tree that had no fruit on it; and he expects that they should bear pleasant fruit, the works of righteousness, and true holiness; such as he himself may take pleasure in, and that may be truly comfortable to themselves. God therefore commends their obedienc…

2. That God frequently withdraws his Spirit from the means, as the first effect of his departure from unfruitful sinners. He possibly neither takes the means from them, nor them from the means for the present; but he secretly withdraws from them, and leaves them only under outwa…

It is a dismal thing to be banished out of the Lord's presence. Hosea 9:12. "Wo to them when I depart from them!" A greater wo than that there never was, nor can there be.

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…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, all the Priests, Levites, and Prophets of the Jewish church, who had the same promises which the Christian church has now under the New Testament (1 Corinthians 10:3-4; 2 Samuel 7:16; Isaiah 49:15-16); together with the High Priest…

If it be so with us, go to Shiloh, and tremble. A [illegible] forsaken of God are in the road way to all misery: we read, [illegible] forsakes his tent which was in Shiloh, and what follows, but ruin and waste, and a universal deluge of destruction: all woes follow when he is go…