Revelation 5

How does this make heaven ring of the saints' praises? They sing Hallelujahs to Christ their Savior (Revelation 5:9). They sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals; for you were slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood.

His scepter (Hebrews 1:8), A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. 3. His escutcheon, or coat of arms, he gives the Lion in his arms (Revelation 5:5), The lion of the tribe of Judah. And he is, the text says, 〈in non-Latin alphabet〉, King of Kings.

If a man redeem another out of debt, will not he be grateful? How deeply do we stand obliged to Christ, who has redeemed us from hell and damnation (Revelation 5:9): And they sang a new song, saying, you are worthy to take the book, and open the seals, for you were slain, and ha…

Many are full of murmurings and discontents, but seldom do they bring glory to God by giving him the praise due to his name. We read of the saints having harps in their hand (Revelation 5:8): the emblem of praise: many have tears in their eyes, and complaints in their mouth, but…

Christ takes the dross out of our prayer, and presents nothing to his Father but pure gold. Christ mingles his sweet odors with the prayers of the saints (Revelation 5:8). Think of the dignity of his person, he is God; and the sweetness of his relation, he is a Son.

Psalm 71:8. Let my mouth be filled with your praise, and with your honor all the day. Revelation 5:13. Blessing, honor, glory and power be to him that sits upon the throne. Blessing God is honoring of God.

There is much ascribed to Christ's intercession, but his intercession had not prevailed with God for the forgiveness of one sin, had he not shed his blood. It is worth our notice, that when Christ is described to John as an intercessor for his church, he is represented to him in…

And when they were to publish the birth of the Messiah, they begin on this manner, glory to God in the highest heavens, peace on earth. And John in his vision heard the angels about the throne, crying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb, etc. to receive power, riches, and stre…

The saints departed pray to God by giving thanks to him for their own redemption and for the redemption of the whole Church of God upon earth. Revelation 5:8-9: The four beasts and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, and they sang a new song: You are worthy to take…

It's the peculiarity of grace that commends it to the souls of believers, and makes it wonderful to them; that God should have taken notice of them that were by nature separate from God as well as others; that their case being common, his love should be peculiar, is indeed just…

That which is a great ground of thankfulness for election, effectual calling, justification, etc. is because these mercies are peculiar; even so that which makes the redeemed thankful for redemption, is because they are redeemed and bought when others are left. Hence is that son…

Third, because without this, people can never love Christ; for it is this benefit of justification, and pardon of sin, that much engages them to love and praise him. Because (say and sing the redeemed, Revelation 5:9) "You have redeemed us to God by your blood, you are worthy to…

This way of justification makes Christ's death wondrous lovely, and it is on this that the song of the redeemed is founded (Revelation 1:5). To him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and has made us kings and priests to God, and his Father, to him be glo…

It is of as many as are justified — the iniquities of such He bore, and of no more. 2. It serves to provoke you that have gotten in Christ this privilege, to be very thankful; this is it that makes the song of praise heartsome (Revelation 5:9): "You have redeemed us to God by yo…

5. Shall that grand expression of the special love of God be made common, by extending it to all the world, the greatest profligates and atheists not excepted, not Pharaoh, nor Ahab, not Judas the traitor, nor Julian the Apostate, in fact, nor any of all the damned reprobates wh…

3. Of two equally disposed and fitted for conversion, though none be fitted aright, he calls one of mere grace, and not the other. 4. Grace is so great that, (Revelation 5:11) when ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, are set on work to sing, (verse 12) W…

All these say Christ is no niggard of grace. And 4. can they not wear and out-spend their harps, who fall down before the Lamb (Revelation 14) and (Revelation 5:8) who with a loud voice, praise the grace of God. Verse 12: For ever and ever?

So (Deuteronomy 10:20): "You shall fear the Lord your God, and serve him." Christ expounds it (Luke 4:8) exclusively: "You shall serve only the Lord," because it is the prerogative of God to be worshipped, as it is a prerogative of grace to be the ransomed and redeemed of God (D…

And the Apostle affirmes this of his humane nature, (as was said) for he speaks of that nature that was tempted here below. And therefore the Lambe that was slaine, and so the man Christ Jesus, is Revelation 5:6 said to have seven eyes, as well as seven hornes; which seven eyes…

Our enemy is vigilant and strong, it is enough for us, that our Redeemer is merciful and faithful in succoring the tempted, and able to master the tempter, and defeat all his methods. Christ has conquered him both as a Lamb and as a Lion (Revelation 5:5, 8). The notion of a Lamb…

Oh fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken, ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to have entered into his glory. 6. The redemption of the church by Christ is the talk and discourse we shall have in heaven, the angels and glorified spir…

Nor yet remembering that the Scripture has great majesty joined with simplicity, and as great difficulty mixed with plainness and facility; and therefore not unfittingly resembled by Saint Gregory to the main ocean in which the lamb may wade and the elephant may swim. For the Sp…

But now all are indifferently received. Some expound this place generally, that the Gentiles shall be priests: that is to say, shall offer themselves to God; for so the scriptures in many places calls all by the name of a royal priesthood: (Exodus 19:6), (1 Peter 2:9), (Revelati…

But he who pays a man's debt for him, and so delivers him from slavery, cannot be said to purchase an estate for him, merely because he sets him at liberty, so that henceforth he has an opportunity to get an estate by his own labor. So that according to this scheme, the saints i…

Revelation 5:5-6 — And one of the elders said to me, Weep not; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals. And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in…

The continuation of all your mercies and comforts, outward as well as inward, is the fruit of his Intercession in Heaven for you. For look, as the offering up of the Lamb of God a Sacrifice for sin, opened the door of mercy at first; so his appearing before God as a Lamb that ha…

But as the Sacrifices of Beasts could not have been before the entrance of sin, so it may be evidenced that they were instituted from the foundation of the world, that is presently after the entrance of sin. Christ is called the Lamb of God, Johnn 1:29. which he was in reference…

And since the reformation, the church's persecutions have been beyond all that ever were before. Though some parts of God's church sometimes have had rest, yet to this day, for the most part, the true church is very much kept under by its enemies, and some parts of it under grie…

If God shut up a man, who can open (Job 12:14)? As there was none found in heaven or earth, that could open the seals of that book (Revelation 5:5), so is there no opening by the hand of the most able and skillful ministry, those seals of hardness, blindness and unbelief, thus i…

Our Lord Jesus was more admired for his controlling and commanding the unclean spirits, than for any other of the cures he wrought: Unruly passions are unclean spirits, legions of which some souls are possessed with, and desperate outrageous work they make: The soul becomes like…

He is therefore called the Lamb of God, for his meekness, and patience, and inoffensiveness, and even in his exaltation, he retains the same character. One of the elders told John (Revelation 5:5) that the Lion of the tribe of Judah would open the sealed book; and I beheld (says…

This indeed is called a reward, but it is the reward of another manner of righteousness then our own; were it that there were no other righteousness but our own, though our own should be true righteousness, the reward would never come to this height; but this is first the reward…

2 Corinthians 5:14-15: the love of Christ constrains us. Fourth, they consider him as God equal with his Father, to whom all honor and obedience is due, Revelation 5:14. This then the saints do in all their obedience — they have a special regard to their dear Lord Jesus.

They not only bow down and desire to look into the mystery of the cross, 1 Peter 1:12, but worship and praise him always on this account. Revelation 5:11-14: I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne — the living creatures and the elders, the number of them being t…

He redeemed us from the Curse of the law, by being made a Curse for us, Galatians 3:13. He redeemed us also by his precious Blood as of a Lamb without Blemish or Spot from our vain Conversation or Slavery to Sin, 1 Peter 1:18, 19 and Thou art worthy, for thou wast slain, and has…

And therefore ought by no means to be neglected by Christian priests, that is by any that are Christians. Another spiritual sacrifice is, The Prayers of the Saints (Revelation 5:8) (Psalm 141:2). Let my Prayer be set forth before you as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as…

Surely our assemblies should more resound with the praises of God. In church worship, there should be a mixture of harps, which are instruments of praise, as well as vials full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints (Revelation 5:8). But usually we thrust gratulation, tha…

All your works shall praise you, O Lord: and your saints shall bless you. Praise relates to God's excellence, and blessing to his benefits: his works declare his excellence; but his saints (which are sensible of his benefits) they bless him; they count him worthy of all honor an…

Indeed, mourn for it in cases of dubious anxiety. John wept when the book of the seven seals was not opened (Revelation 5:4). Mourn over your ignorance; refer all to practice (John 7:17).

We must never look for such mercy and grace from God as shall discharge us from our duty and subjection to God, or give you liberty to dishonor and disobey him. No, Christ redeemed us to God (Revelation 5), and (Luke 1:74-75). Salvation is our benefit, obedience is God's right a…

The creation witnesses against sin, with respect to God and man: for, 1. It teaches man many duties. 2. It convicts man of many a sin. The creatures teach man his duty in general, and many special ones: in general, they do all in their courses and places praise God, and fulfill…

And he gave himself that he [illegible] deliver us from this present [illegible] world (Galatians 1:4). And again (Revelation 5:9), he was slain and [illegible] bought us [illegible] his blood to God the Father. So that by way of purchase he has bought us from ourselves — that i…

Answer: The Law and Covenant of Works is a rule of everlasting righteousness, and so may be called an everlasting righteousness containing precepts of the Law of nature intrinsically good, such as to know, love, fear, and trust in him as the only true God: and in this sense it i…

Titus 3:3. We ourselves were also sometimes foolish, disobedient, etc. Indeed the glorified cannot before the Throne sing the glory of the Lamb slain and the price of Redemption paid (Revelation 5:12), to redeem them from sin, but there must be even in glory, this sense of their…

1 John 1:8: The blood of Jesus Christ purges us from all sin. Revelation 5:9: And they sang a new song (to wit, the four beasts and the four and twenty elders) — for you were slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood. 1 Peter 1:18: By his stripes (which he suffered in his…

And by the way we may make good use of the foul sins that fall out; for holy and clean is that hand and counsel of the Lord (Acts 2:27-28), which determined what Herod and Pilate should do: yet did the Jews with wicked hands slay and crucify him (Acts 2:23). And O what beauty of…

If Christ's Throne [illegible] removed, the Throne of the glorified cannot stand. And all along where the state of the triumphing Church is described, the Lord Jesus keeps the name of the Lamb, in reference to the mediatorial sacrifice of the Lamb of God slain for the sins of th…

Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory (Jude 21). Looking for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life (Revelation 5:9). You have redeemed us to God by your blood, etc. (Ac…

Now this must be given to Christ by promise (Galatians 3:16). Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made, he says not, and to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to your seed, which is Christ: He cannot well mean mystical Christ, that is, Christ and all his, for they a…

3. Infinite wisdom also requires that justice and righteousness (under the name of mercy we comprehend free and rich grace) may meet, and peace and righteousness may kiss each other (Psalm 85:11). Hence all these attributes of glory must come forth, that a throne may be set up a…