Micah 4

(2) Because, they are hurtful and noxious, choaking and hindering good fruits, that otherwise would thrive in the field. So are thorns and briars represented in the Scripture as grieving, piercing and hurtful, and things that are so called by their name (Ezekiel 28:24; Micah 4:4…

How wonderful was it, that when the Israelites were abominated by the Egyptians, God should so order their hearts, that the Egyptians should lend them gold and jewels, and dismiss them with wealth as well as safety; and not so much as one person molest them, till they arrived at…

And here lies the difference between the law and the Gospel: the law is from Sinai, the gospel from Zion or Jerusalem. For there it was first to be preached, and from there conveyed to all nations (Micah 4:1; Ezekiel 47:1). The second propertie of the law is, that it gendrs to b…

And so the prophets describe it as peculiar to his reign, that, “they shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid,” (Micah 4:4.) 75. In holiness and righteousness As the rule of a good life has been reduced by God to two tables, (E…

And though shortly afterwards it was totally overthrown, yet even in the present day the fulfillment of this prophecy is manifest; for, since out of Zion, went forth the law, (Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:2,) those who wish to pray aright must look to that beginning.

Again by Balaam the same words are used to signify the same time (Numbers 24:14), where they are rendered [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], in the end of the days, as many Copies read in this place. And in all the Prophets this is the peculiar notation of that season, [⟨in non-Latin al…

He was also to be pierced (chapter 12:10), being the Shepherd (chapter 13:7), the King as the Targum, that was to be smitten with the sword of the Lord. The Judge of Israel that was to be smitten with the rod on the cheek (Micah 4:1), all denoting his persecution and suffering.…

To this purpose they urge the prophecy recorded (Isaiah 2:2, 3, 4): And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it; and many…

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…

Genesis 35:21. Occasion of the mention of the Messiah in that place, from Micah 4:8. Genesis 49:1.

3. The words hold out that there is an infallible certainty in this truth; we have here Christ's verdict of it — he in his reckoning counts believers so, and he cannot be mistaken. 4. There is the cause why the Bride is so strong and stately: he makes her so; and so these words,…

The promise is, I will get me to the mountain of Myrrh, and to the hill of Frankincense: by this in general, [reconstructed: it is] understood no withdrawing of Christ's, or shutting of himself up in heaven from her; for, that will not agree to the scope, which is to show how he…

And verse 26. I have declared to them your name, and will declare it; that is, I have instructed them in the true religion, and right worship of the great God. And so it is taken likewise (Micah 4:5), All people will walk every one in the name of his God, and we will walk in the…

"They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them." And in Micah 4:4. "But they shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid."

The other Thing professed in Swearing into the Lord was Obedience, called walking in the Name of the Lord. Micah 4:5. All People will walk every one in the Name of his God, and we will walk in the Name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

But considering it more seriously, I saw the necessity of another sense, for this is but the result and effect of the former phrase, now it seems to be added for the greater emphasis, and aggravation of the mercy, that there should be not only one Lord but one Name: therefore wh…

The noise of Axe and Hammers does but square stones for the Temple, that they may lie the more evenly in the buildings; usually we find that Religious controversies (like the knocking of flints) yield more light, and by the providence of God occasion more sincere love, before we…

In the universal judgment, which the Father has committed to him over all: which he will most eminently exercise at the last day; rewarding, crowning, receiving some to himself, judging, condemning, casting others into utter darkness (John 5:22, 27; Acts 2:36; Romans 14:9; Acts…

Proposition 1. The Lord in his holy providence has so permitted it, that there ever have been, and are, and (for ought we can see) will be controversies about the way of truth and right worship. There was such a disease introduced into the world by the [reconstructed: fall], tha…

This [reconstructed: looks] like poverty, to believe the other mystery in the other side or page of Providence, [illegible] glory of dividing the Red Sea, and of giving seven mighty nations to his people, and their buildings, lands, vineyards, gardens, is a strong faith. 2. The…