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…

Christ says he could pray for twelve legions in an instant (Matthew 26:53); now a legion in the least computation is six thousand foot and seven hundred horse. They are able, they excel in strength; one angel slew 185,000 in one night (Isaiah 37:36). They are always ready attend…

As straw troden for the dunghill. Eighthly, they are compared sometimes to a beast that has a hook in his nostrils, in Isaiah 37:20. God will put a hook in his nostrils; now who would be afraid of a beast that has a hook put into his nostrils?

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.

What creature has not this mighty God used against his enemies? An angel destroys Sennacherib's host (Isaiah 37:36), and smites Herod with worms (Acts 12:23). Heaven above sends down a hell of fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24).

The thing itself in its existence it is true cannot be made so a sign; but it may in the promise and prediction of it. And many instances we have of things promised for signs, which were not to exist in themselves, until after the accomplishment of the things whereof they were s…

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…

It's ever true (John 3:8), The wind blows where it lists. The more angel-like and the more spiritual pride is, such as is angel-haughtiness in the damned spirits who were not content with their own station, and in Eve, the more sinful guiltiness is in it; pride resulting from ac…

O they were guilty of original sin, yes and so were Moses, David, Samuel, Noah, Job, and Daniel when they were in the womb and weeping on the breasts. 7. Sovereignty determines what is just; righteous Abel dies in blood, godly Josiah in war, many bloody men smile out their soul…

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:…

He himself while he lived wrote it, and had perfected it before his death; I have but only raised it out of his private study to the public use of God's Church. The children, said Hezekiah, are come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth (Isaiah 37:3). Thus it far…

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…

Such in regard of outward power were Goliath, and Sennacherib. Intolerable is this presumption, even in outward strength: note their end (1 Samuel 17:50 and Isaiah 37:36-38). But more than most intolerable in spiritual strength, of which we have not one dram in ourselves, but in…

This cannot be understood of Christ, because Paul in his other writings does not call the person of Christ by this name, and therefore must be understood of the word of the Gospel, the power of which is described (Romans 1:16). (6.) See these following places of Scripture: Psalm…

For they do not look upon the Word as their Rule, seeing (as they dream) they have a Light within them, beyond that more sure Word of Prophecy, which the Apostle Peter prefers to a voice from Heaven. Indeed, they have so little veneration for the Scriptures, that they will not s…