Isaiah 27

That the sea should be higher than the earth, and yet not drown it, is a wonder: so that the wicked should be so much higher than the Church in power, and not devour it, is because Christ has this inscription on his vesture and his thigh, King of Kings (Psalm 124:2), If it had n…

To love God in heaven is no wonder, but to love God when he chastises us, this discovers sincerity. 2. For purgation: To purge out corruption, Ardet palea, purgatur aurum (Isaiah 27:9). And this is all the fruit to take away his sin.

When God shakes the tree of the body, he is now gathering the fruits of righteousness (Hebrews 12:11). Sickness is God's lance to let out the imposthume of sin (Isaiah 27:9). 3. In case of God's providences to his church: we wonder what God is doing with us, and are ready to kil…

The wicked dying in their sins can expect no mercy from God as a Father. Many say, he that made them will save them, but (Isaiah 27:11): It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them. Though God was their Father by creation, yet beca…

So it is to God to have the breasts of his mercy drawn. Isaiah 27:4: "Fury is not in me" — that is, I do not delight in it. Acts of severity are rather forced from God; he does not afflict willingly (Lamentations 3:33).

When Israel was compassed in between Pharaoh and the Red Sea, no question some of their hearts did begin to tremble, and they looked upon themselves as dead men, but providence so ordered it, that the Sea was a safe passage to Israel, and a sepulcher to Pharaoh and all his host.…

I will correct you in measure. God will in the day of his east wind stay his rough wind (Isaiah 27:8). The physician that understands the constitution and temper of the patient, will not give too strong medicine for the body nor will he give one dram or scruple too much.

Answ. (1.) Peace is made for all that believe. (2.) The way of attaining it is laid open to them (Isaiah 27:5). (3.) Patient abiding in faith will in due time bring them into this peace.

They therefore do but deceive their own souls, who trust to peace with God on the mediation of Christ, who are not at peace with God in their own souls by repentance; for the one is not without the other. As he who is at peace with God on his own part by repentance, shall never…

[〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], is to give light or knowledge by teaching; the same with [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] which therefore is so translated oft-times by the Greeks. As by Aquila (Exodus 4:12; Psalm 119:33; Proverbs 4:4; Isaiah 27:11) as Drustus observes. And it is so by t…

But I must not too far digress. The command of God, the love and care of Christ towards his Church, the ends of God's patience and long-suffering, the future manifestation of his glory in the salvation of believers and the condemnation of those that are disobedient, the necessit…

Afflictions do not fall out by chance, but by counsel (Job 5:6; Ephesians 1:11). By this counsel of God they are ordained as means of much spiritual good to saints (Isaiah 27:9): 'By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged.' Hebrews 12:10: 'But he for our profit.'

Some of them shall you scourge in your Synagogues, which suppose it were not meant of the executing and inflicting of the punishment upon them, but only as some would have it, of passing the sentence, yet this will not help them, for still it was a civil and secular use of the p…

Yes, there is a promise of taking away their sins, when the Lord shall take away their idols. Isaiah 27:9: By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit, to take away his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are…

God is a golden shield to his people, and a flaming sword to his enemies, Zach. 2. 5. For I saith the Lord will be unto her a wall of fire round about. A wall, That is defensive; a wall of fire that is offensive, Isa. 27. 2. In that day sing ye unto her a Vineyard, of red wine,…

And what fruit indeed is there brought forth to God in the world but by his Churches? and God expects much fruitfulness among his people; however, as you shall hear, they are charged with being empty. Thirdly, no plant requires so great care as the Vine; what a deal of do is the…

Oh! this (I say) is the evil of our hearts, it comes from our fullenness, frowardness, and unbelief ever so to conclude, it may be God intends only to prune you and to take away superfluities, that so the sap may go down more at the root, that you may have more humility, and sel…

They rendered the interpretation of the word, not the word itself. That this was their custom, Jerome observes, on Isaiah 27:12, where on the contrary they render a Hebrew word by "Rhinocurura." "For the stream of Egypt," he says, "the LXX (Septuagint) translated 'Rhinocurura,'…

XVIII. From peculiar characteristics, or from their peculiar imaginary use, idols have received certain names. XIX. Of this kind is the term rendered "They shall not stand — the groves and the sun-images," Isaiah 27:9. LXX.: idols.

The second is (Hosea 4): My people perish for want of knowledge. The third is (Isaiah 27): This is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them, will have no mercy upon them. Think not then little of ignorance, neither think yourselves to be well, so long as you liv…

Or what just reason can there be to be dissatisfied with, or to complain of God's giving to, and ordering that for us, whereof we stand in need, and which we cannot want without being considerably prejudiced and worsted by the want? Sixthly, if it be considered, that in all your…

(Job 7:21), "And why do you not pardon my iniquity, and take away my transgression?" (Isaiah 27:9), "This is all the fruit, to take away his sin" — this cannot be the potential and ineffectual removing of sin, common to all the world, but proper to the Church, and brought to pas…

He prays like a king, who is in joint commission with God. If God puts that honor upon our prayers, that we are said to have power with God, as Jacob (Hosea 12:3) — that if God be never so angry, yet by taking hold of his strength, we hold his hands (Isaiah 27:5) — that God crie…

What punishment is sufficient for the least of our offenses, committed against his infinite Majesty? This ought therefore to be referred to the mercies of God, that he always smiting in measure, as it is in (Isaiah 27:8), will give them no more blows, neither yet continue them a…

Song of Solomon 8:11, 12. Isaiah 27:2, 3. And therefore every Thing in a true Christian is calculated to reach this End.

Your poverty does but clog your pride; reproaches clog your ambition: want prevents wantonness: sickness of body conduces to the prevention of many inward gripes of conscience, and groans under guilt. The Providences of God may be observed to conduce to our holiness, not only by…

A Well of water is discovered to Hagar, just when she had let the Child, as not able to see its death, Genesis 21. 16, 19. Rabshakh meets with a blasting Providence, hears a rumour that frustrated his design, just when ready to give the shock against Jerusalem, Isaiah 27. 7, 8.…

One Word of God can do more, than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. If Providence have at any time directed you to such Promises, as either assure you that the Lord will be with you in trouble, Psalm 91:15 or that encourage you from inward peace, to bear ch…

If, as some expound it, the hedge be the Law of God, then the Serpent is the remorse of Conscience, and the sharp teeth of affliction, which he shall quickly feel, if he be one that belongs to God. The design and aim of these afflictive Providences, is to purge and cleanse them…

To some all Providences are over-ruled and ordered for good, according to that blessed Promise, Romans 8:28 not only things that are good in themselves, as Ordinances, Graces, Duties and Mercies; but things that are evil in themselves, as Temptations, Afflictions, and even their…

God will not continue his course of physic, to them one day beyond health recovered. This is all the fruit of their afflictions; to take away their iniquities (Isaiah 27:9), and when that is done, who shall keep bound what God will loose? When sin is taken away from within, trou…

Secondly, though God be a merciful God, yet God's saving mercy is not so large as to extend to all creatures that live, that he has made. You read (Isaiah 27:11): This is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not have mercy upon them, and he that formed…

His eyes are always open upon them. They are never out of his heart, nor thoughts; they are engraven on the palms of his hand, and their walls are continually before him; or as he expresses it (Isaiah 27:3), I the Lord do keep my Vineyard, I will water it every moment, lest any…

But many tokens they have of it when it does come; for they heap up, out of some allegorical passages in the Scripture, such stupendous prodigies as never were nor shall be in the world. One of the principal of them is the sounding of the great trumpet which all Israel shall hea…

These they called [in non-Latin alphabet] the dispersion or scattering of Israel, when they were sifted among all nations, like the sifting of a sieve (Amos 9:9). In Psalm 147:2 they are called [in non-Latin alphabet], which the LXX, according to the phrase in their days, render…

Satan has a boundless malice against the people of God. Some observe this from his name Leviathan (Isaiah 27:1). In that day the Lord with his great and strong Sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing Serpent.

It is not enough that we be prisoners of hope, but we must turn to our strong hold, Zechariah 9:12. not enough that we are weary and laden, but we must come to him, Matthew 11:27, 28. It will not suffice that we are weak, and know we are weak, but we must take hold on the streng…

Were there no more mercy, grace, Compassion, to be shewed in this case, than it is possible should be treasured up in the heart of a man, it would be impossible that Ephraim should be spared; But says he, I am God and not Man; Consider the infinite largeness, bounty, and goodnes…

All that wait on God on the account of mercy and grace shall have an undoubted Issue of peace. He shall redeem Israel; let him says God lay hold of my Arm, that he may have peace, and he shall have peace, Isaiah 27:3. Obs.

They are called so, 1. For their feebleness in themselves (Ezekiel 15:2-3, etc.), yet excelling in fruit beyond others. 2. Because of God's separating them from others, and taking pains on them above all others (Isaiah 27:2-3); for these, and other reasons, they are called the v…

Believers have a notable security and defense, Christ's bed and his guard, if he be sure, they are sure, one watch watches both him and her. The same power of God (Isaiah 27:2), the twenty thousand of Angels, which are his Chariots (Psalm 68:17), are for the believer's protectio…

Next, this garden is enclosed: it is a special property of gardens to be so; to be enclosed is by a wall or hedge to be fenced from the trampling and eating-up of beasts, and also from the hazard of winds: so (Isaiah 5:2) the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts (which is his Church) i…

O then labor to pacify his anger, you cannot fly from him, O then fly to him; you cannot stand in his sight when he is angry, O then fall down at his feet; make peace with this adversary, while you are upon the way, before he deliver you to the officer death, and cast you into t…

"Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land." The glorious times which are approaching, are as it were the church's jubilee, which shall be intr…

GOd having to do in a way of correction with divers sorts of offenders, does not use the like severity with them all, but proportions his correction to their abilities and strength, Ier. 30. 11. I will not make a full end of you, but will [correct you in measure] and will not le…

He sets a guard of angels to encamp round about them that fear him (Psalm 34:7), and will not trust them with a single guard of angels neither, though their power be great, and love to the saints as great. But he watches over them himself also (Isaiah 27:2-3): "Sing to her, a vi…

But I insist not here, though this also affords matter of awful consideration. 2. With respect to the time to come: and then to stand in God's sight, intends to enjoy his special favor and love, and we have this infelicity expounded in Isaiah 27:11, and there are two seasons whe…

As if God had no other way to show himself merciful, but by saving sinners in their sins; whereas we are told that Christ's great design is to save them from their sins (Matthew 1:21). Hence we have God using that sarcasm (Isaiah 27:4): Fury is not in me: who would set the briar…

5. There are some personal influences upon a single man that are more private, which are very desirable: but there be some more public influences on the Church; so the Lord walks in the midst of the golden candlesticks, and raines down ministerial blessings on his Church, holds…

So Christ speaks to the Spirit (Canticles 4:16): Awake O North-wind, and come you South, blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. So there is a commission given that the Spirit in its efficacy blow upon the plants and flowers that grow there; the Church is also…