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).

Now a Child born to be God with us, is God in that Child taking our nature upon him, and no otherwise can the words be understood. Isaiah 9:6. To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and his name shall be called the mighty God.

Isa. 8:13, 14. Sanctifie the Lord of Hosts himself, and let him be your dread; let him be your fear, and he shall be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem —…

We stood in absolute need of it, and could not have been saved without it, and his great love to us put him upon such a thing. This business therefore was engaged in for us (Isaiah 9:6): "To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given." And Paul plainly tells us what he came into t…

Q. How may it be proved that Christ is God? A. By sundry places of Scripture, wherein he is expresly so called (Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1; Romans 9:5; Philippians 2:6; 1 John 5:20). Q. How else?

For when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son (Romans 5:10). Hence his name was [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). Therefore this reconciliation and peace with God, is a great part of this Gospel-perfection.

And on these considerations our Apostle concludes that without all controversie the work hereof is a great mystery (1 Timothy 3:16), which we may adore but cannot comprehend. See the name of Christ (Isaiah 9:6). As that wherein God has expressly designed to glorify himself to et…

But that is not the fire that is here intended. It is devouring, consuming, destroying, such as answers the severity of God's justice to the utmost, as Isaiah 9:5; chapter 30:33; chapter 66:15; Amos 7:4; Matthew 18:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Psalm 11:7; Deuteronomy 32:22. Therefore…

Oh! Consider; was the righteousness of Christ, ever, the most glorious thing in your eye, that ever you saw: or did you ever admire, and wonder at it. He is wonderful (Isaiah 9:6): it is his name; and as is his name, so is he: not only in himself; but in some measure, in the eye…

2. If you have seen him, it has been a wonderful sight. Jesus Christ is a wonderful one; his n[illegible]me is wonderful (Isaiah 9:6). And when he is seen he appears so to be to the soul: he is so in himself, and will be so to his for ever.

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:…

There is a double ground of enmity in man's heart, the guilt and power of sin; Christ wipes guilt out of the conscience by the application of his own blood, and weakens the power of sin more and more. Sin is the makebate, and Christ is the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). The great…

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…

Now if you will not be at cost for a good minister, it is a sign you love your profit above Christ. Those that dwell where Christ's voice is not, let them remove for they sit in darkness and in the shadow of death (Isaiah 9:2). If your dwelling be pleasant, if you have bitter wa…

Luke 3:38. Which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. And in Isaiah 9:6 Christ is called the father of eternity because all that are truly knit to him and born anew by him, they are eternally made the sons of God. Again, oftentimes it is given to the first person in Tr…

Be sure to look up first to Jesus Christ that great Counsellor. He is called in Isaiah 9, THE COUNSELLOR: it's he that is wonderful in counsel: God has given a style to his Son to be The Counsellor, he is to be the Counsellor of your soul for your eternal estate, yes, and to be…

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…

So is the Throne of Christ said to be in opposition to the frail mutable kingdoms of the earth. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the Throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgement and with justice from…

Hence the things spoken of him in the Old Testament, are to carnal reason full of seeming inconsistencies. As for instance, it is promised of him that he should be the seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15), of the seed of Abraham (Genesis 22:18), and of the posterity of David; and ye…

And this kind of expression in the Scripture, when a thing is said to be called that which it is; the name denoting the being, nature, and quality of it, is so frequent, that there is nothing peculiar in it as here used. See (Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 8:3; Isaiah 9:6; Jeremiah 23:6; Z…

Secondly, they do the same in the description they give of the person that was to be this remedy or relief, and of the work that he had to accomplish for that end and purpose. For the former, they declare that he was to be the Son of God, God and Man in one Person (Psalm 2:7; Ps…

The illustrious Prophesies concerning the name of the Messiah, Immanuel, and his being born of a Virgin, Chap. 7. & 8. must be handled apart afterwards and vindicated from the exceptions of the Jews, and are therefore here omitted. Isaiah 9:6. And his Name shall be called Wonder…

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…