Isaiah 23

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…

"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…

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.

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…