Joel 1

How many woes has God pronounced against this sin (Isaiah 28:1): Woe to the drunkards of Ephraim! (Joel 1:5): Howl, you drinkers of wine! Drunkenness excludes a person from heaven (1 Corinthians 6:10): Drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom of God: a man cannot go to heaven ree…

Psalm 111:2. The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. Joel 1:3. Tell you your Children of it, and let your Children tell their Children, and their Children another Generation.

As it is profaneness to call that common which God has sanctified and made holy; so it is tyrannical superstition and presumption to make that holy which God has made common. Occasional days of humiliation and thanksgiving, when God by his Providence calls thereunto, there is Sc…

God approved this as a holy and laudable exercise. And we also see that the Prophets summoning the people to repentance have called them to sackcloth and ashes (Joel 1:13). But as we have formerly said that fasting is not here condemned in itself, no more does Isaiah condemn the…

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Quest. How does this agree with the commandment of God, Joel. 1. 13, 14. where hee bids them howle and crie in their fast, which cannot be without a mournfull countenance; and indeede in a true fast rightly celebrated, the sorrow of the heart must needes be testified by some con…

2. A palm tree has good fruits; the dates are the fruit thereof. 3. It is a tree of long continuance, and keeps long green; hence (Psalm 92:12, 14) it is said of the righteous, they shall flourish like the palm tree; therefore (Joel 1:12) it is an evidence of great drought, when…

It is deservedly accounted a sad judgment, when God shuts up the heavens over our heads, and makes the earth as brass under our feet (Deuteronomy 28:23). Then the husbandmen are called to mourning (Joel 1:11). All the fields do languish, and the bellowing cattle are pined with t…

3. His influences are in things small, as in the falling of a Sparrow to the earth; not one hair of the head but it is numbered by him (Luke 21:18; Matthew 10:29, 30, 31). Not a gourd groweth, nor a worm eats it, but at his command (Jonah 4:6, 7; Amos 4:7, 8, 9; Joel 1:1, 2, 3,…

Job 26:7. He stretches out the North over the empty place, and hangs the Earth upon nothing; give a reason of East and West. 3. The Lord puts forth sovereignty on Jeroboam's arm to dry it up, on Mephibosheth's feet, upon the man's eye-holes (John 9) that they should be empty of…

Witness these Scriptures, (Psalm 145:4) One generation shall praise your works to another, and remember your mighty acts. (Joel 1:3) Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. So (Psalm 78:3-7) That which we have h…

(Psalm 145:4) One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. (Joel 1:3) Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. (Joshua 4:6-8) That this may be a sign among you, that when…

Are you old? Hear then, you old men (Joel 1:2), what shall we hear? That in (Titus 2:2) take heed of old age sins, old age lusts (concupiscentia non senescit) when men are dying, and have one leg in the grave, when they are about to give up the ghost, yet (like the thief on the…

14. And upon this account there is required a deadening of our hearts to shipping and trading with diverse mighty nations, as we see in the case of Tyre (Ezekiel 27), of Babylon (Revelation 18:11-13; Jeremiah 51). So are we to be mortified to fair houses (Isaiah 5:8), stately ci…

Thus we find in the fourth chapter of Amos, that droughts, and blastings, and mildews, &c. are signs that the morning shall be made darkness. Yes, bad harvests are sometimes a sign, that a day of great trouble is at hand; Joel 1:15. "Alas for the day, for the day of the Lord is…

The spiritual blessing for which the church fasted when they sent forth apostles and ordained elders, was extraordinary (Acts 13:3 and 14:23). The judgment which was denounced against Nineveh (for preventing whereof they fasted) and which was inflicted on Israel in Joel's time (…