Isaiah 2

But Christ makes his people a willing people (Psalms 110:3): they prize knowledge, and hang it as a jewel upon their ear. Those that Christ teaches, say as (Isaiah 2:3): Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in them: an…

When we are changed, A tenebris ad lucem, so changed as if another soul did live in the same body, by this change we are interested in the unchangeable God. Trust to this God only who is unchangeable (Isaiah 2:22): "Cease from man, leave trusting to the reed, but trust to the ro…

The first was declared in Mount Sinai, the manner whereof, and the station of the people in receiving the Law, I have in my Exercitations to the first Part of this Exposition, at large declared, and there the Reader is referred (Exodus 19:18). The other was declared on Mount Sin…

But principally it regards his mission by Christ after his ascension into Heaven (Acts 2:33): Being exalted and having received the promise of the Father, he sent the Spirit. The promise of him was, that he should be sent from Heaven, or from above, as God is said to be above, w…

Alas, it is nothing but a little breath: stop his mouth and his nostrils, and he is but a dead man. By this we are put in mind to consider of our frail and uncertain estate, and to lay aside all confidence in ourselves: and for this cause the prophet Isaiah teaches us to have no…

Foundations totter that are not laid deep enough: The more true light a man has, the more cause of self-abasement will he find in himself. You can never magnify Christ enough, and you can never debase self enough; and certainly Christ is most exalted when you are most abased (Is…

Which as it cannot be understood of the Jews after the captivity, who did again forsake the Lord, and were forsaken of him, as Hierome notes upon the place; so it can as ill be said, to be already fulfilled upon the Christian church, but rather that such a church is yet to be ex…

The glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean, and there shall be but a gleaning left in it, as in the shaking of an Olive Tree, two or three on the top of the uppermost bough, and when it is come to this, at that day a man shall look to his…

5. God has given the choicest things he has to his people; He has given his law. The church is the sphere, wherein the light of the gospel is fixed, and wherein it shines, from where its beams do dart out to others (Isaiah 2:3). Out of Zion shall go forth the law.

And therefore I remember I find in Josephus 14. Book of Antiquities, 27. Chap. and so his Book of the Jewish Wars, the 1. Book, and 12. Chap. he says, That those that were thieves and robbers they would make use of such caves and dens in the mountains and hills. And now to these…

Agreeable to this, 'tis said of the Messiah (Psalm 72:11), that all nations shall serve him; and in verse 17, men shall be blessed in him, and all nations shall call him blessed. And in Isaiah 2:2, it is said, that all nations shall flow to the mountain of the house of the Lord.…

The LXX renders it variously. In the cited passage it is rendered manufacta [things made by hand]: "Gods fashioned by the hands of men," Isaiah 2:8; as bdelygmata [abominations], or things to be abominated. And likewise Ezekiel 30:13; Leviticus 19:4, eidola [idols]; and Habakkuk…

Nor need we flee to that exposition ever and anon, that Christ died for all, that is, all ranks of men. For "all" is put in Scripture ordinarily for many; as (Deuteronomy 1:21; Psalm 71:18; Jeremiah 15:10; Jeremiah 19:9; Jeremiah 20:7; Jeremiah 23:30; Jeremiah 49:17; Ezekiel 16:…

When Moses delivered the Law to them (Deuteronomy 18:15), 'The Lord your God will raise you up a Prophet like to me, to him you shall hearken.' And the prophets when they prophesy of his Law (Isaiah 2:3), 'The Law shall go forth out of Zion, and the word of God from Jerusalem.'…

The second point is, that Paul must preach to the Gentiles. There be two causes of it: one, that the prophecies of the calling of the Gentiles might be fulfilled (Psalm 2 and 110; Isaiah 2). The second, because at the death of Christ the division which was between the Jews and G…

Seeing the law is abrogated (as I have said) we must be a free and voluntarie people, seruing God not of constraint but willingly, as if there were no law to compell vs. All nationsshall flow as waters to the mountaine of the Lord. Isa 2:2. Your people shall come willingly in th…

They suffer wrong, but they do none. In the mount of the Lord there is no hurt done (Isaiah 11:9), they turn their spears and swords, into mattocks and scythes (Isaiah 2:4). And they which do no wrong, but are content to suffer wrong (and that for a good cause,) are in this resp…

This is the devil's peace, where he bears the sway. The peace of which I now speak, is in the Lord, and in the true worship of God: of which read (Isaiah 2), where men are said hand in hand to go up to the mountain of the Lord, that they may hear his will, and jointly obey it. 1…

And though shortly afterwards it was totally overthrown, yet even in the present day the fulfillment of this prophecy is manifest; for, since out of Zion, went forth the law, (Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:2,) those who wish to pray aright must look to that beginning.

For if God has called you, he will make you even angry with yourselves, that ever you have been so vile as you have been. Hence it is, when God speaks of Israel's conversion (Isaiah 2:20), it is said, they shall cast away their idols from them — they shall cast away their sins a…

Again by Balaam the same words are used to signify the same time (Numbers 24:14), where they are rendered [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], in the end of the days, as many Copies read in this place. And in all the Prophets this is the peculiar notation of that season, [⟨in non-Latin al…

[in non-Latin alphabet] from [in non-Latin alphabet], is properly desiderium, desire; but is no where used in the Scripture, but for a thing, or person desired, or desirable, loved, valued, or valuable: as is [in non-Latin alphabet] also. Daniel 9:23, chapter 10:11, chapter 11:8…

Application of these principles. Promise of universal peace in the dayes of the Messiah: Isaiah 2:2, 3, 4, 5 considered. Jews' objection from it, answered.

These poor Gentiles were the little sister of the Judaical Church which were to be provided for in the love of her Spouse, the Messiah (Canticles 8:8, 9). For in the last days, the days of the Messiah, many people; yes, all nations, are to be brought to the house of the Lord, an…

Of the Targum in Solomon's Song. Isaiah 2:2, 3, 4. Chap. 4. v. 2.

Junius translates to this sense, though in more words, as well they who are born of mean men, as they who are born of the honorable. A like instance we have (Isaiah 2:9). The mean man bows down, and the great man humbles himself.

Returne, (saith the Lord to the house of Israel) and cause one another to returne. This the Prophet Isaiah nots as a practise of the subiects of this kingdome, that they shall say one to another, come, let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord, Isaiah 2. 3. But masters of famil…

The promise is, I will get me to the mountain of Myrrh, and to the hill of Frankincense: by this in general, [reconstructed: it is] understood no withdrawing of Christ's, or shutting of himself up in heaven from her; for, that will not agree to the scope, which is to show how he…

By these judgments God has shown to London the weakness and insufficiency of arms of flesh — what broken reeds they are. Some put their trust in men, and their great expectation of relief and comfort has been from their friends; by the plague God has shown, how frail and weak ma…

Therefore how often does the scripture, when speaking of Christ's redemption of his church, call it by the names of Zion and Jerusalem? This was the city that God had appointed to be the place of the first gathering and erecting of the Christian church after Christ's resurrectio…

So the Christian church at first began at Jerusalem, and from thence was propagated to all nations: so that this church of Jerusalem was the church that was as it were the mother of all other churches in the world; agreeable to the prophecy. Isaiah 2:3, 4. "Out of Zion shall go…

Nor is the acting of the Spirit tied only to the public ministry; the saints take to their houses clusters of wine-grapes, which they feed upon at home. Let the saints meet, and by conference and prayer draw down new influences of the Spirit (Jude 20; Isaiah 2:1, 2, 3; Jeremiah…

5. The Lord out of the depth of holy soveraignty withdrawes the breathings of the Spirit, and straitens the man, that he cannot speak with lively liberty, that he may depend upon the free out-goings of the Spirit. He who waters the garden, waters every plant of the garden every…

So of safety: no provoking briar, no pricking thorn (Ezekiel 28:24). So also (Isaiah 2:1): the mountain of God, above all mountains, in the latter days — that is, above the reach of opposition and violence. Look as there is a morning light that goes before the sunshine, so there…

Tenthly, it is a blessed thing to be with them, though with some hardship, because God is working more and more good for his people every day: Now he is about fulfilling the glorious promises that we have in the Prophets, to make an end of all the glory that he does intend in th…

The Spirit of God covincing your consciences, says, Come; and the Bride, the Church says, Come; and let all that hear, say, Come; all that hear what has been said of communion with Gods people, say ye to all your friends, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord. We ha…

Doubtless nothing at all. Under this naked consideration of the properties of God: justice will make men fly and hide, Genesis 3, Isaiah 2:21; patience renders them obdurate, Ecclesiastes 8:11; holiness utterly deters them from all thoughts of approaching him, Joshua 24:19. What…

For as was showed before, the other things mentioned contribute nothing to the form, nor union of such a Church. It is pleaded, that there are prophecies and promises of a national Church, that should be under the New Testament, as (Psalms 32:10, 11, 12; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 10:18…

And because it partakes so much of the Nature of a Law, and has such Resemblance to it, it is in a few Places of Scripture called a Law, without Dispute. Isaiah 2:3. The Law shall go forth from Zion.

It is a Believing in Christ, which perhaps ought rather to be rendered Trusting in Christ. Isaiah 2:10 compared with Romans 15:12. In him shall the Gentiles trust, 2 Timothy 1:12.

Let the covetous, and ambitious, declare freely, even those of them that have prospered most in their pursuit of riches, and honor, what ease all their possessions, or titles do then help them to, whether their pains are the less, because their chests are full, or their houses s…

For drunkards are not contented to become beasts themselves: but they do also draw others. And riot has always this inconvenience with it, that men encourage one another to drinking, saying: come on, let us eat and drink, after the same manner that the Prophet Isaiah speaks of (…

Man's mercy is large when it reaches to seven times — what is God, then, that reaches to more than seventy times seven in a day! (Matthew 18:21). When good men have prayed, "Lord, forgive them not" (Isaiah 2:9; Jeremiah 18:23), yet God has pardoned: and when himself was so put t…

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2. Because he chose — with a Covenant choice — the Jews and their seed (Deuteronomy 4:37, Deuteronomy 10:15, Genesis 17:7), then he must be the God of their seed. But he chooses with a Covenant choice and calling all the Nations (Isaiah 2:2-3), all the families of the earth unde…

(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…

2. The Anabaptists from these places say none are to be baptized, but such as are so in Covenant, and as have these promises fulfilled in them, in whom the Lord has wrought a new heart, and a new spirit; and that there is no external covenanting under the New Testament. But then…

Sitting still is a ceasing from relying upon the Chariots and strength of Egypt, as being dead to them: For thus says the Lord, the holy One of Israel, in returning and rest you shall be saved, in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not. And 4. his…

Now this must be given to Christ by promise (Galatians 3:16). Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made, he says not, and to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to your seed, which is Christ: He cannot well mean mystical Christ, that is, Christ and all his, for they a…