Numbers 25

Praise is the quit-rent we pay to God; while God renews our lease, we must renew our rent. 12. We glorify God by being zealous for his name (Numbers 25:11): Phinehas has turned my wrath away, while he was zealous for my sake. Zeal is a mixed affection, a compound of love and ang…

There is the habit of faith, and the drawing of this habit into exercise: For a Christian to graft his hope of salvation only upon the stock of Christ's righteousness, and make Christ all in justification; to live on the promises as the bee on the flower, and suck out the sweetn…

Cor 10:8. meaning of the common sort, excluding those that were hanged vp: for in all there were 24 thousand. Num 25:9. Thus the contrarieti[•] which seemes to be between those two places, may be better accorded, then to say (as some doe) that the pen-men, or scribes, failed in…

Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness, than this — that the blessed Spirit who has undertaken to dwell in them as temples of God, and to preserve…

15. A godly man is a zealous man; grace turns a Saint into a Seraphim, it makes him burn in holy zeal; zeal is a mixed affection, a compound of love and anger, it carries forth our love to God, and anger against sin in the most intense manner. Zeal is the flame of the affections…