Isaiah 32

A sign he has no money about him, who fears not to travel all hours in the night; a sign he has not the jewel of assurance, who fears not the works of darkness. 3. True assurance is built upon a Scripture-basis; the Word says, The effect of righteousness shall be quietness and a…

A Christian's work for Heaven is like a bridegroom's work on the morning of the marriage day, he puts on his garments and wedding robes, in which he shall be married to his Bride; so in all the duties of religion we are putting on those wedding robes, in which we shall be marrie…

But I do not so conceive, that every Christian as soon as ever his sin is first pardoned, has such an inconceivable peace in his soul; but he finds a great deal of ease sometimes, as if you had thrown a millstone from off his body. Notable is that expression in (Isaiah 32:17), T…

Well, whatever the corrupt practices of men be, let us learn our duty, to go forward without weariness, nay to do good with cheerfulness, as Paul says of himself (Philippians 3), forgetting that which is behind, and endeavoring himself to that which is before. Let us consider th…

In the 47th chapter of this book, he said to Babylon: Come down, and sit in the dust. And in (Isaiah 32:18) he said of the Jews themselves: My people shall sit in the dust: and yet on the contrary, in (Isaiah 52:1-2) he says: Arise, arise, O Zion, put on the garments of your bea…

Christians are spoken of as those that have fled for Refuge, to lay hold on the Hope set before them, Hebrews 6:18, which Representation implies great Fear, and Sense of Danger preceding. To the like Purpose, Christ is called a hiding Place from the Wind, and a Covert from the T…

For he calles none to him, but those who in some measure are weary or thirsty, or one way or other seek after Deliverance. The whole he tells us, that is, those who so conceit themselves, have no need of a Physician, they will neither enquire after him nor care to go to him when…

Why, when you see all the kindness and love they have shown the saints returned with an Overplus into their bosoms; how is it possible, but you must see the accomplishment of these Scriptures in such Providences? Isaiah 32:8 2 Corinthians 9:6 The liberal soul deviseth liberal th…

The Word tells us, that there is no such way to improve our Estates, as to lay them out with a cheerful liberality for God; and that our withholding our hands, when God and duty calls to distribute, will not be for our advantage. See Proverbs 11:25 Isaiah 32:8 Proverbs 19:17 Pro…

In quietness and confidence, says he, shall be your strength, Isaiah 30:15. And the effect of the righteousness of God by Christ, is said to be Quietness and assurance for ever, Isaiah 32:17. First Quietness, and then assurance.

This was not given her before, it's now prefixed to this commendation in general, to usher in all that follows, and to make it the more gaining on her affection. The word in the first language is, Na[illegible]ib, which signifies a bounteous prince, or, one of a princely disposi…

And thus many careless women in the city have lived in ease and idleness from one end of the week, and one end of the year to another. But I think the Lord has by his terrible things in London, spoken to them much in the same language as he did (Isaiah 32:9-11). Rise up, you wom…

Great knowledge shall prevail everywhere. It may be hoped, that then many of the Negroes and Indians will be divines, and that excellent books will be published in Africa, in Ethiopia, in Tartary, and other new and most barbarous countries and not only learned men, but others of…

Days of affliction, and distress are hastening on apace, If now I live in carelessness; how sad will be my case! (Zephaniah 2:2-3) Unworthy of the name of man who for that soul of yours; Will not do that which others can do for their very kine. (Isaiah 32:9) Think frugal farmers…

Happy is that minister, whose lot falls in such a pleasant valley. Blessed are they that sow beside all such waters, that send forth there the feet of the ox and the ass (Isaiah 32:20). Among these valleys run the pleasant springs, and purling brooks, which fertilize the neighbo…

The greatest comfort and happiness of man is sometimes set forth by quietness. That peace of conscience which Christ has left for a legacy to his disciples, that present sabbatism of the soul, which is an earnest of the rest that remains for the people of God, is called, quietne…

Yes, who can express the joy of a soul safe shadowed from wrath, under the covert of the righteousness of the Lord Jesus? There is also refreshment in a shade from weariness: he is as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land (Isaiah 32:2). From the power of corruptions, troubl…

They have abiding peace with God. Hence is that description of Christ to a poor soul, Isaiah 32:2: a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Wind and tempest an…

And this was the chief expression of his communication under the Old Testament, the mystery of the Father and the Son, and the matter of commission and delegation being then not so clearly discovered. Isaiah 32:15: until the Spirit be poured on us from on high, and the wildernes…

In fact, when they cannot disengage themselves from these thoughts in God's worship, their hearts go away in covetousness (Ezekiel 33:31). Or else thoughts by way of contrivance (Isaiah 32:7-8): The liberal man devises liberal things, and the wicked man devises wicked devices. T…

1. In the general, of peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 1. Peace, which is the natural result of the rectitude of our actions: The fruit of righteousness is peace (Isaiah 32:17). And (Psalm 119:165): Great peace have they that love your law, and nothing shall offen…

Let me instance in the benefits that believers find by walking with God in a course of obedience, that every one can say, This I had because I kept your precepts. First, peace of conscience, a blessing not to be valued, and this we have because we keep his precepts (Isaiah 32:17…

God charges us to fill the hungry (Isaiah 58:10). He blames those who do not fill the hungry (Isaiah 32:6). And do we think he will be slack in that which he blames us for not doing?

He that believes on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water, but this he spoke of the Spirit. The Spirit is like water, not only to make the soul fruitful, (for it causes the desert to blossom as the rose, Isaiah 32:15; Isaiah 35:1), but the Spirit is like water t…

Mine heritage is to me as a speckled bird, or a pied bird, and has cast off my simple livery, and so is a bird of many sundry colors: the hypocrite is dyed and watered with a hue and color of godliness. Coneph notes hypocrisy (Isaiah 32:6), from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 simulav…

But the same sort of Persons have thoughts of this nature arising from themselves only, their own dispositions and inclinations, without any outward Provocations. The vile Person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, Isa. 32:6. And this he does as the liberal dev…

The honey of the promises, and the oil of gladness comes out of this blessed rock. 5. Christ is compared to a river in a dry ground, Isaiah 32.2. When by nature we are as a scorched heath, dry and barren, Christ sends forth the sacred influences of his Blood and Spirit, making u…

So was it with Abraham in the business of a Son: and so with David in the matter of a Kingdom. God will have his Promised Mercies to fall, as the Dews upon the parched gasping Earth; or as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary Land, Isaiah 32. 2. very welcome unto the Traveler,…

For example, would a man rise? his thoughts study the art of it, men frame their own ladder to climb with, invent ways how to do it, though often it proves as to Haman their own gallows. Would they be rich? what do they study? even all cheats and tricks of the cards (as I may so…

It is the chief happiness for men in these days to live under means of grace, yet a wicked man when all about him relish of uprightness, yet he will there do wickedly, and all this is, because he will not behold the majesty of the Lord, he thinks not that Christ is there; consid…

Joel 2:28. as are also other words of the same importance which we render by pouring out, as Proverbs 1:23. Isaiah 32:15. Chapter 44:3.

It is agreeable to God's manner of working, when he accomplishes any glorious work in the world, to introduce a new and more excellent state of his church, to begin his work where his church had not been till then, and where was no foundation already laid, that the power of God…

And the remarkable blessing that God has given Mr. Whitefield, and the great success with which he has crowned him, may well be thought to be very much owing to his laying out himself so abundantly in charitable designs. And it is foretold, that God's people shall abound in this…