Judges 19

Where should the child ease all its cares, but in the bosom of its parent? (Judges 19:20) Let all your wants lie upon me. So God seems to say to his children, let all your wants lie upon me.

Secondly, that we may be able to reprove and censure them. Consider the matter, consult, and give sentence (Judges 19:30). Thirdly, that we may follow their good example.

In every cause, when passion presently demands judgment, meekness moves for further time, and will have the matter fairly argued, and counsel heard on both sides. When the injured Levite had pitched upon a very barbarous course to irritate the tribes of Israel (who commonly were…

Some wives pretend that they cannot endure the smoke of the city, others that they cannot endure the air of the country: whereas indeed their own humor and conceit troubles them more than either city smoke or country air. I cannot call such the daughters of Sarah herein: they ar…

Sometimes it signifies to keep in safe custody; so keep your heart — lock it up safe, that it may be forthcoming when God calls for it. Your heart: the heart is taken diversely in scripture — sometimes for the vital part (Judges 19:5), for the soul (Deuteronomy 13:3), for the mi…