Isaiah 42

The creature's honor is not essential to his being; a king is a man without his regal ornaments, when his crown and royal robe are taken away: but God's glory is such an essential part of his being, that he cannot be God without it; God's very life lies in his glory. His glory c…

This [non-Latin text], or divine worship, is the peculiar honor that belongs to the Godhead. This God is jealous of, and will have no creature share in (Isaiah 42:8): My glory will I not give to another. Magistrates may have a civil respect or veneration, God only a religious ad…

It is vain for Papists to say they give God the worship of the heart, and the image only the worship of the body; for the worship of the body is due to God, as well as the worship of the heart, and to give an outward veneration to an image, is to give that adoration to a creatur…

Divine worship is the fat of the sacrifice which God reserves for himself. The idolater devotes this worship to his idol, which the Lord will by no means endure (Isaiah 42:8). My glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

They are his spouse, adorned with the jewels of grace: They lie near to his heart. He is jealous for his spouse, therefore will be avenged on them who go to wrong her (Isaiah 42:13). The Lord shall stir up jealousy like a man of war; he shall roar, he shall prevail against his e…

So I may say of God's glory, what has he more? God's glory is the most orient pearl of his crown, which he will not part with (Isaiah 42:8): "My glory will I not give to another." God's glory is more worth than heaven, more worth than the salvation of all men's souls; better kin…

God therefore voluntarily accepted of this; and how could he but accept of it since it was his own contrivance and he proposed it to the Son, and he came about the work to do his Father's will in it (Psalm 40:7). And he has given his testimony to this acceptance of his (Isaiah 4…

Q. Who gave Christ a commission or calling to the office of a Mediator? A. As no man can lawfully intrude himself into any office without a lawful calling, no more did Christ intrude himself into the office of a Mediator, but was lawfully called and authorized thereunto by the F…

In a word, God accepts soundness of faith, though it be but small, and more looks at (in his mercy) a man's little faith, than his many faults. He will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax, Isaiah 42:3. When a man is broken in heart, and dejected in soul, in s…

Concerning all these Sacrifices it is added, [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], you had no pleasure. In opposition hereunto, God gives Testimony from Heaven concerning the Lord Christ and his undertaking; This is my Beloved Son, [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], In whom I am well pleased (…

It is a work of the Spirit to give us eyes: we have much light in the word, but alas we want eyes: sin and Satan has put out our eyes, and blinded us (2 Corinthians 4:4). And it is the work of the Spirit to open the blind eyes (see Isaiah 42:7). And if your faith be right, it wi…

David says, that the Lord has compassion on all them that fear him, as a father has compassion on his children (Psalm 103:13-14): and he adds the reason, For he knows of what we are made. And the prophet Isaiah, He will not break the bruised reed, and smoking flax he will not qu…

I answer: they are spiritual chains, suitable to the spiritual nature of angels: such as these, 1. Guilt of conscience, which binds them over to judgement; the consciences of wicked angels know that they are adjudged to damnation for their sin; this is a sure chain, for it faste…

For though a desire to repent and to believe is not faith and repentance in nature, yet in God's acceptance it is, God accepting the will for the deed. Isaiah 42:3: Christ will not quench the smoking flax, which as yet by reason of weakness gives neither light nor heat. Christ s…

And these things we may certainly and sensibly perceive in ourselves: and when we find them in us, though our unworthiness be exceeding great, it should not hinder our assurance. For God makes manifest his power in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12), and he will not break the bruis…

As if Christ should say, The Lord will rather withdraw his power from the upholding of Heaven and Earth, than from making good any one jot or tittle of his Law; you may think it a little matter to break God's Law, but God thinks it a great matter, and God would have us to make a…

The removal of those would wonderfully prepare the way for Christ and his armies, to go forward and prevail against their enemies, in a glorious propagation of true religion. So that this Vial, which is to prepare the way for Christ and his people, seems to have respect to that…

LXX., "a carved image, any likeness." XIV. With respect to material and form they are called by a term meaning "carved images"; for this is an image or likeness hewn from stone, wood, or any other material, Exodus 20:4; Leviticus 26:1; Judges 18:17; Isaiah 42:17. The LXX renders…

Furthermore: that this most holy author of our theology communicated to His disciples — who were to propagate His doctrine to all nations — that entire counsel of God, the knowledge of which He had most perfectly obtained, partly by His living voice and partly through the Spirit…

Furthermore: the things that are said on the one hand about all the unregenerate, and on the other about the communication of this theology, are such as to exclude them entirely from all communion with it; they cry out, indeed: "Every one of you is a stranger." They are "blind,"…

1. An humiliation, and inferiority, in respect of God, as it is said (Philippians 2), he humbled himself, and became of no reputation; in which respect, he himself says, that the Father is greater than he; and that he is sent, that he came not to do his own will, but the will of…

Three material circumstances in crosses are very considerable: Quis, quare, quomodo — who, for what cause, and how. 1. Who afflicts is worthy to be known (Isaiah 42:24). Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?

The Father after his death made him a great prince, and gave him a name above all names, and set him at the right hand of the Majesty of God: 2. And if the Lord shall say to sinful men, Well done, good servant, enter into the joy of your Lord; far more, being infinitely satisfie…

Moses's Law was published from Sinai, not from Zion; but the preaching of the Gospel began at Jerusalem, and from there was spread over all the world. Again it is said (Isaiah 42:4), 'The Isles shall wait for his Law'; that is, the maritime countries. I pursue it no farther now.

He was owned as a Son (Psalm 2:7): You are my Son, this day have I begotten you. As a beloved Son, in whom God is well-pleased (Isaiah 42:1): Behold my servant whom I uphold, my elect in whom my soul delights. If you be not wanting to yourselves, you may have this witness in you…

Our worship and service is due to him, not only for his supereminent excellency; but because of our creation, preservation and redemption. Therefore we must worship and serve him, and him only (Isaiah 42:8). I am the Lord, that is my name, and my glory will I not give to another…

Isa 40:11. He will not quench the smoaking flaxe, Isa. 42. he spares them that feare him, as a father spares his child. Malach. 3. 17.

Let us then reject these proud speeches so full of blasphemies, as: I have done this by my power; I have directed this by my wisdom; I have brought such a thing to pass by my industry. For the Lord is a jealous God (Exodus 20:5), and cannot abide to give his glory to another (Is…

"He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench," (Isaiah 42:2, 3.) On account of this mildness of Christ, by which he kindly and gently called, and every day invites, sinn…

He who is offended by the low condition of Christ, which God declares to be agreeable to his will, is unworthy of salvation. I now come to examine the words of the prophet, (Isaiah 42:1.) 18. Lo, my servant, whom I have chosen.

“Veu qu’ils n’esperoyent point de sentir aucun secours de sa vertu;” — “since they did not hope to experience any relief from his power.” But that he may not quench the smoking flax, (Isaiah 42:3,) he accommodates himself to their ignorance. Yet there is nothing here that lends…

Tell me, what is the meaning of that stern reply? How comes it that he who so mildly on all occasions guarded against breaking even a bruised reed, (Isaiah 42:3,) thunders so dismally against a chosen disciple? The reason is obvious, that in the person of one man he intended to…

Christ now puts himself in the place of the Father, and undertakes to perform the promise; in which he again claims for himself divine power. To invest feeble men with heavenly power, is a part of that glory which God swears that he will not give to another: and, therefore, if i…

at the same time swears that he will not give his glory to another, (Isaiah 42:8.) But, according to the testimony of Paul, when Christ was raised to kingly power,

The first of these is absolutely in the Scripture assigned to the Father, and that Uniformely and every where. His Will, His Counsel, His Love, His Grace, His Authority, His Purpose, His Design are constantly proposed as the Foundation of the whole Work, as those which were to b…

He has sent his word to call you from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. 4. It is a marvelous light, because such as none but the Mediator could procure it (Isaiah 42:6-7): "I will give you for a light to the Gentiles." 5. It is a marvelous light, because a l…

Herein he wrought, and in the accomplishment of it, saw of the travail of his soul, and was satisfied (Isaiah 53:11), that is, he rested and was refreshed. Herein he gave a new law of life, faith, and obedience to God (Isaiah 42:4), not by an addition of new precepts to the mora…

From hence faith (Acts 13:45), sanctification (2 Thessalonians 2:13), holiness (Ephesians 1:4), preservation in grace (2 Timothy 2:19), the death of Christ for them (John 3:16), and final glory itself (2 Timothy 2:10), do all ensue and proceed; so that on the account hereof, he…

The Canonical authority of the Epistle to the Hebrews having been by some called into question, we must in our entrance declare both what it is which we intend thereby, as also the clear interest of this Epistle therein; for this is the foundation of all those ensuing discourses…

Also, that he shall come with great glory, and the clouds of heaven (Daniel 7:13, 14), and that he shall come lowly, riding on an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass (Zechariah 9:9). That the soul of the Lord was well pleased with him and always delighted in him (Isaiah 42:1), an…

The great promise whereof was the foundation of the Covenant with Abraham. And hence God says, that he will give him for a Covenant to the people (Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:8). And the salvation which they looked for through him, God promises through the blood of the Covenant (Zech…

For the former, they declare that he was to be the Son of God, God and Man in one Person (Psalm 2:7; Psalm 110:1; Isaiah 9:6, 7; Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Zechariah 2:8, 9, 10), and in sundry other places is the same mystery intimated, whereby the Church was farther instructed how God w…

Isa. 28:5. In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a Crown of Glory; Targum; § 41 [in non-Latin alphabet], the Messiah of the Lord of Hosts: the Lord of Hosts, in and with the Messiah, who is the Crown of Glory, and Diadem of Beauty in his Kingly Office and Rule to the Remnan…

Which point must carefully be obserued and remembred, for the stay and comfort of their soules, that have in them but this weake saith, and are troubled much with distrust and doubting. And this is many a true child of Gods estate, for every one cannot attaine to Abrahams full a…

3. They who would rest in Christ's bed, must ride in his Chariot; they who would share in his peace and be admitted to sweet fellowship with him, must accept of his offers, and enter into Covenant with him. 4. The weight of all contained in the Covenant lies on Christ, therefore…

And again, by bushiness and blackness, we understand the vigor and perfection of Christ's lovely and desirable excellencies, that as loveliness and desirableness are in a man, when in his youth, at their height and perfection, so are they in Christ, with all commendable aggravat…

Then shall strength be shown out of weakness, and Christ shall cause his church as it were to thresh the mountains, as in Isaiah 41:15: "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing-instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make t…

There is also great difference in soul-seasons, some have had a long and a fair season of grace; an hundred and twenty years did God wait upon the old world, in the ministry of Noah. Long did God wait on the gainsaying Israelites (Isaiah 42:14). I have a long time held my peace,…

See also how the spirit in its fullness is given to Christ (Isaiah 11:2): "The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord." "I will put my spirit on him, he sh…

Romans 3:15: Their feet are swift to shed blood — for v. 17, the way of peace they have not known, and there is no fear of God before their eyes. Be meek and gentle as Christ (Isaiah 42:2, 3; Isaiah 53:7), a lamb dumb before the shearer (Luke 23:34; 2 Corinthians 10:1), and that…