Isaiah 13

2. There is a price laid down for this kingdom; heaven is not only a kingdom which God has promised, but which Christ has purchased: it is called a purchased possession, (Ephesians 1:14) though this kingdom is given to us freely, yet Christ bought it with the price of his blood;…

Those Cities were utterly destroyed, and accordingly is the destruction of Sodom put for an utter overthrow. See (Isaiah 13:19; Zephaniah 2:9; Jeremiah 48:18; Jeremiah 50:40; 2 Peter 2:6). From there, that in judgements wicked men may be brought to an utter destruction.

If God be gone, England will be like an house that hath the furniture taken down, and is falling to ruine. Isa. 13. 31. Owles shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. If God be gone, Satan will be the next Tenant.

It is a very strange phrase. And in Isaiah 13:16, Their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes. I remember Ursine in his comment upon that place of Isaiah, he quotes this Psalm 137, and he has first this note, that though God does thus execute his wrath, yet usuall…

In Psalm 137:8, 'O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be that rewardeth you as you have served us, happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth your little ones against the stones.' And in Isaiah 13:18, 'Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces,…

(Isaiah 10:6), I will send the Assyrian against a hypocritical nation. So (Jeremiah 1:15-16), (Isaiah 13:1-3), (Isaiah 15:1-2, [illegible]), (Isaiah 17:1-3), (Isaiah 19:1-4). Now God could not be the Author of war and peace, as God and Sovereign all-Disposer, if it were in the i…

God sent Joseph to Egypt to be the governor thereof, and a reliever of Jacob's family (Genesis 45). In this regard the Medes and Persians are said to be the sanctified ones of God (Isaiah 13:3), and the men of his counsel (Isaiah 46:11). The use: hence we are all taught, to walk…

And then verse 16 branches it into those three that are indeed the base anti-trinity that the world worships: the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. The soul of man unconverted is no other but a den of impure lusts, wherein dwells pride, uncleanness,…

4. Consider how much pride has cost us: they that are proud and burdensome to other people, God will pull down their pride. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity, and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the h…

It is in Scripture-phrase a precious thing indeed, of which it might be said, it is more precious than gold. But of a good man might such a thing be spoken: it may be said of such a man, as in Isaiah 13:12, the man is more precious than fine gold; even than the golden wedge of O…

He is like a ship in a tempest — sickness begins to make a tempest in his body, and sin to make a tempest in his conscience, and he has nowhere to take shelter. Their faces shall be as flames (Isaiah 13:8) — such fear and horror shall seize upon sinners in the evil day that thei…

First, for the world as container — generally for the whole fabric of heaven and earth with all things in them contained, which God created in the beginning (Job 34:13; Acts 17:24; Ephesians 1:4); and distinctly, first for the heavens and all things belonging to them distinguish…