Malachi 1

There is some kind of justice, that they should have a temporal reward: God lets them prosper, under whose wing his people are sheltered. God will not be in any man's debt; (Malachi 1:10) Who has kindled a fire on my altar for nothing? 2. God lets men go on in sin and prosper, t…

It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of that honor we owe to God (Malachi 1:6). If I am a Father, where is my honor?

A child of God seeing a supereminency of goodness, and a constellation of all beauties in God, he is carried out in love to him in the highest measure: As God gives his children such a love as he does not bestow upon the wicked, electing love; so God's children give God such a l…

So when we are in God's presence, and God is speaking to us in his Word, and we mind not much what he says, but our hearts go after covetousness (Ezekiel 33:31), will not this anger God to be thus slighted? God has pronounced a curse upon such; (Malachi 1:14) Cursed be the decei…

Use 1. If we are to honor our fathers on earth, then much more our Father in Heaven. Malachi 1:6. If then I am a Father, where is my honor? A father is but the instrument of conveying life, but God is the original cause of our being.

Qu. 8. How many we sanctify the name of God in the use of Gospel institutions? Answ. 1. By a holy reverence of his sovereign authority appointing of them. 2. A holy regard to his special presence in them. 3. Faith in his promises annexed to them. 4. Delight in his will, wisdom,…

Whereupon, David speaking as a King, says, Psalm 60:8, Moab shall be my washpot, over Edom will I cast my shoe: meaning thereby, that he would bring the posterity of Esau into a base and low estate of subjection unto him; according as we may see verified, 2 Samuel 8:14. But some…

And that appears thus. (1) If it were from servile fear only, they would in time grow weary of God's [illegible]ways, as many do (Malachi 1:13 & Isaiah 43:22). It is true, there is often some, yes much servile fear in a child of God, and there is also a weariness in spiritual wo…

If he then must reign, we must be his subjects: and therefore here we crave, that being his subjects we may obey him, and do his will. Malachi 1:6: If I be a father where is my honor? If I be a master, where is my fear?

And hence God says, If I be a master, where is my fear? If I be a father, where is my honor (Malachi 1:6)? Where is plainly taught this second duty; that if God be our father, then as good children we must show obedience to him: but if we disobey him, then we must know, that tha…

4. A righteous man serves God out of a principle of love: grace does new bias the heart, and carry it strongly towards God in ardent affections; a righteous man's serving God is not by constraint, but consent; it is his heaven to serve God: he mounts up in the fiery chariot of l…

He was their Creator as well as yours, and we are all in our blood involved in the same condemnation; he saw as much of original sin in you as in them, we lay in the same polluted mass: oh that free grace should make such a difference! He had as much reason to choose Judas and S…

Objection 3. Malachi 1:11: The prophet foretells of a clean sacrifice that shall be in the New Testament, and that (say they) is the sacrifice of the Mass. Answer: This place must be understood of a spiritual sacrifice, as we shall plainly perceive if we compare it with 1 Timoth…

And yet this fear of punishment, if it be tempered and mingled with other graces and gifts of God in holy men, is not unprofitable — in whom there is not only a sorrow for punishment but also and much more for the offense. Such a kind of fear or sorrow is commanded in Malachi 1:…

There are many hearers, that hear sermon after sermon, the most ravishing truths of the gospel displayed in the most affecting and charming manner, in the highest strains of divine rhetoric to gain their affections; and yet to this day never come up to that with the stony-ground…

This is the way of backsliders in heart; as they grow in sin, they decay in prayer, until they are weary of it, and utterly relinquish it. So they speak (Malachi 1:13), Behold what a weariness it is, and you have snuffed at it. They look on it as a task, as a burden, and are wea…

Vers. 11. Behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in the Land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Word of the Lord. God hath fed this Nation with the finest of the wheat, even the bread of life, we have had the Cream of Or…

If he then must reign we must be his subjects: and therefore, here we crave, that being his subjects, we may obey him, and do his will. Malachi 1:6. If I be a Father, where is mine honor? If I be a master, where is my fear? 2. The meaning.

The bread for their soul.] That is; When they are seeking God even for their very lives. By bread, is to be understood, their oblations more generally, not only bread, but their oblations, as (Malachi 1:7) "You offer polluted bread upon mine Altar": it's taken generally for all…

When God comes against them in ways of wrath, now they can acknowledge that they feared not God; should the Prophet have come to them before and told them, Oh! you are a wretched vile people, there is no fear of God among you. Why, wherein do not we fear God? as in (Malachi 1) t…

And then further, you shall find that in the Gospel there is a prophesy of the Altar that the Church shall have, in Ezekiel 41:22. The Altar that was in the Law, the text says, it was to be a cubit long, and a cubit broad; but that which must be in the time of the Gospel, must b…

Agreeable to this, the Gospel is represented as preached to them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and tongue, and kindred, and people (Revelation 14:6). The universality of the prevalence of true religion in the latter days, is sometimes expressed by its reaching to…

To require this obedience from creatures, it is sufficient that God be set before them as the supreme and best Lord — nothing more is required. He therefore demands fear and worship, because He is Adon (that is, the Lord of all) (Malachi 1:6, “If I am the Lord, where is My fear?…

The apostates do not deny this. But when the Messiah came, the last of the prophets foretold that a pure offering would be made to God everywhere, throughout the whole world (Malachi 1:11). And lest anything should be lacking to the establishment of this truth — which brings the…

In this we should delight and grow as the chiefest knowledge (Jeremiah 9:23, 24). Here is forbidden, first atheism, to persuade our heart there is no such true God in heaven (Psalm 14:1; Exodus 5:2); mockers of him and his works (2 Peter 3:4, 5, etc.); those that oppose themselv…

His Sacraments (Matthew 5:6). Also true prayer is the honoring of his name, and evil the profaning of the same (Genesis 4:26; Malachi 1:11-12). Therefore here he comprehends all these, and forbids to use vainly; that is, irreverently, rashly, falsely, or hypocritically, lightly…

And 1. Christ's seed have another original than that which they bring with them into the world; there is in them a change of the ground of their hope; and that on a new account; folk comes into the world sinful, children of sinful parents; but when they come to be believers they…

(Isaiah 59:19) So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. (Malachi 1:11) For from the rising of the sun, even to the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles, and in every place, incense shall be offe…

Consider of it, This is to make God our Prince, when we give up ourselves to serve him. There is a second thing, wherein the having of Christ for a Prince does stand: And it requires, that you do all your service to him, as to a Prince, it should all be princely service, such as…

They knew a divine power, but did not give him a worship at least competent to his nature. God pleads his right (Malachi 1:6): If I be a Father where is my honor? If I be a master where is my fear?

Thus should we see, that our best resolutions and performances come much short of the excellency and greatness of God. All formality and lifeless service proceeds from hence, that we have not due and raised thoughts of his majesty and being (Malachi 1:14): I am a great King, say…

Now that takes place, in (John 4:21): Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this Mountain, nor at Jerusalem, worship the Father, that is, God now does not so much stand upon the place, as the manner of worship, that they worship in spirit and truth (verses…

Secondly, we must use every day to bring ourselves into the presence of God, and we must do all things as in his sight, and presence, presenting ourselves to him, as instruments of his glory in doing of his will. This is the honor that the child of God owes to him (Malachi 1:6).…

Truly a very trim argument. We may easily discern that Malachi speaks there of the service of God, noting it under one of the shadows of the Law, as Isaiah does in this place (Malachi 1:11): and we ought to mark these kinds of speech diligently, which the Prophets are wont to us…

Although Tyre shall seem to be utterly destroyed when God shall afflict her, yet the Prophet shows that she shall obtain mercy, for after her calamities she shall be restored to her first glory. But it is rightly said that such a restoration shall be brought to pass by the work…

In saying then, that the wrath of the Lord against the Idumeans, resembles a fire that never goes out, he takes from them all hope of pardon: for as they ceased not to provoke him, so should they find him a severe Judge to them. And Malachi notes it as a sign of the reprobation…

But because God began not only to be a nursing father to this people from their natural birth, but also begat them spiritually; it is not amiss to extend his speech even to that, to wit, that they issued as it were out of God's womb, into newness of life, and to the hope of the…

Ishmael was rejected (Galatians 4:30). Esau was hated (Malachi 1:3). And many others were cut off.

For the First; Persons under the Power of Corrupted Nature may perform them, and doe so, but without Delight, Constancy or Permanency. The Language of that Principle whereby they are Acted is, Behold what a Wearyness it is, Mal. 1. 13. and such Hypocrites will not pray alwayes.…

Section 9. It must be granted therefore that the end of gospel commands requiring holiness is not that thereby we should be justified — God has provided another righteousness for that end which is the righteousness of Christ imputed to us (Romans 10:4); but God has appointed oth…

It is said in Isaiah, All the day long have I stretched out my hand to a rebellious people, yet they would not hear. And (Malachi 1) offer the lame and the blind to the governor, will he accept of it? Christ must needs take this unkindly, that you should give the Devil the flowe…

He sent him into the world, set him over his house, gave him command to his work. The very name and title of Father, carries authority along with it (Malachi 1:6). And in the disposal of the Church, in respect of this paternal power does the Son affirm, that the Father is greate…

But some of these, have a participation in the matter, but not in the nature of the especial Mincha. The principal signification of this offering is expressed (Isaiah 66:20) compared with (Romans 15:16); (Malachi 1:10, 11) compared with (1 Timothy 2:8). And two things in it expr…

First, by preferring the promised relief and remedy above all the present glory and worship of the Church; directing it to look above all its enjoyments to that which in all things was to have the pre-eminence. See Isaiah 2:2; chapter 4:2-5; chapter 7:13-15; chapter 9:6-7; chapt…

Oh that darkness had recovered that which in the beginning was under its power! that so my day being wrapped up in darkness, might be without form and void. But the word is frequently translated (and well here) to pollute or to stain a thing, as (Malachi 1:7). You offer polluted…

I must confess, that of all things which belong to the duty of a servant, this is the most difficult; and there is nothing that can sweeten and facilitate it, but only conscience of their duty, and the acceptance and reward which they shall find with God for it; and therefore th…

It plainly argues much profaneness in our spirits, when we bring only our outward man, our dull and heavy carcasses to attend upon God, while our hearts and minds are straying and wandering from him: this is a sign that we despise God, and account anything good enough, the lame…

There was much formality when there was no form; and I suppose that forms have not quickened to more liveliness; there was a face of worship indeed in London; and was there not only, or little more than a face in most places? God is holy and jealous, a great King, and his name i…

This the Apostle cautions us against (Hebrews 4:12, 13), and which God detests (Isaiah 29:13). And he pronounces him a deceiver, and cursed, who offers to him the lame and blind while he has a male in the flock (Malachi 1:14). Yet thus is it with us in some degree, whenever we a…

Alas, how far are they from offering violence to themselves in prayer, who give God a dead heartless prayer. God would not have the blind offered (Malachi 1:8). As good offer the blind as the dead.