Isaiah 23

And a time of a great prevailing of eminent holiness, when little children should, in spiritual attainments, be as though they were a hundred years old (Isaiah 65:20), and wherein he that is feeble among God's people should be as David (Zechariah 12:8). A time wherein holiness s…

In it the Ammonites, Moabites, Midianites, Edomites, from their common ancestry, and the other inhabitants by reason of proximity and the wars waged against them, were well known to the Israelites. The Mediterranean Sea was to them the great sea; the western sea, and whatever la…

It's a man's betaking himself to Christ, that when he shall be called for, it may be answered, Lord, I am in Christ not having my own righteousness, etc. It is not to be lippenning to the man's good hopes, to his good prayers, or to his good meaning, but to Christ's satisfaction…

Christ's fame spread abroad through all the country, and now he is shamed and a reproached man; now the whole people cry out away with him, away with him, crucify him; the ground of man's glory is his goodliness or graciousness, his [in non-Latin alphabet], all his endowments an…

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"He that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them." Holiness shall then be as it were inscribed on every thing, on all men's common business and employments, and the common utensils of life:…

To which I answer: God forbid that there were buying and selling and bartering for as good again between Christ and us; for then free grace might go play, and a Savior sing dumb, and Christ go and sleep. But we go to heaven with light shoulders, and all the family, and the vesse…

But jacta est alea, the providence of God must be served, according to the discovery made of his own unchangeable will, and not the mutable interests and passions of the sons of men. For verily the Lord of Hosts has purposed to pollute the pride of all glory, and to bring into c…

For this sin God strikes many with Frenzy, and so levels the Mountain of pride. God has stained the pride of England's glory, Isaiah 23.9. He has stripped us of our Jewels, Proverbs 16.8. Pride goes before destruction.

Money used to have an image and superscription upon it (Matthew 22:20). And the prophet has given us an inscription for ours (Isaiah 23:18): Her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord, and so also (Zechariah 14:20-21). Hereby we stamp the image of God upon them.

But his unchangeable love depends not on the ebbing and flowing of your transient and up and down sense: in this, you worship a dependent God. There is no rule without God to regulate him, or yet to straighten him in his walking; we are not to misplace God, for though the God of…

This duty is commended in the Church of Macedonia, that they gave their own selves, first to the Lord, and after to them that were in need, by the will of God (2 Corinthians 8:5). And thus the Prophet Isaiah foretells, that the city Tyrus being converted, should consecrate thems…