Isaiah 60

Christ as a King commands deliverance, and as a God creates it. And deliverance shall come in his time (Isaiah 60:22), I the LORD will hasten it in his time. Quest. When is the time that this King will deliver his people?

A pious soul goes to the word as to a feast, or as one would go with delight to hear music. Sleidan reports that the Protestants in France had a church they called Paradise, because when they were in the house of God, they thought themselves in Paradise: the saints flock as dove…

They are princes in all lands (Isaiah 45:16). Kings do minister to them (Isaiah 60:10), yea angels (Hebrews 1:14). The Lord will give whole kingdoms to ransom them (Isaiah 43:3).

Isaiah 43:4. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable. Isaiah 60:15. I will make thee an eternal excellency. London, Printed by A. Maxwell for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Three Crowns and Bible in Cheapside, 1672.

Do you think your soul would dare to be so giddy and light if the fence of a divine eye were upon it? Remember the place where you are is the place of his feet (Isaiah 60:13). Act faith upon the omniscience of God: 'All the churches shall know that I am he that searches the hear…

This looks back to the former verse, where there is mention made of the City of God, ver. 4. There is a River, the streams whereof shall make glad the City of God; by this City of God, is meant Jerusalem, which is called the City of Jehovah, Isa. 60. 14. and the holy City, Isa.…

Love is an element that all the elect, men and angels, swim in; the banks of the river swell above the circle of the sun, to the highest of the highest heavens. Christ's love in the gospel takes all alive, as a mighty conqueror; his seed for multitude is like the drops of dew th…

Thus, in another passage, Isaiah testifies that this privilege belongs peculiarly to the church alone. "Behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee," (Isaiah 60:2.) But how c…

It is a mistaken view of this passage which some have adopted, that all the inventions of men, and every thing that has not proceeded from the mouth of God, must be rooted up and perish; for it was rather to men that Christ referred, and the meaning is, that there is no reason t…

For I acknowledg that it is not only or meerly the internal Darkness, or blindness of the Minds of Men in the State of Nature that is here intended, but the whole State of Darkness, with what is contributed thereunto by Satan and the World. This the Prophet speaks of, Isa. 60. 2…

Isaiah 60:19. And your God your glory. I lately had occasion to speak on the verse immediately following that of our text; but when I am reading God's word, I often find it is like being in a tempting garden, when we pluck a little fruit and find it good, we are apt to look afte…

Isaiah 60:19-20. The sun shall be no more your light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give [illegible] you, but the Lord shall be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself, for the L…

But upon whose order, and institution save that which Saint Paul to the superintendents met at Miletus, Acts 20, Spiritus sanctus vos constituit Episcopos? I marvel, brethren, with what face you can make Jerome say, that the presbyters themselves were the authors of this imparit…

May not worship then be given to a creature? Answer: This worship may be taken for civil worship, namely for that submission which the enemies of the Church shall be forced by the power of Christ to make to her, as was promised by the Prophet (Isaiah 60:14), The sons also of the…

He that believs will not make haste, Isaiah 28:16. not make haste; to what? not to the enjoyment of the thing believed. Haste argues precipitation and impatience; this the soul that has this discovery is freed from, resolving to wait the time of Gods appointment, for peace and c…

This shows what a believer should be, and who deserves this name. The condition of this Dove is, that she is in the clefts of the rocks, and in the secret places of the stairs: It is ordinary for doves to hide themselves in rocks, or holes in walls of houses; And this similitude…

That work of conversion shall go on in a wonderful manner, and spread more and more. Many shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, and shall come as it were in flocks, one flock and multitude after another continually flowing in, as in Isaiah 60:4-5. "Lift up thine eyes…

That is, with silence and reverence receive his commands: and the like everywhere. So for the scandal of persecution, it is everywhere declared that in the latter days the enemies shall be the subjected party, glad to take hold of the skirt of a Jew (Zechariah 8), bow to the sol…

7. The house of Gods glory, Isa. 60:7 8.

If there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the same love, &c. Doves cannot endure to be amongst Ravens, but where they see meekness and love, there th…

Labor so to walk, as some soul may bless God for you, and bless God for your joining with his people: Heretofore I was a poor ignorant wretch, and minded nothing but to satisfy the flesh, and heard many Sermons, and they never wrought upon me, but now I see the holy conversation…

Saints and faithful brothers, Colossians 1:2. A people all righteous, Isaiah 60:21. The whole fabric of it is glorious, Isaiah 54:11-14.

A man's mind is lessened when he is under that passion. Griefs contract and lessen the soul, but joy enlarges it, as (Isaiah 60:5), and in this sense it is said (Psalm 4:1), you have enlarged me when I was in distress. In sorrow the spirits return to comfort and support the hear…

So that the broken-hearted are more capable of his mercy than others are: God will revive the spirit of the contrite ones (Isaiah 57:15-17). He takes care to comfort them and to look after them whatever be neglected (Isaiah 60:2). None are so apt to presume of mercy as the carel…

If there were twice or three times a week a certain sum of money to be distributed to all comers, then people would resort there; now think thus with yourselves, when the word of God is preached, the bread of life is distributed, which is more precious than thousands of gold and…

The wicked leave their name for a curse (Isaiah 65:15). The names of God's children are embalmed (Isaiah 60:15). So precious are their names that God enters them in the book of life and Christ carries them on his breast.

All the Kingdoms of the world are the Lord's, and his Son's, and he reigns in them by his Word and Gospel, as the seventh Angel sounds (Revelation 11:15). All the Gentiles are his (Isaiah 60:1-4, Malachi 1:11). All the ends of the earth and the heathen (Psalm 2:8-9, Psalm 72:7-1…

Isaiah 54:1: Sing O barren — for more are the children of the desolate than of the married wife says the Lord. Isaiah 60:4: Lift up your eyes round about, and see, all they gather themselves about, they shall come to you: your sons shall come from far, and your sons shall be nou…

And John the Baptist was obliged to esteem the multitudes, all Judea who were baptized of him (Mark 1:5; Luke 3:7; Matthew 3:2-4), really sanctified and redeemed. Yes, and since there are prophecies under the Messiah, that all the kingdoms of the world (Revelation 11:15), Egypt,…

2. The Anabaptists from these places say none are to be baptized, but such as are so in Covenant, and as have these promises fulfilled in them, in whom the Lord has wrought a new heart, and a new spirit; and that there is no external covenanting under the New Testament. But then…

Now this must be given to Christ by promise (Galatians 3:16). Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made, he says not, and to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to your seed, which is Christ: He cannot well mean mystical Christ, that is, Christ and all his, for they a…

But the Covenant of suretyship which we teach, makes not the truth of God to depend upon our faith, or our unbelief; indeed the Lord promises that Christ without all fail, shall undeclinably see his seed, indeed, and shall be the restorer of the Tribes of Jacob, and a light to t…

They know him not, they have not seen him at any time. Hence is that promise to the church in Christ (Isaiah 60:1-2): "For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you." The anc…

1. Patience in waiting: A godly man, if he has not his desire presently, he will wait till the mercy be ripe, Psalm 130. 6. My soul waiteth for the Lord. Good reason God should have the Timing of our mercies, Isaiah 60. 22. I the Lord will hasten it in his time. Deliverance may…

Without the Scripture all the World is in Darkness. Darkness covers the Earth, and thick Darkness the People, Isaiah 60. 2. It is the Kingdom of Satan filled with Darkness and Confusion.

1. The first thing you are to believe for is the interest of your own souls in the Covenant of Grace, by Christ; as to this I shall only point unto that promise of the covenant, Hebrews 8:12: I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins, and their iniquities I wil…

(2 Chronicles 19:2) The prophet Jehu said to Jehoshaphat that good king, There is wrath upon you from the Lord. (Isaiah 60:10) For in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor, I have had mercy on you. 7. The contrary error is founded upon two other errors, that all afflictions are…

2. He is the grafter, and planter of all the branches into this vine. Isaiah 60:21 he calls them his righteous people, 'the branch of my planting,' the work of my hands. Other husbandmen do but expect what branches their vines will of themselves bring forth, but God appoints who…

And there are many things that make it probable that this work will begin in America. It is signified that it shall begin in some very remote part of the world, that the rest of the world have no communication with but by navigation (Isaiah 60:9): "Surely the isles shall wait fo…

Here it is observable, that it is not said, you shall be a crown upon the head, but in the hand of the Lord — that is, held forth, in your beauty and excellency, as a prize, to be bestowed upon others that shall behold you, and be animated by the brightness and luster which God…

He that believes on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. And it is with special reference to God's freeness and readiness to bestow grace at such a time, that it is said in (Isaiah 60:11) of the spiritual Jerusalem, Your gates shall be open continually, they s…