Isaiah 9

This being a grand article of our faith, I shall amplify: I know the Arians, Socinians, Ebionites would rob Christ of the best jewel of his crown, his Godhead; but the Apostolical, Nicene, Athanasian Creed affirm Christ's deity, to this the churches of Helvetia, Bohemia, Wittemb…

Let all great ones take heed how they employ their power against Christ: Christ gives them their power, and if this power shall be made use of for the suppressing of his kingdom and ordinances, their account will be heavy. God has laid the key of government upon Christ's shoulde…

1. God the Father is the God of peace (1 Thessalonians 5:23). 2. God the Son is the Prince of peace (Isaiah 9:6). 3. Peace is said to be the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22).

Without are dogs, and whoever loves and makes a lie. And as it is a great sin to tell a lie, so it is a worse sin to teach a lie (Isaiah 9:15). The prophet that teaches lies.

God the Father is called the God of Peace (Hebrews 13:20). God the Son, the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). God the Holy Ghost is a Spirit of Peace: it is called the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:3).

The Devil is called the strong man (Matthew 12:29). Christ is called el Gibbor, the mighty God (Isaiah 9:6). The Devil is called the Accuser (Revelation 12:10).

He is a Father in respect of grace, because we are regenerate by him, and accepted to be his sons by adoption through the merit of Christ. And in this respect the second person as well as the first is called a Father, and said to have an offspring or seed and children (Isaiah 9:…

That is a sad condition indeed to which no promise belongs. I remember Mr. Calvin, on those words (Isaiah 9:1), 'Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,' solves the question in what sense the darkness of the captivity was not so great as the lesser in…

You would not think it lost labor, to read and study these places of Scripture, that show what our Lord Jesus is in his Person, Nature, and Offices, that you may have the faith of his Godhead fixed, and may be clear as to the excelling fullness that is in him. As namely that of…

But to pursue what we proposed, namely, these several ways whereby the Scripture confirms this truth, and to this purpose consider: 1. The express titles and names that are given to him in Scripture, and some Scripture sayings of him which hold it out; three of which we shall in…

He shall outlive his sufferings, and death; and shall be delighted in seeing of them, who shall get the good of his sufferings; as it is said of Job, that he saw his children, or [reconstructed: seed] of the third and fourth generation; that is, he lived long, and saw [reconstru…

The word portion is not in the original, but well supplied, It is only, I will divide him many, as the word is often used, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, That is, He shall in dividing the spoil, be above the strongest. The words infer, and take in these three, 1.…

There is (Hosea 3) a promise of the ingathering of the Jews. And (Isaiah 9:6) it's said, that "The government shall be upon his shoulders, and of the increase of his government there shall be no end". And (Revelation 11:15) it is proclaimed, "The kingdoms of this world are becom…

Because, not any Saint on earth can be so united personally to God, as the Son of Man; for he being made of a woman, of the seed of David, the Son of Man, he, and not any but he, is the eternal Son of God, God blessed for ever. The Child born to us, is the mighty God, the Father…

The born heir of a Prince, is in hope a Prince, but he comes not out of the womb with the crown on his head. Christ coming out of the grave, which is the womb and loins of death, as the first begotten of the dead is born a king (Acts 5:31), and all that are born of this father o…

It is a use of trial that we are upon in this discourse, and therefore to proceed to the next part of the point: those that have Christ for a Savior, they have him also for a Prince (Acts 5:31). God has appointed him for a Prince and a Savior; if you will have him for a Savior,…

3. To show the old prophecies were fulfilled, which foretold the union of the two natures in his Person, the predictions concerning one whose name should be Immanuel, God with us, and who should save and redeem the church (Isaiah 7:14). And of a child that should be the Mighty G…

And when we pray, saying, Our father, &c. we inuocate not onely the first person, but also the Sonne, and holy Ghost. And the sonne of God, is expressely called the Father of eternitie, in respect of vs, Isa 9:6. and he is said to have his seede. Isa 53:11.

79. That he might give light to those who were sitting in darkness As to light and darkness, there are similar modes of expression in Isaiah: such as, "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath…

is very emphatic; for it would have given no great delight to hear that the Author of salvation was born, unless each person believed that for himself he was born. In the same manner Isaiah says, “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given,” (Isaiah 9:6;) and Zechariah, “Be…

“Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people th…

It is the better to signify, and exhibit to us, that variety of excellencies that meet together, and are conjoined in him. Many appellations are mentioned together in one verse (Isaiah 9:6): For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his sh…

It is a good sign afflictive Providences are sanctified to us, when we draw near to God under them and turn to him that smites us. A wicked man under affliction revolts more and more, Isaiah 1:5 turns not to him that smites him, Isaiah 9:13 but grows worse than before; formality…

This latter darkness is the daughter of the former. The Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 9:2) speaks of the people that sat in darkness: which is repeated (Matthew 4:16), that is, in the darkness of ignorance, of sin and guilt; They had natural light enough, and they had civil light enoug…

For Christ is equal with his Father after the Godhead, and the seed or posterity of David after the manhood which he took of the virgin Mary, that was of David's kindred, and that by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost. If they therefore will assuage their rashness and malapertn…

Take a double description of him, one out of the Old testament, and another from the new. The first from Isaiah 9:6. To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, t…

Orherwhile it is given to the particular persons in Trinitie; as first and principally to the first person, who is commonly called the Father. And the second person in Trinitie is sometime called Father, as Isa. 9. 6. the father of Eternitie: because he is the ground of our adop…

4. Solomon was a wise, judicious King, and singular for that; and so in our Lord Jesus dwells all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; there is no need to fear that anything that concerns his people will miscarry in his hand. 5. Solomon had a peaceable reign (for which cause h…

Next, it is added; indeed, he is altogether lovely: Although she has spent many sweet words (and indeed there has been no straitening in her) in commending Christ, and although all her words be sweet, and especially when she draws near the close, her expressions be the more mass…

2. God might have punished London with famine, which is a greater judgment than the plague or sword: if the Lord had broken the whole staff of bread, and cut off all provisions of food from the many thousand souls that lived in and about the city; how dreadful would this have be…

8. God does expect that London should labor to pacify his anger. When God threatened to send the sword, and to cut off from Israel the head and the tail, the branch and the rush in one day, and to send the famine so sore that they should eat every man the flesh of his own arm, y…

OBSERVATION. AMong all earthly joyes, these four sorts are noted in Scripture, as the most excellent and remarkable, (1) Nuptial joyes, the day of Espousals is the day of the gladness of a mans heart, Cant. 3. 11. (2) The joy of children. Though now it seem but a common mercy to…

A rational victory must needs be allowed more honorable to a rational creature than a brutal one. This is a cheap, safe and unbloody conquest that does no body any harm, no lives, no treasures sacrificed to it, the glory of these triumphs, not stained as others use to be with fu…

That Word that was with God in the beginning, and was God (John 1:1), is also made flesh (verse 14), not by a conversion of itself into flesh, not by appearing in the outward shape, and likeness of flesh, but by assuming that holy thing that was born of the Virgin (Luke 1:55) in…

This arises from his union. Union is the conjunction of the two natures of God and man in one person (John 1:14; Isaiah 9:6; Romans 1:3, 9:5). The necessary consequences of which are: 1. The subsistence of the human nature in the person of the Son of God, having no subsistence o…

The fault was an active transgression of the law; and the obedience opposed to it must be an active accomplishment of it. Besides obedience placed singly in its own nature denotes an action, or actions conformable to the law; and therein came Christ, not to destroy but to fulfil…

Psalm 19:9 and 43:3 and 119:105, 130. Proverbs 6:23. Isaiah 9:2. Hosea 6:5. Matthew 4:16 and 5:14. John 3:20, 21: It is a Light so shining with the majesty of its Author, as that it manifests itself to be his.

He says, I lay, by which the Lord expresses this his own proper work, as the Psalmist speaks of the same subject (Psalm 118): This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. So (Isaiah 9:7), speaking of this promised Messiah, the zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform…

1. Essentially; and so it is common to all the persons in the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; all three are God, and our Father. And thus not only the first Person, but the second is called the Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6). And the Holy Ghost, being author of our being,…

In that Christ is called a Man, hence the Socinians blasphemously deny the essential Deity of Christ. That he is God, is most clearly evinced from Isaiah 9:6. Ioh. 1:1. 1 Corinthians 8:6. 1 John 5:20.

Furthermore, let us learn, that when Jesus Christ was exalted by God his father, it was to the end that his advancement should serve to our everlasting salvation. And therefore in Isaiah 9 he is called the father of the world to come, to the end we might know, not only that he i…

7. It is wisdom to look upon temptation as broken and overcome in Christ, and to consider Satan as a conquered enemy: this will not make us the less careful, but the less fearful: All the temptations that befall the people of God are already overcome in Christ; "For this purpose…

They are either fools or madmen that [illegible] endure the presence of the physician without whose help they could not be cured. This is made an evidence [illegible] the estrangement of God's heart from a people, and an immediate forerunner of their ruin (Isaiah 9:13-14, 17): F…

He would take him as a Savior, not a Prince. He would accept of Christ as he has a head of gold (Song of Solomon 5:11), but not as he has the government upon his shoulders (Isaiah 9:6). But when God lets loose the spirit of bondage, and convinces a sinner of his lost, undone con…

Mercy and peace are about his throne; he signs the articles of peace and sends the ambassadors of peace to publish them (2 Corinthians 5:20). Second, God the Son is called the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). His name is Emmanuel — God with us — a name of peace.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you (John 14:27). Jesus Christ not only purchased peace for us, but speaks peace to us; he is called the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). Peace is a crown jewel of his reign; he whispers his love to the soul and sends his Spirit, that bles…

There is a threefold epiphany or appearing of Christ. There is an appearing of Christ to us, as when he was incarnate (Isaiah 9:6): to us a child is born. This was a happy appearing; when this morning star appeared, then salvation appeared to mankind.

I answer, It is freely given to us, even as Fathers give Lands and Inheritances to their children, and as Kings give Pardons and Titles, and Honours, and Riches, out of their clemency, because they will, to show their magnificence, and goodness to their Subjects; So does GOD giv…

But 3. Then they are sin's servants, when there is a Law of sin and a Covenant, as there is between a master and a servant. And 2. full consent, and men give themselves, and willingly commit and deliver themselves (the word spoken of Christ's willingness to offer himself for us,…

And so the natural man can no more know and receive the things of the Gospel, than he can understand the Metaphysics, the Acroamatics of Aristotle: for these he cannot receive, but judges them folly; and so we are the same way blind, dead, stony-hearted to believe the Gospel, as…