Isaiah 10

2. See the difference between God and a great part of the world, they are unjust. 1. In their courts of judicature; they pervert justice (Isaiah 10:1). They decree unrighteous decrees.

Divide the world, says Brerewood, into 31 parts, nineteen parts of it are possessed by Jews and Turks, seven parts by Heathens; so that there are but five parts of Christians; and among these Christians so many seduced Papists on one hand, and so many formal Protestants on the o…

2. There is God's visiting in anger (Jeremiah 5:9). Shall I not visit for these things? That is, God's visiting with the rod; and (Isaiah 10:3). What will you do in the day of visitation? That is, in the day when God shall visit with his judgments.

Thus you see God's providences are wise and regular, though to us they seem very strange and crooked. Second, here's another case, the wicked flourish; this seems to be very much out of order: yes, but God in his providence sees good sometimes that the worst of men should be exa…

And Christ looked beyond Judas and Pilate, he looked to God's determinate counsel in delivering him up to be crucified (Acts 4:28), this made him say (Matthew 26:39), Father, not as I will, but as you will: 'Tis vain to quarrel with instruments. Wicked men are but a rod in God's…

Does God take the Assyrian as a staff in his hand to beat his people with? Those blows are smart and make them cry; but the end of his so doing is that he may accomplish his whole work upon Mount Zion (Isaiah 10:12). If God can bring much good out of the worst and greatest evil…

How shiftless are they? (Isaiah 10:3) When God asks of them, What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation that shall come upon you from far? to whom will you flee for help? where will you leave your glory? (Jeremiah 5:31) What will you do in the end?

And (Isaiah 7:8), the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria, and they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys. (Isaiah 10:6), I will send the Assyrian against a hypoc…

4. And by faith I live not, Christ lives in me, and I am crucified and mortified; that is, by faith I know that I did live the life of God, and was crucified to the world; whereas I was dead in sins, before I believed. 5. And because believing is somewhat more than a naked act o…

He also makes mention of Lebanon, for we know that it was a mountain greatly renowned in regard of fair and goodly trees which were in it: but if he had spoken of the Assyrians, there should have been no reason in it for him to speak of the destruction of Lebanon. From where we…

And therefore Christ says that, unless God put a period to those calamities, the Jews will utterly perish, so that not a single individual will be left; but that God will remember his gracious covenant, and will spare his elect, according to that other prediction of Isaiah, Thou…

when the Prophets would say, will you destroy even the remnants to utter destruction? And that comes to pass through the ambiguity or doubtfulness of the Hebrew word (Isaiah 10:22; 28:22; Ezekiel 11:13). For seeing the word Chalah may signify as well to end and finish, as to con…

God judges not as we do; we are all in haste, and will have it now, Numb. 12:13 But he is a God of judgement, and blessed are they that wait for him, Isaiah 30:18 (2.) Afflictive Providences have not accomplished that design upon our hearts they were sent for, when we are so ear…

First, that wicked and ungodly men while they satisfy their own lusts, are but doing the work of Satan and executing his designs. These Sabeans, though they did not think it, yet they came upon Satan's errand: so God, when he does justly use wicked men to punish or correct his p…

and frequently elsewhere, both in the Old and New Testament. By moving of the bowels (or sounding, or making a noise, as the word is elsewhere translated, Isaiah 10:11 and 63:15) is understood a sensible stirring of the affections, when they begin to stound, and that kindly, and…

The Apostle is speaking of them, when he says, Titus 1:16, They profess that they know God, but in Works they deny him. This was common among that People; God declares them to be an hypocritical Nation, Isaiah 10:6. And 'tis certain, this was the Case with them in the Wilderness…

REFLECTIONS. HOw unlike am I to God, in the afflicting of his people? The Lord is pitiful when he smites them, but I have been cruel. He is kind to them, when most severe; but the best of my kindnesses to them, may fitly enough be called severity. God smites them in love, I have…

It is very possible we may be enlightened, or humbled, or reformed, may be brought nearer to God, or weaned from the world, may be furnished with matter for repentance, or prayer, or praise, by the injuries that are done us, and may be much furthered in our way to heaven, by tha…

God begins the judgment on his Church for a little time, that it may end and rest upon his enemies forever. And indeed he leaves the wicked last in the punishment; so as he makes use of them for the punishing of his Church, they are his rod (Isaiah 10). But then when he has done…

So that indeed Christ may properly be styled, Rex Regum, King of Kings. As the king of Assyria made his boast (Isaiah 10:8), Are not my princes altogether kings? A vaunting speech of his, that his princes and favorites were for power and authority as good as kings.

Judgment began at the house of God, what notable humiliation and reformation has it produced there? There is God's whole work to be done upon Mount Zion (Isaiah 10:12). What fruit of all those terrible judgments?

Whoever's will be left undone, God's will should be done, and never left undone to fulfill that of another or our own. They that put unrighteous decrees in execution, are under the same woe with them who decree them; for without the execution, the decree would do no hurt to them…

Then should that (2.) distinction of Jews in the heart, and inward, and of Jews in the flesh (Romans 2:28), and of the children of the flesh, that are not of the spiritual seed, and of the children of the promise (Romans 9:7-8), and of the persecuting children of the bond woman…

We are fallen, but Ephraim's stout heart (2) will rise whether God will, or not (Isaiah 9:9). And (3) the King of Assyria's stout heart will be as strong as God (Isaiah 10:12-13). And (4) it's wicked stoutness to say godly mourning before the Lord is in vain (Malachi 3:13-14).

We believe in Christ: but do we repent in Christ? 4. Faith is a leaning on God (Isaiah 10:20), (Isaiah 26:3), (Isaiah 50:10) love is not so. Faith is a coming to God by way of affiance (John 5:40), (Matthew 11:28), (John 6:37) a receiving of Christ (John 1:11) an eating of his f…

Shall I take my bread and my waters, and my flesh which I killed for my hearers, and give it to men whom I know not from where they be? And he was as mad a fool who thus speaks, (Isaiah 10:13) By the strength of my hand have I done it, and by my wisdom, for I am prudent: and I r…

Proof 15. The fifteenth proof urges God's earnest expostulations, pleadings, and protests to those many of whom perished (Romans 11:27; Isaiah 10:22) — such as: 'Oh that there were such a heart in them to fear me, that it might be well with them' (Deuteronomy 5:29); 'What more c…

1. To have only a show of godliness is a God-enraging sin: he who is a pretender to Saint-ship, but his heart tells him he has nothing but the Name; he carries Christ in his Bible, but not in his Heart; some politic design spurs him on in the ways of God, he makes Religion a Lac…

O, my brother, if he will but go along with us, what need we be afraid of ten thousands that shall set themselves against us? (Psalm 3:5-8; 27:1-3). But without him, the proud helpers fall under the slain (Isaiah 10:4). I, for my part, have been in the fray before now; and thoug…

This [reconstructed: looks] like poverty, to believe the other mystery in the other side or page of Providence, [illegible] glory of dividing the Red Sea, and of giving seven mighty nations to his people, and their buildings, lands, vineyards, gardens, is a strong faith. 2. The…

Christ takes sinners not by dozens, not by thousands — it is but once in all the word (Acts 2) that three thousand are converted at once — but by one's and two's. Though Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant shall but be saved, [reconstructed: only a remnant] (Romans 9…