Isaiah 4

The children of Israel were traveling from Egypt to the land of Canaan full forty years, whereas they might have gone the journey in forty days. Their way was through the wilderness of Arabia, their guides were a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night (Isaiah 4:5)…

2. There is a providence of grace, as there is in God a special love of free grace; the good and the bad figs are not in the same invisible basket; there is a pavilion, a cabinet of silk in God's private chamber, seen by no eye (Psalm 27:5). And upon all the glory shall be a cov…

2. God does nothing in the election of Peter, more than of Judas; nor can grace and mercy have place in the choosing of the one, rather than the other; but as free will is foreseen to play the game ill, or well, so go the eternal decrees of election and reprobation, and there ca…

This the Prophets foretold that he should be God, and the Son of God (Micah 5:2). His going forth is from everlasting, though born at Bethlehem; so the bud of the Lord, and the fruit of the earth (Isaiah 4:2). The man God's fellow (Zechariah 13:7), and in many other places the u…

This garment serues not onely for a couering of our shame, but also for protection. Isa 4:6. And if we be taken away in any common judgment, being clothed with Christ, there is no more hurt done to vs then to him: and he carris vs in his brest, as if we were part of his bowells.

Hence the Lord Jesus Christ in his Work by his Spirit is at once compared to a Refiners Fire and to Fullers Sope, Mal. 3. 2, 3. because of the purging purifying Qualities that are in Fire and Water. And the Holy Ghost is expresly called a Spirit of Burning, Isa. 4. 4. For by him…

Rom. 8. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 1 Cor. 6. 11. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Isa. 4. 4. chap. 44. 3, 4. Titus 3. 4, 5.

Doth God miraculously suspend the power of natural Causes, as in the first Demand was opened? Why, this is no accidental thing, but what harmonizeth with the word, Isaiah 4:3 2. When you passest through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overf…

In the fire there was direction, in the cloud protection, and mercy in both. So (Isaiah 4:5), God promises to create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies a cloud. Which is expounded in the close of the verse: For upon all his glory (his Church and Sai…

In the exhortation or invitation, consider: 1. the party invited, or called. 2. The duty called for. 3. Its repetition. The party called, is a Shulamite: this word comes either from Solomon, as the husband's name is named over the wife (Isaiah 4:1), and it is from the same root…

It seems to be a prophecy of the greater purity of those who are visibly in Covenant with God. Isaiah 4:3. And it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living [that is, ha…

No inheritance is better defended and secured than the Lord's inheritance (Psalm 125:2): "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people." So careful is he for their safety, that he creates upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her…

What is there in them, or amongst them, that makes joining with them to be so desireable? First, that point we handled before, might be enough to show the reason of this: they are the excellent of the earth, Isaiah 43:4 I do not now speak of them particularly, though every Saint…

Inward beauty and glory is here expressed by that of outward shape, form and appearance; because that was so much esteemed in those who were to rule or govern. Isaiah 4:2. The Prophet terming of him the BRANCH of the Lord, and the fruit of the earth, affirms that he shall be bea…

Because he is the wisdom of God, and the power of God, he is made unto us wisdom, and so on (1 Corinthians 1:30). Thus the branch of the Lord is beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth is excellent, and comely to them that are escaped of Israel (Isaiah 4:2). This is t…

2. By a real, physical efficiency on the root and habit of sin, for the weakening, destroying and taking it away. Hence he is called a Spirit of judgment and burning (Isaiah 4:4), really consuming and destroying our lusts. He takes away the stony heart by an almighty efficiency;…

But poor creatures! they labor in the fire, and their work consumes. When the Spirit of Christ comes to this work, he will be as refiner's fire, and as fuller's soap, and he will purge men as gold and silver (Malachi 3:3), take away their dross and tin, their filth and blood (Is…

In short, the Word of God assures us of the gracious presence of God here in the midst of our afflictions, and the eternal enjoyment of God hereafter; that he will be with us in our houses of clay, or we shall shortly be with him in his palace of glory; and so here is matter of…

2. When he loses his comfort and confidence in God, for that is a sign we live upon the creature, and cannot trust God without the creature. Man knows how to put a cheat upon his own heart; when he has all things at full, then he talks of living by faith: as those women who woul…

All that nature can reach to us, is to see the nobility of my birth, the honest civility of my parents, etc., but faith sees his father was a Moabite, and his mother an Ammonite, born in sin, and this he lays hold on, and takes it home for his good, and walks in the sense thereo…