Isaiah 6

Enunciatur hic locus de Christo, 'tis spoken of Christ. There are several names given to Christ as a Prophet: He is called the Counsellor (Isaiah 6:9). In uno Christo Angelus faederis completur, Fagius.

Use 2. If God be infinite in his glorious essence, learn to admire where you cannot fathom. The angels wear a veil, they cover their faces, as adoring this infinite majesty (Isaiah 6:3). Elias wrapped himself in a mantle when God's glory passed by; admire where you cannot fathom…

God is to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. The Seraphims who stood about God's throne covered their faces (Isaiah 6). And Elijah wrapped himself in a mantle when the Lord passed by, in token of reverence.

That anger is without sin, which is against sin; but that is an evil tongue, which is presently blown up into exorbitant passion; this tongue is set on fire from hell. Isaiah's lips were touched with a coal from the altar (Isaiah 6). His tongue was set on fire from heaven; but t…

He is the holy one (Job 6:10). Seraphims cry, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory" (Isaiah 6:3). His power makes him mighty, his holiness makes him glorious.

And when men harden their hearts willfully, God hardens them judicially. Isaiah 6:8. Make their ears heavy. The word to these is ineffectual.

Proverbs 8:22 to the 31: "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways; before his works of old: I was set up from everlasting, in the beginning or ever the Earth was, when there were no depths, I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with waters, before…

Q. Though there be but one God, yet is there not more persons, or subsistences in the Godhead than one? A. Yes; the Scriptures do apparently witness that in the unity of the divine essence, there is a plurality of the divine persons (Genesis 1:26 & 3:22 & 11:7; Isaiah 6:8 & 41:2…

A most fearful thing, if we well consider it, that both by preaching and making the Ark, he should not turn one of the sons of Lamech, Methushelah, or Henoch, to believe him: but that they should all rather choose to be misled in the general vanity of that wicked world, than to…

The most High God is the glorious God with whom is terrible majesty. To represent them it is said, that his throne is high and lifted up (Isaiah 6:1). And he is called the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity (Isaiah 57:17).

This may fall out sometimes. Hence the Prophet in his consternation at the appearance of the glory of God to him, cried out he was undone, not only because of his own sinful defilements, but because of the uncleanness of the people among whom he dwelt (Isaiah 6:5). And on this g…

Most as to the derivation of the name follow Kimchi; who affirms the letter Caph to be servile and a note of similitude; and the word to signify a youth or a child. Such these images are thought to represent; only they had wings instead of arms, as we now usually paint Angels; f…

And hence those who of old thought they had seen God, concluded that they should dye, as being sensible of their incapacity to treat immediately with him. So when the Prophet cried out that he was undone or cut off, because of the immediate presence of God, his eyes having seen…

They would not before bear any fruit, and they shall not hereafter, being hardened by the just judgement of God to their everlasting ruin. So was fulfilled what was long before foretold (Isaiah 6:9, 10), as our Apostle declares (Acts 28:26, 27). In answer hereunto, our Apostle i…

We have the first fruits, &c. 3. When Christ is seen, it makes a person vile in his own eyes (Isaiah 6:5). When his eyes had seen the King, the Lord of Hosts, he cries [illegible]ut, I am unclean &c.

The same breath in the Ministry, that blows a godly man to Heaven, blows a profane sinner to Hell. They who come with the Word of Life in their mouth, yet to many are a savor of death, Isaiah 6.10. Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy.

Love lines the yoke of religion, and makes it easy (Matthew 11:13). As a bride delights in putting on her jewels, as a musician delights in playing on his viol, so a gracious soul delights in obeying God: love to duty is better than duty; serving God with delight is angelical: t…

2. Holy persons are only fit to preach the faith; sancta sanctis, holy men for holy things; 'tis a holy faith, and therefore fit to be managed by holy persons, that their hearts may carry a proportion with their work (Isaiah 52:11): "Be you clean that bear the vessels of the Lor…

'All things are naked and open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do' (Hebrews 4:13). Realize his infinite holiness — into what a serious, composed frame did the sight of God in his holiness put the spirit of the prophet (Isaiah 6:5)! Labor also to get up your heart due app…

So he dealt with many of the idolatrous Gentiles of old (Romans 1:24, 26, 28), and so continues to deal with the like profligate sinners. So he acts towards the generality of the Anti-christian world (2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12), and with many despisers of the Gospel (Isaiah 6:9,…

In the first way, God is said frequently to harden the hearts of men in their sins, and to their ruin, as he did with Pharaoh; and he does it in general two ways, (1.) by withholding from them those supplies of light, wisdom and understanding, without which they cannot understan…

Secondly, an inward voyce of the Spirit. This I collect out of Isaiah 6:9: Goe to that people and tell them, heare you indeed but not understand; see you indeed, but not perceive, that is, they shall have an outward hearing, an outward knowledge, but not an inward. There is a co…

And when God intends to break his Covenant with them, (because they broke theirs) then he dries up the root; and therefore in the next chapter you shall find that God charges them with dealing falsely in making a Covenant. And then, the godly among a people are as the root of th…

The affection, which is proper in the diligent consideration of them, is great reverence and sweet feeling of the glory of God, which any manner of way is found in them (Psalm 64:9-10; 104:34). We contrariwise, either wholly neglect them as (Isaiah 6:12), or else in lightness, &…

2. It is not a complaint as to one sermon, or as to one time, but it is a complaint frequently repeated as to many fruitless sermons, and as to many times, yes, generations. Isaiah preached long in many kings' reigns, and yet all along his prophecy he complains of it, as in Isai…

Unbelief straitens and shuts the door, and makes preaching become a very burden to a faithful minister, therefore the Apostle exhorts (Hebrews 13:17), Obey them that have the rule over you, and watch for your souls, that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is un…

So John his glorious soul-ravishing comforts, in seeing the seven golden candlesticks, and the Son of man in such glory and majesty, (Revelation 1:12-15) yet it appears to be a desertion that he is under, when Christ forbids him to fear, and when he must have the hand of Christ…

Answ. The argument is strong for us; the Apostle speaks of the Gospel-truth; but he will not have the Gospel preached to Samaritans (Matthew 10), to Bithinians, and thousands others. 2. He will not open the hearts of thousands that hear the Gospel, because he will (Matthew 11:28…

She could neither have loved him nor have sought him, nor have so known the worth of him, if he had not loved her first, and if she in some measure had not had him: But when she says she found him not, the meaning is, not in that feeling and comfort, not in that measure she soug…

Abraham was cast into great horror (Genesis 15:12) when God appeared solemnly to enter into covenant with him. So (Isaiah 6:5) Then I said, woe is me, for I am undone. So Daniel (Daniel 10:8-9) when I saw this great vision, there was no strength in me; for my comeliness was turn…

The words of the prophet were, Go, blind their minds, and harden their hearts, (Isaiah 6:10.) Matthew ascribes this to the hearers, that they may endure the blame of their own blindness and hardness; for the one cannot be separated from the other.

The holy Nature in the Saints and Angels in Heaven (where the true Tendency of it best appears) is principally engaged by the Holiness of divine Things. This is the divine Beauty which chiefly engages the Attention, Admiration and Praise of the bright and burning Seraphim; Isaia…

And his acting in the One is no less Holy than in the other, although Holiness be not the Effect of it in the Objects. So when he came to declare his dreadful Work of the final hardning and Rejection of the Jews, one of the most tremendous Effects of Divine Providence, a Work wh…

Wherefore in any Work of his, two things are to be considered; (1.) What the means he makes use of tend to in their own Nature; And (2.) what he intends by it; The first may be resisted and frustrated, but the latter cannot be so. Sometimes in and by that word which in its own N…

And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed — where it is obvious to observe, that the believing of the Gospel report owes itself to the revelation of God's arm; or requires the exerting of his power, agreeable to that of the Apostle, That you may know what is the exceeding grea…

Surely it is as oyl to the wheels, that makes them run of freely and nimbly their course. Thus when Isaiah had obtained a special manifestation of God, and the Lord askt, whom shall I send? he presents a ready soul for the employment, Isaiah 6:8 Here am I, Lord, send me. Why, th…

When the holiest men have addrest themselves to him, see with what humility and deep adoration they have spoken of him and to him! Isaiah 6:5 Wo is me for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have se…

There they wait upon him, to receive and execute his commands in all the affairs of his Kingdom. So are they everywhere described in the Scripture (Psalm 68 and 103; Daniel 7; Revelation 5; Isaiah 6, and elsewhere). And by this ministry of Angels does God insinuate to us the glo…

And Psalm 119:70 they call it absolutely [in non-Latin alphabet] the figment, or evil fomes, of the heart. [in non-Latin alphabet]; the figment of their heart is made thick or hard as with fatness; an expression not unusual in the Scripture to set out impenitency and security in…

This is the fiery property of the nature of God, whence he is called a Consuming fire, and Everlasting burnings: And the law whereon he had impressed some representation of it, is called a fiery law, as that which will consume and burn up whatever is perverse and evil. Hence the…

God for Christs sake beeing content to receive us for his sonnes and daughters. Which art in heaven] God is said to be in heaven, not as though he were included in the circle of the heavens: for the heavens, and the heavens of heavens, are not able to containe him, 1. king. 8. 2…

Obs. 1. Love will have a great out-letting at sometimes beyond others as if a dam were gathered, and then let out. 2. Sense of love in a high degree will straiten and weigh a believer, as overburdening and overpowering him, so as he is put to say, hold, and woe is me, as it is,…

And therefore we read in Scripture what dreadful apprehensions the best of God's saints have been possessed withal, after some extraordinary discoveries that God had made of himself to them. Thus Isaiah cries out (Isaiah 6:5), Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of un…

Fire, the noblest element, sparkles vigorously. The angels are described with wings (Isaiah 6:2), which is an emblem of their [reconstructed: swift] obedience. The more violent we are in religion, the more angelical we are.

Jeremiah 6:29: "Reprobate silver shall men call them, for the Lord has rejected them." Isaiah 6: "Go make the heart of this people fat, their ears dull, etc." Christ executes by the Gospel that curse upon many souls, which he denounced against the fig tree (Matthew 21:19): "Let…

Christ so buys with a price his own, that he carries them on to the purchased glory, and brings them actually to the fruition of life eternal; for Christ is an established high Priest to intercede for his own, and the intercession of Christ is nothing but a continual showering d…

He graciously inclines the will and hearts of men (Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 32:39, 40; Ezekiel 36:27) as the saints pray (Psalms 119:33, 34, 36, 88; Psalms 86:11; Canticles 1. & 4). He hardens the heart, and blinds the mind, as in his judgment he pleases (Job 12:16; Ezekiel 14…

Now the elect Angels are the special messengers, and New Covenant officers, ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14). And the Angels (Ezekiel 1) are acted in all their motions by that Jehovah, whose glory Isaiah saw (Isai…

There are no passions in the glorified and perfectly meekened ones, who stand before the throne, but such as are pure and unmixed fire for the everlasting praises of God. Hence showers of influences eternally rain on them night and day without ceasing (Isaiah 6:2, 3, 4; Revelati…

The structure of the new Jerusalem, the twelve ports, the foundation of the wall, garnished with all manner of precious stones, the building of the wall of Jasper, what a bride the Lamb's wife is, as she is busked and adorned with the glory of God, what a joyful company of harpe…