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.

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 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…

'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…

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…

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…

If God be our God, and dear to our souls, his worship is dear to us; and if there be any people in the world, among whom God is truly worshipped, it is a great affliction not to be with them. It is the observation of one Interpreter upon that place in Isa. 6. where the Cherubims…

The glory of the only begotten Son of God (John 1:14). The choicest saints have been afraid, and amazed at the beauty of an angel; and the stoutest sinners have trembled at the glory of one of those creatures in a low appearance, representing but the back parts of their glory, w…

That Gospel which he taught them secretly, they proclaimed as it were upon the House Tops, according to his Order, Matthew 10:27. Though Christ himself gave such Hints of this Gospel in his preaching, as were sufficient for Salvation to those that would receive them, yet he migh…

Thus the very forbearance that the ungodly do enjoy, is usually involved with the interest of the godly, something of that readily goes into it, and so it is in a great part for their sakes, that the rest are both spared, and are furnished with common mercies. The saints are usu…

Holiness is not only our true glory, but that wherein the ever-glorious God does especially glory, and has made known himself so much by that name: the holy God. And that which is the express style of his glorious praises uttered by seraphim (Isaiah 6): Holy, holy, holy is the L…

We are apt to be poisoned by their bad example, and easily catch a sickness one from another. Good men may receive a taint (Isaiah 6:5): I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Open excesses do soon manifest their own odiousness.

2. This is that glory which God affects, and therefore the saints will give it him. (Isaiah 6:3) The holy angels, what do they cry out when they honor God? They do not acknowledge his power and dominion over all creatures as Lord of all; but they give him his peculiar glory, Hol…

So they think Stephen saw the glory of God, and Christ at his right-hand, as Abraham saw Christ's day, and rejoiced; that is, he saw it by faith. Some think it to be a prophetical vision, by seeing those things objected to his fancy, by imaginary species; as Isaiah saw God in a…

1. In conformity to the angels, we must serve God readily. The angels are represented as with wings (Isaiah 6:2), and the angel Gabriel is said to fly swiftly upon God's message. They are hearkening for God's word, and go on God's errand.

When the Prophet Isaiah had a glimpse of Gods Glory, he was stricken with holy consternation. Isaiah 6:5. Wo is me, I am undone, for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts.

Therefore God so punished those who made no end of provoking his wrath and who heaped evil upon evil, that at length he gave them over to a reprobate mind, so that they made no distinction between right and wrong, but rushed headlong of their own accord into every sort of wicked…

There may be a literal instruction which one man may give to another, but in your light only shall we see light; such a lively affective knowledge as disposes the heart for the enjoyment of God. There is a seeing, and a seeing in seeing (Isaiah 6:10): Lest in seeing they shall s…

A sight of God will best discover your self to yourself; that in the light of God's glorious majesty you may distinctly behold your own vileness and misery. Isaiah when he saw God in vision (Isaiah 6:5): "Then said I, woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lip…

It shows we know not the gift of God (John 4). If we had a due sense and value of his excellency, we would take the morning market, and let not Christ Jesus with all his benefits lie by as a commodity that may be had at the last, at any time of the day, we would look upon him as…

And elsewhere (Job 4:18): Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and his angels he charges with folly; mutability in the angelic nature. When Isaiah had seen God, and heard the angels cry out, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts (Isaiah 6:5): Then said I, woe is me, for I am…

3. They are the greatest punishments, which are made up of sins: it is worse to be let alone and given up, than if men were sent quick to Hell; for they live but as reserved to fill up their measure brimful, and to undergo the more of Hell, to grow rich in wrath, having treasure…

You are every day ripening for [reconstructed: destruction], and reserved in the chains of darkness till the judgment of the great [reconstructed: day], and therefore your condition is like that of the Devil himself — you have only the liberty of your chain, that is, liberty to…

And if he give you all mercies beside, tried you with all corrections, pursued with miraculous expressions of his power and faithfulness, if yet he give [reconstructed: not] a new heart, all that ever he shall give will never do you good. So the Prophet, when he was appointed an…

This was Laodicea's temper, [illegible] [illegible] 16. You say you are rich and wise, and lack nothing, and know not that you are poor, and naked, and miserable, and indeed have nothing; indeed, you are cut out for confusion, fitted and prepared on purpose for an everlasting re…

This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. The blessed angels cover their faces, crying, 'Holy, holy' (Isaiah 6:1). A holy heart will have a holy gesture.

The Roman church would have other healers besides Christ; they would make angels their physicians. But all the angels in heaven cannot heal one sick soul; they are indeed described by their wings (Isaiah 6:2), but they have no healing under their wings. The Roman church would al…