Ruth 1

It was a curse (Genesis 3:16): in sorrow you shall bring forth. Many things occasion sorrow; sickness, law-suits, treachery of friends, disappointment of hopes, loss of estate (Ruth 1:20). Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again e…

As there was but one ark to save the world from drowning, so there is but one Jesus to save sinners from damning. As Naomi said to her daughters-in-law (Ruth 1:11), Are there yet any more sons in my womb? So has God any other sons in the womb of his eternal decree, to be saviors…

2. If Israel be sometimes in the house of bondage, in an afflicted state, then think beforehand of affliction; say not as Job 29:18, I shall die in my nest. In the house of mirth, think of the house of bondage; you that are now Naomi, may be Marah (Ruth 1:20). How quickly may th…

[illegible], Menand. To have an estate boiled away almost to nothing, is hard to flesh and blood (Ruth 1:20): Call me not Naomi but Mara: I went out full and the Lord has brought me home again empty. This exposes to contempt.

In Abraham's family, his bond-men and servants were circumcised, and made members of the Church of GOD. And in Moses' days Jethro Moses' father in Law, a Priest of Midian, obtained this at Gods hands, to be joined unto Gods Church: and so was Ruth the Moabite, Ruth 1.16: and Naa…

Conclusion 1. We hold that Christian charity is to extend itself to the very dead, and it must show itself in their honest burial, in the preservation of their good names, and in the help and relief of their posterity as time and occasion shall be offered (Ruth 1:8; John 19:23).…

Sometimes he suggests hard thoughts of God. Ruth 1:20: The Lord has dealt very bitterly with me. Yes, that he has dealt more severely with us than with any other.

Ruth loued Naomi, and claue to her as to her own mother. Ruth 1:16. Christ was subiect to Ioseph who was but a reputed father.

Now we must diligently observe the words, because both Hebrews and Christians interpret this place amiss. Saint Jerome expounds it of Jesus Christ, because he descended from the Moabites, of whom Ruth came (Ruth 1:4; Matthew 1:5) and the most part of Christian expositors follow…

Ruth 1:16 — And Ruth said, Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. The things that we have the history of in this book of Ruth seem to be inser…

How many thousands have complained with Naomi, whose condition has been so strangely altered, that others have said as the people of Bethlehem did of her, Is this Naomi? Ruth 1. 19, 20, 21. These Vicissitudes of Providence commonly cause great disorders of spirit in the best men.

After great enjoyments, want is greatest: emptiness presses those most, who once were full. I went out full (says Naomi, Ruth 1:21.) and the Lord has brought me home empty, therefore call me not Naomi (which is pleasant,) but Marah which is bitter, for the Almighty has dealt ver…

Such was the state with Naomi; When from a full and plentiful condition, she went into a strange Countrey with an Husband and two Sons, where they all dyed, leaving her destitute and poor; Hence in her account of Gods dealing with her, she sayes, call me not Naomi (that is pleas…

Ruth's Resolution. RUTH 1:16. And Ruth said, entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge; your People shall be my People and your God my God. THE Things that we have the History of in this Book…

God will allow none, I can bear none, no not the sting of the least sin, when God will let it in, nor you neither when once the Lord will pursue you with the least expression of his displeasure, I cannot have any sin seem it never so small, but I must [illegible] under the power…

We cannot promise ourselves always calm days; the cup which now runs over with wine may be filled with the waters of bitterness. Ruth 1:21: I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home empty. How many have we seen who were invested with great possessions, who have on a sudd…

He can make more worlds, but he has only one Son. As Naomi said to her daughters: are there any more sons in my womb? (Ruth 1:11) God cannot give a greater gift than Christ; for in giving Christ, he gives himself to us.

Are there any more Saviors to die for the soul? As Naomi said to her daughters: are there yet any more sons in my womb? (Ruth 1:11) Has God any more sons, or will he send his Son again into the world?

2 How do sinners persevere in their sins, they are settled on their lees, Zephaniah 1. 12. The judgments of God will not deter or remove them; they say to their sin, as Ruth to Naomi, Ruth 1. 16. Where you go, I will go, the Lord do so to me, and more, if anything but death part…

I have made you base and contemptible. Trading is brought low; many men's estates are boiled to nothing; their gourd is withered, their cruse of Oil fails, Ruth 1.21. I went out full, but the Lord has brought me home empty.

Thirdly, there is another bitterness caused by a man looking upon Christ, and that is by reason of the loss of Christ: we never either had attained to him, or else now we have lost him; now we see we have no portion in Christ, and that is bitter to our souls (Jeremiah 2:19). A m…