Isaiah 37

This holy sympathy and grieving, when God's name suffers, God esteems an honoring and sanctifying his name. Hezekiah grieved when the king of Assyria reproached the living God (Isaiah 37:17): he went into his chamber, and spread the letter of blasphemy before the Lord (2 Kings 1…

Since then this is his design in all the chastisements inflicted on his own people, and since he only by his grace can make it infrustrably take effect, let him have our hearty allowance and approbation to carry it on vigorously and successfully, and let us pray more frequently…

It is considerable that in this manner of death, Christ will hold forth to us, that the dying of Christ is in a special manner a leaving of the earth; So Hezekiah (Isaiah 37:11), I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world, that is, I must leave the earth, and s…

This superadded glory and happiness of Christ is enlarged and increased, still as his members come to have the purchase of his death more and more laid forth upon them: so as when their sins are pardoned, their hearts more sanctified, and their spirits comforted, then he comes t…

When Sennacherib King of Assyria reviled Jerusalem and Hezekiah the king, what says the Lord? O virgin daughter of Zion, he has despised you, and laughed you to scorn: O daughter of Jerusalem, he has shaken his head at you. Whom have you railed on, and blasphemed? and against wh…

For all these he uses and applyes at his Pleasure to do his will and execute his Judgments. Thus One of those Angels slew an whole Host of men in one Night, Isa. 37. 36. And it is said that the Stars in their Courses fought against Sisera, Judg. 5. 20.

And it is stirred especially when the ear of a man is filled with a voice of blasphemy, or his eye with a spectacle of bold transcendent wickedness against the Lord. Word being brought to Hezekiah of the blasphemy that Rabshakeh had belched out against God, when he heard how he…

If we would not hurt ourselves, blessed be God no enemy in the world can hurt us. Let us but keep the peace within, by the governing of our own passions, and then whatever assaults may be made upon us, we may therein, with the daughter of Zion, despise them, and laugh them to sc…

Do they talk of running down religion, and the Scriptures, and the ordinances of Christ? The virgin daughter of Zion has despised them, and laughed them to scorn, the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at them (Isaiah 37:22); and has therefore put them to shame, because G…

You think you have to do only with a company of poor weak creatures that are not able to right themselves; but know, you have to do with Christ himself. Mark that expression we have in Isa. 37:23 it is spoken concerning Rabshekah, Whom hast you reproached? it is not against Heze…

He that hates the lantern for the light's sake hates the light much more; he that hates the faithful because of the image of God and the grace that appears there hates the God of all grace and holiness most of all. So God to Sennacherib (Isaiah 37:28): I know your going out and…

And another fool said: Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, (Isaiah 36:16). And this mad-nothing is above God, (Isaiah 37:10) Let not your God in whom you trust deceive you. The tyrant of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of the river said, My…

Our turning away our eye from the Covenant is the cause why we succumb; Christ, under his sorest assault with hell and hell's pursuivants and officers, devils, and the felt anger of a forsaking God, doubles his grips on the Covenant, my God, my God (Psalm 22:1) (Matthew 27), O m…

From whom as all things take their beginning, so is it fitting that they have also their end appointed and directed to him. There is no man (I say) but he ought to be seized to embrace the lawmaker, to the keeping of whose commandments, he is taught that he is peculiarly chosen:…

Consider of all the sins you have committed; you must not bear off the weapon, as the manner of some is, or look at him that strikes as our enemy, but lay we down all quarreling contestation against the word, and stand not fencing against God, but keep it close to your hearts, t…