Nahum

Christ's sword on his thigh is able to avenge all his quarrels: it is not good to stir a lion. Let not men provoke the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, whose eyes are as a lamp of fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him (Nahum 1:6). He shall cut off the spirit of princes (Psalm 76…

What hurt can they do to the Deity? God is a Spirit, and therefore cannot receive any hurtful impression: wicked men may imagine evil against the Lord (Nahum 1:9). What do you imagine against the Lord? But God being a Spirit, is impenetrable.

He has power to cast our souls and bodies into Hell; (Psalm 90:11) Who knows the power of his wrath? God can with the same breath that made us, dissolve us; his eyes are as a flame of fire; the rocks are thrown down by him (Nahum 1:6). Solomon says, Where the word of a king is,…

7. Ult. Such as do not hallow God's name, but profane and dishonor it, God will pour contempt upon them; though they be never so great, and though clothed in purple and scarlet, yet they are abhorred of God, and their name shall rot. Though the name of Judas be in the Bible, and…

Though the Beast in Revelation has seven heads, a reaching wisdom, and ten horns, a mighty power (both the numbers of seven and ten being numbers of perfection in Scripture), yet with all his wisdom and strength he shall tumble down to destruction; they can no more resist God's…

God will put a hook in his nostrils; now who would be afraid of a beast that has a hook put into his nostrils? Ninthly, they are as stubble, and as stubble fully dry, ready for the fire, in Nahum 1:10. Tenthly, they are as rottenness, and their root is rottenness (Isaiah 5:24).

2. Faith comes not by hearing the creatures preach Christ. 3. The Prophets and Apostles, not the dumb and lifeless creatures have pleasant feet on the Mountains to preach peace, as it is verses 14-16, cited from Isaiah 52:7 and Nahum 1:15. But the native sense of the words, vers…

The point being a matter of sense, and evident by natural light, needs not to be proved so much as improved. 1. Scripture represents him as such (Daniel 9:4): he is called the great and dreadful God, so (Deuteronomy 7:21): a mighty God and terrible, and (Nahum 1:5): a great and…

Then, one man shall chase a thousand, and a thousand shall put ten thousand to flight (Deuteronomy 28). He is as a mighty river, that carries all before it (Nahum 1). Therefore regard the enmity of the creature as small things; his enmity alone is to be respected.

Meekness preserves the mind from being ruffled, and discomposed, and the spirit from being unhinged by the vanities and vexations of this lower world: it stills the noise of the sea, the noise of her waves, and the tumult of the soul; permits not the passions to crowd out in a d…

He has uttered his Voice in those stormy Winds, and spoken in a terrible manner by them; yet how little have I been affected with it? The Lord has his way in the whirlwind, and in the storm, Nahum 1:3. To some he has walked in ways of Judgment and Wrath, sending them down in a m…

Believers in regard of their mystical union with Christ, have a preciousness above the Angels: the Angels are Morning Stars, Job 38, 7. Believers are clothed with the Sun of Righteousness, Revelation 12:1. See the different Opinion that God has of the Godly and the Wicked: the o…

Thus Jeremiah is said to be set over the people and nations — not indeed because he received earthly dominion, but such dignity and authority from the Lord that even kings themselves ought to submit to it, and God wished them to be obeyed no less than anyone from the lowest clas…

He gives protection when it is necessary. (Nahum 1:7) The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those that trust in him. (Ezra 6:22) The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him.

If we want direction, in the text it is said, You are good, and do good; teach me your statutes. If we want support and deliverance (Nahum 1:7): The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows them that trust in him. In every strait the people of God find him…

Yes, he can torture them by his essential wrath. And that God, who, as the prophet Nahum speaks, can melt mountains, and make hills and rocks flow down at his presence (Nahum 1:6), can melt the souls of the damned like lumps of wax; for in his displeasure he does sometimes do it…

He thinks either that God does not see or cannot punish. The mountains quake before the Lord, the hills melt, the rocks are thrown down by him (Nahum 1:5). But the hearts of sinners are more obstinate than the rocks.

When Saul was sorely distressed (1 Samuel 28:15), could all the jewels of his crown comfort him? If God be angry, whose fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him (Nahum 1:6), can a wedge of gold be a screen to keep off this fire? Ezekiel 7:19: They shall…

Sure Paul must give a dark interpretation (Romans 10) of that Psalm. Second, if the hearing (Romans 10:18) — "But I say, have they not heard?" — be the hearing of God as Creator, his sounding [illegible] in the firmament, night, day, and sun, as it is (Psalm 19:4), by all that s…

As (Proverbs 3:29): Plow not evil against your neighbor. (Hosea 10:13) You have plowed iniquity, such plots are forged against the people of God (Matthew 27:1; Nahum 1:11). 9. A proud heart (1.) resisted of God.

Did he give you wages to serve the Devil? 8. Sin is a debasing thing; it degrades a person of his honor, (Nahum 1:14). I will make your grave, for you are vile.

Who consults his own shame, Habakkuk 2:10. who loves death, Proverbs 8:36. 5. The ungodly are vile persons, Nahum 1:14. I will make your grave, for you are vile. It makes men base, it blots their name, it taints their blood, Psalm 14:3. They are altogether become filthy: In the…

Now if a sinner be thus impious, as to endeavor to bring God low, no wonder if God brings him low. Nahum 1.19. I will make your grave, for you are vile.

When the dumb creatures melt as wax and vanish away at his presence when he is angry, as the huge mountains and rocks do, frail man must never look to stand. If the roaring of a lion makes men afraid and the voice of thunder is terrible, oh, how exceedingly should all be astonis…

Because he does nothing against you for the present, do you think he can do nothing? Nahum 1:3. He is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not acquit the wicked. There is a day coming, when the Son of man shall come in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.

A God all of mercy is an idol, such a God as men set up in their own imaginations; but not the true God, whom the Scriptures describe. To such persons the Scripture describes him after another manner (Nahum 1:2): God is jealous, the Lord revengeth and is furious, the Lord will t…

Thirdly, because they think they can bear God's wrath, though they do conceive it near at hand, even at the very doors: men think not that Hell is so hot, nor the devil so black, nor God so terrible as in deed he is. And hence we shall observe the Prophets present God's wrath as…

Moses forsook the pleasures of sin for a season (Hebrews 11:25). Nor yet by not feeling any punishment for it, for God reserves wrath (Nahum 1:2) till the day of reckoning. Nor yet by the esteem that others generally have of it, who make no more of wounding the Son of God by sin…

Houses that were wont in every room of them to be fill'd with furniture so brave and glistering, now the owners come into their houses and look upon the bare walls and see them empty of all the rich furniture that was in them; Oh! what empty chests, that were fill'd with such br…

And from there they that abuse it to their lusts, are said to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness (Jude 4), that is, the doctrine of it, which is the Gospel. And therefore under the Old Testament, it is called the preaching or declaring of glad tidings, tidings of peace, a…

Job you see was upright, though he had so many sons and so many daughters to provide for. It is ill with those whose gain for their children is any loss to their souls; but woe, when any to gain for their children lose their souls: doing like those in (Nahum 2:12). The lion did…

1. Satan can send in posts with letters, and write his [illegible], his wiles to the heart. This is one way of putting it in the heart of Judas to betray Christ, by sending his mind and will through the fancy to the heart, and the fancy being set on work by the will and understa…

So a covetous man, having had a relish of the world, pursues after it, and never leaves till he has got it; but he neglects the things of eternity. He could be content if salvation would drop into his mouth, as a ripe fig drops into the mouth of the eater (Nahum 3:12). But he is…

Heaven gate is not like that [reconstructed: iron]-gate, which opened to Peter of its own accord (Acts 12:10). Heaven is not like those ripe figs which fall into the mouth of the eater (Nahum 3:12). No, there must be taking pains.

For albeit it was often laid waste before, yet he never built it up again wholly, but only repaired it. Now it appears by the third chapter of Nahum (Nahum 3:8) that it was once a free city, and had league with the Egyptians, being as greatly renowned as any city in the world. H…

Now he compares this warlike people to caterpillars, because they should have no power to resist, but shall tremble and be so overtaken with fear, that they shall be taken up by troops and heaps. The similitude is very fit: and Nahum uses it (Nahum 3:15), even though somewhat in…

The same word here used in the text, by a metaphor, signifies to mourn or compassionate the afflictions and miseries of another. So (Nahum 3:6), Nineveh is laid waste, who will be moan her? And (Isaiah 51:19), these two things are come to you, who shall be sorry for you?

19. A nineteenth sin of London is lying. It is said of Nineveh (Nahum 3:1) that it was a city full of lies. O the lies that have been in London! who can reckon them?

6. The Fig-tree easily parts with its fruits when they are ripe, for the use of such as come to gather them. A little wind, or an easy shaking of the tree, makes them to fall (Nahum 3:12), if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater. Thus should Professors be…

Is that a fit posture for him that is to run a race? They stretch themselves upon their couches (Amos 6:4) — they had rather lie soft than run hard. Many would have heaven come to them, but they are loath to run to it; if salvation would drop as a ripe fig into the mouth of the…

The idle Christian is like a soldier that has a good mind to the spoil and treasure of a castle, but is loth to put himself to any trouble, or hazard. Men could be content to have salvation if it would (like those ripe figs) fall into the mouth of the eater (Nahum 3:12). The slu…