Nahum 1

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…

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…

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…