Isaiah 35

The duller the scholar, the more is his skill seen that teaches. Hence it is, Christ delights in teaching the ignorant, to get himself more glory (Isaiah 35:5). The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Holiness is the root which bears this sweet fruit of peace: righteousness and peace kiss each other. 8. Holiness leads to heaven: Holiness is the King of Heaven's highway (Isaiah 35:8), a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the way of holiness. At Rome there was the t…

The torments of the damned are for ever (Revelation 14:11). The smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: the wicked shall drink a sea of wrath, but God's children only taste of the cup of affliction, and their heavenly Father will say, transeat calix, let this cup pa…

The wicked must drink a sea of wrath, but the godly have only a cup of affliction (Isaiah 51:17), and God will say, Let this cup pass away. Affliction may be compared to frost, it will break and spring flowers will come on (Isaiah 35): Sorrow and sighing shall fly away. Afflicti…

So (Deuteronomy 10:20): "You shall fear the Lord your God, and serve him." Christ expounds it (Luke 4:8) exclusively: "You shall serve only the Lord," because it is the prerogative of God to be worshipped, as it is a prerogative of grace to be the ransomed and redeemed of God (D…

Let Favour be showed to the Wicked, yet will he not learn Righteousness; in the Land of Uprightness will he deal unjustly. Isaiah 35:8. And an Highway shall be there, and a Way, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness, the Unclean shall not pass over it.

Sect. 2 1. The plentiful Effusion of the Spirit is that which was principally prophesied of, and foretold as the great Priviledg and Pre-eminence of the Gospel-Church State; This was that good Wine which was kept until the last; This all Prophets bear witness to, see Isa. 35. 7.…

Wherefore God has in infinite Wisdom so ordered the Dispensation of his Love and Grace to Believers, that all of them living upon the continual supplyes of his Spirit none may have cause on the one hand to faint or despond, nor Occasion on the other to self-confidence, or Elatio…

It was profitable for cedar-wood, and sweet in smell by the flowers that grew on it (verse 11 and Hosea 14:6). It was on the north side of Canaan, a stately place (Isaiah 35:1). Therefore Solomon built his dwelling for pleasure there in the forest of Lebanon, as some conceive, t…

The first part of verse 5 contains the ninth and tenth particulars, that are commended in the Bride: The ninth is her head; It looks here to be taken for the uppermost part of the head (from which sense and motion do flow) as being distinct from eyes and nose; therefore it is sa…

The same will be the case with respect to those countries which have never yet been discovered. Thus will be gloriously fulfilled that in Isaiah 35:1, "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them: and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose." See also…

The rose for sweetness, and the lily for beauty (Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these) have the preeminence. Further he is the Rose of Sharon, a fruitful plain, where the choicest herds were fed (1 Chronicles 27:29), so eminent that it is promised to the chur…

The whole fabric of it is glorious, Isaiah 54:11-14. The way of the house is a way of holiness through which the unclean shall not pass, Isaiah 35:8. Expressly they are the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty, and they only, 2 Corinthians 6:17-18.

Hence is the conclusion, as in the way of exultation: surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. Of this effect of the Comforter, see Isaiah 35 throughout. 4. Hope also is an effect of those workings of the Holy Ghost in us, and towards us (Romans 15:13).

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fail; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint (Isaiah 40:29-31). He can make th…

This Remark is much confirmed by that Promise which assures us that it should be so in Gospel-times. The High way to Heaven is so plain, that the wayfaring Men, or Strangers, though they be Fools in Understanding, shall not err therein, Isaiah 35:8. A Man that labors in his dail…

Amen. Portion of Scripture read before sermon—Isaiah 35 and Hebrews 12:1-13. Hymns from “Our Own Hymn Book”—241, 210, 126.

2. Directly, and by way of express charge, the Scripture requires us to moderate our sorrow, to cast all our care upon God, to look above temporal things; and has expressly forbidden distracting cares, and doubts, and inordinate sorrows (1 Peter 5:7): Cast all your care upon God…

For without holiness no man shall ever see the Lord. Now this way of sanctification is a very narrow way, for it lies over the neck of every lust, and in the exercise of every grace, subduing the one, and improving the other; dying daily, and yet living daily, dying to sin and l…

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…

Though persecution has a sting to torment, yet it has a wing to fly. Sorrow shall fly away (Isaiah 35:10); it is but a little while when the saints shall have a grant of ease given them — they shall weep no more, suffer no more. They shall be taken off the torturing rack and lai…

The way of religion is strewn with roses; oh the bunches of grapes that God cuts down, the flagons of wine that he gives to those that turn their feet into this way! The way of God's commandments is a clean way; it is a way paved with holiness (Isaiah 35:6). Christians may run i…

While we are waiting, let us take heed of wavering. Go not a step out of God's way, though a lion be in the way, avoid not duty to meet with safety: keep God's highway, the good old way (Jeremiah 6:16), the way which is paved with holiness (Isaiah 35:8), and a highway shall be t…

Be strong and couragious. So, Isaiah 35:4. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong: or, unite all the powers of your souls, and muster up your whole force, you will have use of all you can make or get.

Micah 6:6, 7. Isaiah 35:4. Hebrews 6:18.

And he said to me, “This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended: it is the descent where the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin does continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condit…

The earth mourns and fades away, the world mourns, languishes and fades away. See also Psalm 98:8, Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 35:1-2, Isaiah 49:13, Leviticus 18:28, etc. Now rejoicing, shouting for joy, singing, breaking forth into singing, clapping of hands, crying out, answering, mou…

Ans. So are we in regard of right of purchase, saved before we believe; yet that does not hinder, but faith is a way to salvation. 2. This concludes that good works are no cause, or way, or means of obtaining the right (jus) of purchase to redemption, which we yield, but not tha…

Justice was to run through the elect of God in the due and legal punishing of the sinner (which yet is extraneous to the just and eternal will of God), but infinite wise mercy caused that river to run in another vein, through the soul of Jesus Christ. 7. Proposition: Joy of the…