Isaiah 46

O trust in Deo Immutabili: we like Noah's Dove have no footing for our souls, till we get into the ark of God's unchangeableness (Psalm 125:1): "They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion, which cannot be removed." God is unchangeable in his decree; what he has decreed f…

He sits Lord paramount, and who can call him to account? (Isaiah 46:10) I will do all my pleasure. The world is God's diocese, and shall not he do what he will in his own diocese?

Quest. 1. What is it to make God to be a God to us? Resp. 1. To make God to be a God to us, is to acknowledge him for a God: The gods of the heathen are idols (Psalm 96:5), and we know that an idol is nothing (1 Corinthians 8:4), that is, it has nothing of deity in it: If we cry…

They must needs be excellent who are e Regio Sanguine nati, of the Blood-Royal of Heaven; they are the spiritual phoenixes of the world, the glory of the creation. God calls his children his glory (Isaiah 46:13): Israel my glory. God honors his children with the title of kings (…

Q. Whether is the decree of God certain and immutable, or such as may be changed and not take effect? A. It is altogether unchangeable, and shall surely be accomplished (Psalm 33:11; 135:6; Isaiah 46:10; 14:27; Romans 9:11). Q. If the decree of God be unchangeable, then what nee…

For all the Purposes of God, all the eternal acts of his Will considered in themselves are immutable. See (Isaiah 46:10; Psalms 33:11; Proverbs 19:21; chapter 21:30) and their immutability is a necessary consequent of the immutability of the nature of God, with whom is no variab…

But shall we say that Paul wanted something to make him a free Roman, because he had no personal fitness nor ability to procure that freedom to himself by his own act, but only was so born? Or shall we say that David and others mentioned in (Psalm 22:10; Isaiah 46:4) wanted some…

12. God calls them a crown of glory and diadem in his hand (Isaiah 62:3). That is (says a learned writer) they are exceeding eminent and renowned above other people; as the crown is an ensign of the highest state and honor; nay, the Lord calls them expressly, his glory (Isaiah 4…

The great revolutions in the eastern part of the world, the ruin of the Babylonian Empire, the erecting of the Persian, and all the means whereby it was brought about, God ordered, God foretold, God directed for Jacob's service. Cyrus led by ambition, levies an army against Baby…

His Orchard of Pomgranates, Cant. 4. 13. His glory, Isa. 46. ult. God loves the World with a more common love, his Church hath the cream of his love: 'Tis one love wherewith a man loves his Bird, and another wherewith he loves his Child; and God cannot but love his people, becau…

Oh it is a sad expression, what Israel! a vessel employed and received to empty out excrements! [1. Israel were a people precious and honorable in the eyes of God (Isaiah 43:4). [2. An holy people to the Lord (Deuteronomy 14:2). [3. They were God's peculiar people above all nati…

And ver. 36. I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. The Medes and Persians — the people that destroyed Babylon, dwelt to the eastward of Babylon, and are spoken of as coming from the East to her destruction; Isaiah 46:11. Calling a ravenous bird from the EAST, the man…

The LXX renders it "their idols." And in very many other places they render the term by one Greek word for idols, sometimes by another, as Isaiah 46:1, Psalm 106:36. For the Hebrew root also signifies "to form" or "to fashion"; as Job 10:8, "Your hands formed me."

In grace's kingdom, the saints for their holiness, and Titus and the brethren (2 Corinthians 8:23), are the glory of Christ. I will place (says the Lord (Isaiah 46:13)) salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory. Faithful pastors take in cities, and subdue crowns and kingdoms, to Ch…

As melted, dissolved, and fallen in a swoon in Christ (Song of Solomon 5:6), and therefore needs in that swoon, to be recovered with the flagons of the wine and apples of his consolations (Song of Solomon 2:4). Nor can Jesus Christ but tenderly, lovingly, and compassionately dea…

Now such a hope as Arminians allow to Heathen and Indians, to Reprobates, who believe that Christ died for all and every one, and such as perish eternally, we gladly leave to themselves; and if our doctrine of particular redemption furnishes ground of despair as opposed to this…

God sent Joseph to Egypt to be the governor thereof, and a reliever of Jacob's family (Genesis 45). In this regard the Medes and Persians are said to be the sanctified ones of God (Isaiah 13:3), and the men of his counsel (Isaiah 46:11). The use: hence we are all taught, to walk…

In the authorized version the passage runs thus: Bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. — Editor. Isaiah 46:8. Next follows a confession, ‘Apres la cognoissance du peche s’ensuit aussi la confession;’ — ‘after the knowledge of sin there follows also confession.’ not such a…

There are some seeds and sparks of Moral Vertues remaining in the Ruines of depraved Nature, as of Justice, Temperance, Fortitude, and the like. Hence God calls on profligate Sinners to remember and shew themselves Men, or not to act contrary to the Principles and Light of Natur…

If God's decree be changeable, God's essence and nature were so also; election being nothing else, but God himself [reconstructed: choosing]: for every thing in God, is God. And this the Scripture tells us, is far from him; for there is no variableness or shadow of change in God…

And hence indefinitely it is taken for a rule or a measure. Besides it signifies the jugum, or scapus, or beam with the tongue of a balance keeping the poise of the scales equal, and discovering the rectitude or declensions thereof (Isaiah 46:6) [illegible] they weighed silver o…

And v. 23. [in non-Latin alphabet]; and before the World. And in that sense is [in non-Latin alphabet] always used; as Isaiah 23:7. Psalm 78:2. Isa. 46:10. And thus the words will yield a better sense than a facie admirabilis Consilii Deus; or that which they are cast into by Se…

They are out of breath with sin, yet not out of love with sin (Jeremiah 50:38): They are mad upon their idols. So violent were the Jews, that they would spare no cost in their idolatrous worship (Isaiah 46:6): They lavish gold out of the bag. So fiercely were they bent upon idol…

Isaiah 46:9. Remember the former things of old; for I am GOD, and there is none else; I am GOD, and there is none like me. The third thing which remains, is this, that there is no other GOD; and it is an argument which is often used in Scripture, to prove that the Lord is God, b…

6. His glory, Isaiah 46:13 I will place salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory. 7.

When God rocks their cradles, and nourishes them from the breast; what service can they do to God? (Isaiah 46:3-4) By me, says the Lord, You are born from the belly, and carried from the womb, and even to your old age, I am he, and even to hoary hairs will I carry you: mark, not…

This is the honor of God, when you are at his command. God gloried in Abraham; rather Cyrus than Abraham is there meant, as the context shows; see Isaiah 46:11, Isaiah 41:2. The man from the East, whom I have called to my foot.

They could not tell the number or posture of the veins, or bones, or muscles; it was all the curious workmanship of a wise God: and it is the same God that has kept us up to now. (Isaiah 46:3-4) By me you are born from the belly, and carried from the womb, even to old age; I am…

He did in an especial manner intend to meet with man, and to communicate himself to man in his righteous law, as the rule of his holy and righteous will, by which the will of Adam should have been ruled and guided to him, and made happy in him; and all creatures should have serv…

He calls them a crown and a royal diadem (Isaiah 62:3). He calls them his glory (Isaiah 46:13): Israel my glory. Second, God makes them honorable.

This at last carries away the assumed fictitious deity. And this thing, that is thus now made like God, is an idol (which indeed signifies so much) and this imitation of him wicked idolatry, than which nothing more debases a reasonable soul, or divests man of himself, that till…

Has this grace then, think you, been unprofitably spent on God's part? No verily: the case is the same here; David blesses God for being his God from his mother's belly, and from the womb (Psalm 22:9, 10), and God's grace is shown through this expression (Isaiah 46:3). There is…

And (4) it's wicked stoutness to say godly mourning before the Lord is in vain (Malachi 3:13-14). (5) It's wicked stoutness to rest upon your own righteousness and refuse to treat with God (Isaiah 46:12-13). (6) And vain stoutness to dare God in his own quarters and fight him (E…

But it is most untrue, that by necessity of nature, the glory of God is not transferred to idol gods and creatures; the Scriptures cry the contrary. Whenever idolatry is committed (Isaiah 40; Isaiah 41; Isaiah 46; Romans 1; Acts 17), his declarative glory is given, most sinfully…

Double refined, Zechariah 13:9. They are the glory of the Creation, Isaiah 46:13. Origen compares the Saints to Sapphires and Crystal: God calls them Jewels, Malachi 3:17. They are so: 1. For their value; Diamonds (says Pliny) were not known a long time but among Princes, and we…

Can you bestow your zeal better, than upon God? how zealous have men been in a false religion? Isaiah 46:6: They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. The Jews did spare no cost in their idolatrous worship, nay, Jeremiah 32:35: They cause their Sons and Da…

Who is this, that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved. 5. There is a word yet more, and that is bearing (Luke 15:5): when the good shepherd has found the lost sheep, he lays it on his shoulders with joy (Isaiah 46:3). Hearken to me O house of Jacob, and all th…

Consider what a Christ we have, one who as God, has a standing will that cannot fall (Isaiah 14:24). He does all his pleasure: his pleasure and his work are commensurable (Isaiah 46:10-11, Psalm 135:6, Psalm 115:3). Yet this Lord did stoop so low as to take to himself man's will…

Thirdly, whatever God has determined according to the counsel of his wisdom, and good pleasure of his will, to be accomplished to the praise of his glory, stands sure, and immutable: for the strength of Israel, will not lie, nor repent, for he is not a man, that he should repent…

The vulgar distinction of God's secret and revealed will, is such, as to which all the other may be reduced: and therefore I have chosen it to insist upon. The secret will of God, in his eternal, unchangeable purpose, concerning all things which he has made, to be brought by cer…

(3) By enumerating several instances, concerning which, the Scripture affirms particularly, that they have been decreed by God, as the sufferings and death of Christ (Acts 2:23); the glorifying of those, that are to be saved (Ephesians 1:4, 5; 1 Thessalonians 5:9); and the foreo…

Q. 2. What is God in himself? A. An (a) eternal (b) infinite, (c) incomprehensible (d) spirit, (e) giving being to all things, and doing with them whatever he pleases. (a) Deuteronomy 33:37; Isaiah 57:15; Revelation 1:8. (b) 1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 139:2, 3, 4, 5, &c. (c) Exodus 32:…

Q. 2. What is God in himself? A. An (a) eternal (b) infinite, (c) incomprehensible (d) spirit, (e) giving being to all things, and doing with them whatever he pleases. (a) Deuteronomy 33:37, Isaiah 57:15, Revelation 1:8. (b) 1 Kings 8:27, Psalm 139:2, 3, 4, 5, &c. (c) Exodus 32:…