Numbers 20

Korah and his company murmured against God, and see how the Lord interprets this (Numbers 17:10): Bring Aaron's rod to be kept for a token against the rebels: To be a murmurer and a rebel is in God's account all one. Numbers 20:13: This is the water of Meribah, because the child…

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. The word signifies, they made haste, took it ill, they were not presently brought into that plenty, that was promised (Numbers 20:5). Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evi…

Therefore we are commanded in persecution to sanctify God in our hearts (1 Peter 3:17). And Moses, because he failed in the doing of this duty, was barred the land of Canaan (Numbers 20:12). In England God has wrought his wondrous works among us.

And yet the Prophet condemns not only the men of his age, but those also of the ages before. For we see that under the conduct of Moses himself, they rebelled and murmured against God (Exodus 17:2; Numbers 20:3). Hence it came, that God who tenderly loved them, as it is in verse…

Now in that arrangement, Abijah, son of Eleazar, held the eighth rank, (1 Chronicles 24:10.) Zacharias, therefore, belonged to the priestly family, and to the posterity of Eleazar who had succeeded his father in the high priest's office, (Numbers 20:28.) In what manner Elisabeth…

Even then when there may be occasion for a keenness of expression, and we are called to rebuke sharply ([illegible], cuttingly) (Titus 1:2), yet meekness forbids all fury and indecency of language, and everything that sounds like clamor and evil speaking (Ephesians 4:31). The me…

To glorify God, is, to do that which simply and absolutely tends to the manifestation of his excellency, without any relation to the creature: but to sanctify God, is, to set God above the creature, to do that which tends to exalt his greatness and excellency from and above all…

What a blessed frame of heart is this? A contented Christian is an advocate for God against unbelief and impatience; whereas discontent takes every thing from God in the worst sense; it does implead and censure God: this evil I feel is but a symptom of greater evil: God is about…

David is often fainting in misery, yet by and by revived. Therefore there is good cause why the consideration of repentance and the combat should go together, that no man, after he has begun to repent, might dream of ease to his flesh, as though we should go to heaven in beds of…

It is the want of faith that keeps good things from us; Christ could not do many things among them, because of their unbelief (Mark 6:5). Unbelief kept Moses and Aaron out of the promised land (Numbers 20:12), and the prince from tasting of the plenty (2 Kings 7, last verse). Al…