Judges 14

This almightiness of God's power is a wonderful support and comfort to every believer. It was Samson's riddle (Judges 14:14): Out of the strong came forth sweetness. So out of the attribute of God's power, out of this strong comes forth sweetness.

Lord, use your pruning knife, so long as you will not come with your bloody axe to hew me down. 8. Means, If we would have our wills submit to God, let us not look so much on the dark side of the cloud, as the light side; that is, let us not look so much on the smart of afflicti…

As for the manner of the making and framing of the human nature of Christ, it was miraculous; not by generation according to the ordinary course of nature, but by an extraordinary operation of the Holy Ghost above nature: and for this cause, it is not within the compass of man's…

So are allowed in the Scriptures the use of the Bow (2 Samuel 1:18), of Music (Nehemiah 7:67), of hunting (Canticles 2:7) but so as we do not stir up, or provoke Christ with it. Lastly, for the exercise of wit, honest riddles (Judges 14). Rules for the better understanding of ev…

Sect. 24 Thirdly; There are sundry Instances of his adding to the Gifts of the Mind, whereby he qualified Persons for their Duties, even bodily strength When that also was needful for the Work whereunto he called them; Such was his Gift to Sampson. His bodily strength was supern…

In those sufferings of Christ, was laid the foundation of all that glorious victory that he has already obtained over Satan, in the overthrow of his heathenish kingdom, in the Roman Empire, and all the success the gospel has had since; and also of all his future and still more g…

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What are the promises, but divine cordials to revive fainting souls. A gracious heart goes feeding on a promise, as Samson on the honeycomb (Judges 14:9). The word comforts against sickness and death (1 Corinthians 15:55).

Jacob both obeyed his father in going to Laban's house for a wife (Genesis 28:2), and also when he came to Laban asked his daughter of him (Genesis 29:18, etc.). Though Samson saw a daughter of the Philistines which pleased him well, yet would he not marry her before he had his…