Isaiah 16

Thirdly, it makes vs waite Gods leisure for our deliverance. Isa 16:28. Lastly, in our Temptations we are not to liue by feeling, but by faith: indeed against feeling, to rest on the bare promise of God; when we feele and apprehend nothing but the wrath of God.

True religion begets tenderness; as it melts the heart in tears of contrition toward God, so also in bowels of compassion toward others. Isaiah 16:11: My heart shall sound as a harp. When our bowels of pity sound, then our alms make sweet music in the ears of God.

When a shower falls, the herbs and plants grow. Isaiah 16:9: I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon. I may allude to it: tears water our graces, and make them flourish.

When Aeneas would have saved Anchises his life, says he, Absit ut excisa possim supervivere Troiâ. Far be it from me that I should desire to live when Troy is buried in its ruins; there are in Music two Unisons, if you strike one, you shall perceive the other to stir, as if it w…

But when we have been under the Harrow, and can sympathize with our suffering Brethren, and weep with them that weep; this is a sign we are bettered by the affliction. In Music, when one string is touched, all the rest sound: so our bowels sound as an harp, Isaiah 16:11. 10. Whe…

The earth mourns and fades away, the world mourns, languishes and fades away. See also Psalm 98:8, Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 35:1-2, Isaiah 49:13, Leviticus 18:28, etc. Now rejoicing, shouting for joy, singing, breaking forth into singing, clapping of hands, crying out, answering, mou…

Then in the dawning he has prayed harder, and used his arms with greater violence than before, by this hunger grows fatter, sense stronger; it is here, Eat and be hungry, pray and desire more strongly to pray. 3. Reasons of God's not hearing prayer are; 1. Superstitious and fals…

1 Samuel 12:13, 19: the spirit of grace looks at sins against Saviors as the chiefest and greatest; though they had doubtless committed many other sins, yet none pierced them so much as this — it was because they grew weary of their Savior. So Chorazin and Bethsaida were greater…