Isaiah 14

The world is God's diocese, and shall not he do what he will in his own diocese? He it was that turned King Nebuchadnezzar to grass, and threw the angels to Hell when they sinned, that broke the head of the Babylonish empire (Isaiah 14:12). How have you fallen from Heaven, O Luc…

His seed are exposed to God's heavy judgments in this life: God visits the iniquity of the fathers upon their children. I think I hear God speak, as (Isaiah 14:21): Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers. Use 2. See what a privilege it is to be the…

When Saul left God, he went to the witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28:8). 3. The serpent has a subtlety in its wings; for naturalists report, such serpents are found in Ethiopia, as have wings; and the Scripture mentions a fiery flying serpent (Isaiah 14:29). Which wings denote the sub…

Now such a hope as Arminians allow to Heathen and Indians, to Reprobates, who believe that Christ died for all and every one, and such as perish eternally, we gladly leave to themselves; and if our doctrine of particular redemption furnishes ground of despair as opposed to this…

When God lays us low, he can lay us lower, and therefore it is best for us, to lay ourselves as low as we can: so does he, who sits upon the ground, if his heart sit down with him too. It is possible for the body to lie groveling upon the earth, when the spirit is nestling among…

Flying to him for Refuge, Hebrews 6:18 as before. Looking unto Christ, or beholding him, Isaiah 14:25. Look unto me all ye Ends of the Earth and be saved.

For there is a man speaking within a man, and a heart within a heart acting, as if it were a man made up of soul and body. You have said in your heart, I will ascend up to Heaven, so the King of Babylon (Isaiah 14:13). So the heart acts Heaven or Hell within the man (Psalm 14:1;…

14. And upon this account there is required a deadening of our hearts to shipping and trading with diverse mighty nations, as we see in the case of Tyre (Ezekiel 27), of Babylon (Revelation 18:11-13; Jeremiah 51). So are we to be mortified to fair houses (Isaiah 5:8), stately ci…

And Alexander hearing that Parmenio his General had won the Victory, and his young Son Alexander was born the same day, prayed the Gods to spice his joy with some bitterness, lest he should surfeit of too much joy. But this prosperous state of the wicked is matter rather of pity…

On either side of the river was also a meadow, curiously beautified with lilies; and it was green all the year long. In this meadow they lay down and slept, for here they might lie down safely (Psalm 23:2; Isaiah 14:30). When they awoke they gathered again of the fruit of the tr…

This will, according to which it is said, He would that no man should know it, was his human will, according to which the Lord Jesus was a man as we are, yet without sin; which was not always fulfilled; for his Divine will, being backed with omnipotency, can never be resisted: i…

The greatness of the Persian emperors made them all usurp religious worship from their subjects. The like insolence we find in the Babylonian monarchs, they exalted themselves above the height of the clouds, and made themselves equal to the most high (Isaiah 14:14). Indeed their…