Isaiah 19

Secondly, by the Church's prayer to Christ, that he may hasten the translating of them into heaven in the end of the world, ver. 14. Who is this that comes, &c.] Who these Churches should be that remain to be called after the conversion of the Jews and Gentiles, we cannot concei…

The Macedonians on the birthday of Alexander did wear Alexander's picture about their necks, set with gold and pearl: so the righteous carry the lively picture of Christ in their holy example; they live so devoutly as if they had seen the Lord with bodily eyes. 2. The life of a…

The Jews, when scattered in their several flights, did scatter among the heathen the notions of the true religion. When they shall go down to Egypt to secure themselves from Sennacherib's invasion, they shall be a means to make many converts among that idolatrous nation (Isaiah…

As it is said of evil men, that their tongues are set on fire of hell; so the tongues of the righteous are set on fire by heaven. Isaiah 19:18: they speak the language of Canaan. In hypocrites there is loquacity as blazing meteors, and in saints there is sometimes an indispositi…

Oh it is a sad expression, what Israel! a vessel employed and received to empty out excrements! [1. Israel were a people precious and honorable in the eyes of God (Isaiah 43:4). [2. An holy people to the Lord (Deuteronomy 14:2). [3. They were God's peculiar people above all nati…

But this events must determine. In the prophecies of Egypt's destruction, it is signified, that when their rivers and waters should be dried up, in that sense, that the streams of their temporal supplies should be averted from them, their defence would be gone (Isaiah 19:4, &c.)…

And likewise Ezekiel 30:13; Leviticus 19:4, eidola [idols]; and Habakkuk 2:18, eidola kopa [idols] and eidola muta [mute idols]. Also Psalm 97:7, glypta [graven images], that is, "carved images"; Isaiah 19:3, theoi [gods] and agalmata [statues] — "gods and images"; Psalm 96:5, d…

(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…

3. They are defined by their country. Isaiah 19:18: Five Cities of the land of Egypt shall speak the Language of Canaan. Verse 24: In that day Israel shall be the third part with Egypt and Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the Land.

It is further said, we must restore in the spirit of meekness. The word spirit is added, because it proceeds from the spirit of God, who is both the worker and continuer thereof: as on the contrary, the spirit of jealousy (Numbers 5:14), the spirit of error (1 John 4:6), the spi…

To bless and swear, is taken for the whole service of God. Swearing is one branch of this service, as we have seen in (Isaiah 19:18) and (Isaiah 48:1). For thereby we leave all judgment to God, and acknowledge him the true witness of whatever is done or spoken.

I do acknowledge that there is no distinction of places, for it is the will of the Lord that men should call upon Him everywhere; but as believers, who profess to worship the God of Israel, are said to speak in the language of Canaan, (Isaiah 19:18,) so they are also said to com…

They ought to profess that all their hearts and souls are in these engagements to be the Lord's, and forever to serve him; 2 Chronicles 15:12-14. God's people's swearing to God, and swearing by his name, or to his name, as it might be rendered, (by which seems to be signified th…

Was not the Lord in their counsels also, when they suffered a small inconsiderable party in a little village within a few miles of them, to grow into such a body as at length they durst not attempt, when they might have broken their whole endeavor with half a hundred of men? Dou…

So that these things must necessarily be spoken of him in the same respect; and the former, as we have shewed, relateth to his Person in respect of his Divine Nature, so therefore does the latter, and his acting therein. 3. There is yet another word, which I suppose the Apostle…

There is a spirit who rules in the children of disobedience, Satan the Prince of the air (Ephesians 2). The spirit of giddiness and error leads Egypt (Isaiah 19:14). The spirit of whoredom (Hosea 4:12; Hosea 5:4) that inclines to idolatry.

Turkish History tells us, that the very Camels that are used to go to Mahomets Tomb, are ever after of high esteem amongst them, so as they never after use them in any mean servile way as they did before: Though things be never so mean, yet by the use they become honorable; no u…

3. His inheritance, Isaiah 19:25 other people are the work of Gods hands, but Israel is his inheritance. 4.

First, communion consists in the delight they have in one another: There is a full, actual, mutual, everlasting delight between God and the Saints in heaven: First, there is a delight: Secondly, full: Thirdly, actual: Fourthly, mutual: Fifthly, everlasting. First, there is a del…

He destroys the wisdom of the wise and brings to nothing the understanding of the prudent, 1 Corinthians 1:19. This he largely describes in Isaiah 19:11-14: drunkenness and staggering are the issue of all their wisdom, for the Lord gives them the spirit of dizziness. So also Job…

When he means evil, he sends them evil magistrates. (Isaiah 19:4): The Egyptians will I give over into the hands of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them. But when good governors, it is a mercy, and a presage of good.

There is no other way whereby God can according to covenant convey spiritual good to you, no other way whereby you can receive it. Be therefore forever comforted in your condition, God must cut if he cure you of a stony heart, God must wound that secure and careless soul of your…

But he chooses with a Covenant choice and calling all the Nations (Isaiah 2:2-3), all the families of the earth under the New Testament (Psalm 22:27), all Egypt and Assyria under the New Testament. Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hand (Isaiah 19:29). All t…

(3.) From Covenant prayers and church prayers — contrary to (1 Samuel 12; Psalm 28:9; Psalm 67:1-2; Psalm 103:4-5). (4.) From the blessing of the Lord's Covenant-presence, who dwells in the Nation, in the Kingdom (Psalm 135:21, Psalm 132:13-14, Revelation 11:15, Isaiah 19:25, Is…

Q. 1. If multitudes and people externally covenanted with God, though not internally, whom the Lord calls his people and chosen by him (Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 10:15), be the rightly constituted and visible church, as Mr. Thomas Hooker grants, then kingdoms must be his visi…

But then the whole Gentiles (Isaiah 55:4-5; Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 60:1-3, etc.), all nations (Isaiah 2:1-2), all flesh (Isaiah 40:5; Psalm 65:2), all the kindreds of the earth (Psalm 22:26-27), the kingdoms of the world (Revelation 11:15), should be all chosen to life, taught of…

6. When the Lord does mingle a perverse spirit among a people, it is a sign that the day of trouble is near. This we may see mentioned as the forerunner of Egypt's ruin (Isaiah 19:14): "The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof." When men are resolved to oppose…

So more than twenty times in the Gospel of John, there is mention of this sending; and our Savior describes himself by this description, him whom the Father has sent (John 6:39), and the Father, by this, he who sent me (John 8:16). So that this action of sending is appropriate t…

2. That God delights to mix a spirit of giddiness, error, and folly in the counsels of the wise men of the world; making them reel and stagger in their way like a drunken man, that they shall not know what to do, but commonly in their greatest concernments, fix upon things, as d…

First, I call it, a Confirmation; for so the Holy Ghost speaketh, An oath for confirmation, is among men an ende of all strife (Hebrews 6:16). Secondly, I terme it a religious confirmation, because an Oath is a part of Gods Religion and worship; yes, it is sometimes put for the…

The Scriptures they insisted on were all of them gathered together in the Epistle of Pope Hadrian, which was solemnly assented to by the whole Council. And they were these: God made man of the dust of the Earth after his own image (Genesis 1); Abel by his own choice offered a sa…