Isaiah 62

His jewels (Malachi 3:17). His royal diadem (Isaiah 62:3). He gives them the cream and flower of his love: He not only opens his hand and fills them (Psalm 145:16), but opens his heart and fills them.

2. It is Amor [reconstructed: plenus], a full love. When God takes you into covenant, you are his Hephsibah (Isaiah 62:3), his delight is in you; he gives you the key of all his treasure, he heaps pearls upon you, he settles heaven and earth upon you; he gives you a bunch of gra…

1. In a good sense, and so God is jealous for his people (Zechariah 1:14). Thus says the Lord, I am jealous for Jerusalem, and for Zion, with a great jealousy. God has a dear affection to his people, they are his Hephsibah or delight (Isaiah 62:4). The apple of his eye (Zecharia…

I will write upon him the name of my God: Their prayers are a precious perfume, their tears God bottles (Psalm 56:8). God esteems his children as a crown of glory in his hand (Isaiah 62:3). 2. God loves the places they were born in the better for their sakes (Psalm 87:6).

Psalm 122:6: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you. Isaiah 62:7: You which are the Lord's remembrancers, give him no rest, until he set up Jerusalem the praise of the world. And that God's church may flourish and be in good estate, we are to pray for…

Answer: To the Catholic church, that is, to the whole company of men predestinate to salvation: as Isaiah says, The people that dwell therein (that is, the church) shall have their sins forgiven (Isaiah 31:[illegible]). And, they shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of…

In ancient times, the Egyptians chose their kings out of their priests; the saints are consecrated to be priests to offer up to God the eucharistical sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving in heaven. 12. God calls them a crown of glory and diadem in his hand (Isaiah 62:3). That is…

The Ark which was the emblem and sign of Gods presence, was stiled, the glory of Israel. Why is the Church called a Royal Diadem, and a Crown of beauty, Isa. 62. 3. but because God casts his resplendent lustre upon her? I will be the glory in the midst of her.

Are not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? Christ wears the Church on his head as a crown of glory (Isaiah 62:3). How glorious is it to be for holiness Christ's garland, his diadem, and crown?

And the saints are truly honorable, being come of the blood-royal, of the princely seed (John 1:13; 1 John 3:1, 9). And the Church is a spiritual monarchy: the plant of renown, their Head, said of her (Isaiah 62:3), You shall be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a ro…

And if Satan be thus zealous, so importunate a solicitor against the saints, it may teach us to be as earnest and zealous for the saints. Satan does not only move, but he moves by arguments, he incites: it is not enough to pray by proposing our desires, but we must pray enforcin…

He had but that one business, and he attended it to the purpose. By this means we give God no rest, Isaiah 62:7. which is the very character of importunity. Such souls go to God; and they are not satisfied with what they have done; and they go again; and somewhat abids still wit…

Thirdly, the trebling of this commandment in diverse tearmes must teach us, to be instant and vrgent with God in prayer: this is an holy and acceptable importunitie, when the Christian heart gives God no rest: Ierem. 29. 12, 13. the Lord promises to his people, That they shall e…

1. What the Church is: it is a city, wherein there is order, and a common fellowship, as has been said, verse 2. 2. The ministers' office is here implied: this city has watchmen; so are ministers called (Ezekiel 3:17; Isaiah 62:6; Hebrews 13:17). Which word imports, 1. That the…

4. A lawfully-called ministry, or watchmen peculiarly designed for that end, are the great means Christ has appointed for preventing the hurt, and promoting the good and edification of his Church (Ephesians 2:12-13). They are as the sentinels, which he has set on the walls for g…

The magistrates shall call the inhabitants of Jerusalem their strength; and the like elsewhere. So again, the Church has been under the abasement of reproaches, but God has promised a vindication in the latter days, that he will establish Zion a praise throughout the earth, set…

Paul found his spirit wrought upon, and refreshed, so that the Text says, when Timotheus was come, Paul was pressed in spirit. Fifthly, it is good being with Gods servants, though it be in suffering affliction, because God takes so much delight in them; if God takes delight in b…

This is yielded as the reason, why the church shall not be ashamed nor confounded, in the midst of her troubles and trials, she is married unto her maker, and her redeemer is her husband. And Isaiah 61:10, setting out the mutual glory of Christ and his church in their walking to…

Of communion with Christ in a conjugal relation in respect of consequential affections. His delight in his saints is first considered — Isaiah 62:5, Song of Solomon 3:11, Proverbs 8:21. As an instance of Christ's delight in believers: he reveals his whole heart to them, John 15:…

Oh! those take his ear, and move his bowels, for these are the voice, the cries of his own children. A strange word of encouragement to importunity, give him no rest (Isaiah 62:7). Suffer him not to be in quiet till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

When God has a mind to work, then he sets the Spirit of prayer to work; for he will have all things accomplished in his own way. Because he has put this office upon his people, that they are to be his remembrancers at the throne of grace (Isaiah 62:6): "You that make mention of…

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

As Joseph presented his brothers before Pharaoh and brought them into favor with the king (Genesis 47:2), so the Lord Jesus carries the names of the saints upon his breast and presents them before his Father, bringing them into repute and honor. Through Christ God will deal and…

So it is prophesied (Isaiah 61:9) Their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: All that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed that the Lord has blessed. 6. But you shall be named the Priests of the Lord, (holy by Covenant…

Thus, being launched again into the gulf of misery, unless a miracle of grace prevent it, they everlastingly perish in their own deceivings. Now I saw in my dream, that by this time the pilgrims were got over the Enchanted Ground, and entering into the country of Beulah, whose a…

God will have his Promised Mercies to fall, as the Dews upon the parched gasping Earth; or as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary Land, Isaiah 32. 2. very welcome unto the Traveler, who has had the Sun beat upon his head in his travel all the day. Zion is a Crown of Glory in t…

If a Moses or a Samuel should intercede by prayer that the Lord would spare the land, his prayer should be a hedge or a wall to stand in the way of justice, to hinder the Lord from destroying his people. 7. Prayer is a heavenly violence to God, expressed in diverse powerful expr…

3. It is a strong faith in this woman, that, in a manner, conquers Omnipotence by believing; indeed, Satan, winds, fire from heaven, wife, Sabeans, indeed, apprehended wrath cannot prevail with Job, to subdue his faith; in all he stands by this, (Job 15:13) Though the Lord shoul…

Isaiah 61:1-2: 'The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me, to preach good tidings to the meek — to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the year of v…

And again (Isaiah 57:14): Cast up, cast up; prepare the way; take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people. And (Isaiah 62:10): Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones. And in order to this, t…