Zechariah 11

Sin has blotted God's image, and stained the orient brightness of the soul. Sin makes God loathe a sinner (Zechariah 11:8), and when a sinner sees his sin, he loathes himself (Ezekiel 20:42). Sin drops poison on our holy things, it infects our prayers.

3. The necessity of being new creatures. 1. Till then we are odious to God (Zechariah 11:8). My soul loathed them.

A sinner's works are opera mortua dead works (Hebrews 1:6), and those works which are dead cannot please God; a dead flower has no sweetness. 3. We had need pray that the kingdom of grace may come, because till this kingdom come into our hearts we are loathsome in God's eyes (Ze…

If all the evils in the world were put together, and their quintessence strained out, they could not make a thing so filthy as sin does. So odious is a sinner, that God loathes the sight of him (Zechariah 11:8). My soul loathed them.

3. The new creature is a work of rare excellency. A natural man is a lump of earth and sin, God loathes him (Zechariah 11:8). But upon the new creature is a spiritual glory: As if we should see a piece of clay turned into a sparkling diamond.

The Lord this day has smote us as a reed is shaken to and fro, that which men cried up at first, they cry down again presently after, and forward for a little while, and then quite the other way again, and wavering and inconstant in all their ways, and know not indeed what they…

How remote was it from a Jew, who boasted themselves God's peculiar people, to think himself a hater of God! And what were they, of whom he says, by the prophet, loathed them; and their soul abhorred me (which is presupposed) (Zechariah 11:8), and most justly, for can there be a…

For the root of this word is not from the form which would yield a feminine, but from another, as R. D. K. teaches in the Michlol. It is therefore no wonder if this form is sometimes used in the feminine gender, as its neuter sense indicates (Zechariah 11:7); the following words…

And likewise Ezekiel 30:13; Leviticus 19:4, eidola [idols]; and Habakkuk 2:18, eidola kopa [idols] and eidola muta [mute idols]. Also Psalm 97:7, glypta [graven images], that is, "carved images"; Isaiah 19:3, theoi [gods] and agalmata [statues] — "gods and images"; Psalm 96:5, d…

Your turning of things upside-down shall be reputed as the clay [illegible] of the potter (Isaiah 29:16): from the root [illegible] to think, desire; to form a thing of clay as the potter does. From this is the potter named [illegible] (Zechariah 11:13; Genesis 2:7; Deuteronomy…

2 Corinthians 5:20. Stewards (1 Corinthians 4:1; Titus 1:7), men of God (1 Samuel 2:27; 1 Timothy 6:11), rulers (Hebrews 13:7, 17), lights (Matthew 5:14), salt (Matthew 5:13), fathers (1 Corinthians 4:15), and by many more such like terms are they described; if under these notio…

1. It may be he intended [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], a participle from [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], to sustain, to bear, to endure; as Malachi 3:2. It signifies also to feed, nourish and cherish; 1 Kings 4:7, Ruth 4:15, Zechariah 11:16. [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], that is, [⟨…

This everlasting Covenant was ratified in his blood (Hebrews 9:15), and after he had declared it in his own ministry, he caused it to be proclaimed in and by his Gospel. At the time here determined, the especial Covenant with Israel and Judah was broken (Zechariah 11:10), and th…

Just as if a thief that has sped well and has got a good prey, should thank God that he has prospered so well in his wickedness: So here (as if Job should say) my sons have done ill in their feasting, and they are so far from being humbled, that they have blessed God in their he…

9. There may be also something of God's design here, to try the humility and sincerity of his people, if they will stoop to every way he uses, because it is his; and if they will love the Word, not as so, or so proposed, but as it comes from him, and is his, and as such humbly r…

In fact, could you by one act of sin make all the treasures and delights of the whole world tributary to you; should the Devil take you when he tempts, as he took Christ, and show you all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and promise to bestow it all upon you; ye…

Nor is there any such threatening that the nation or person that commit such sins, and omit such duties, shall be punished with the want of the preached Gospel for ever, and with the want of faith and repentance: only the latter suffers an exception in persons that sin against t…

2. Not desiring of God, but an abhorring, or a soul abhorring of God hinders influences of the Spirit. 1. Are there any who abhor God? such a sad word is spoken of the Jews (Zech. 11:8): Three Shepherds also I cut off in one month, and my soul loathed them, and their soul also a…

Woe to you Romish Clergy, for you have taken away the key of knowledge, you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered. The people has perished under your hands for want of knowledge (Zechariah 11:15, 16, 17). The figment of an implicit faith, as mana…

It is fit the noblest faculty should be employed in the noblest work: this is the noblest work to praise God, therefore all that is within us must be summoned. Church adversaries took up a customary form (Zechariah 11:5): Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich. And in Nehemiah it is…

You do nothing for the Lord, and your love is very little, or else that which is, is nothing worth in God's account. Look at the practice of Judas — so [reconstructed: hellish] and detestable as not to be named nor remembered among men; and the loathsomeness that lay in the bott…

Why has Satan filled your heart? The Lord abhors a sinner, he will not come near him, having his plague-sores running (Zechariah 11:8). My soul loathed them.

He sold himself to buy the soul. Zechariah 11:12: they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. He was content not only to be sold, but to die; this enhances the price of the soul — it cost the blood of God (Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 1:19): you were not redeemed with corruptible…

But soul-diseases are symptoms of God's anger; as he is a holy God, he cannot but hate sin (Psalm 138:6): God beholds the proud from afar. God hates a sinner for his plague-sores (Zechariah 11:8): my soul loathed them. Sickness at worst only separates from the society of friends…

Its all one if the Nurse has no milk in her breasts, or having, drawes it not forth to her child. There is a wo to the Idol-shepherd, Zech. 11. such as have mouthes, but speak not; lips, but not to feed the people with knowledge. It shall be the peoples sin, if they feed not whe…

But so infants and all the rest of these Kingdoms who fixedly, in a Church, hear the Word, profess they are followers, and by so doing are witnesses against themselves that they have chosen the Lord to be their God, and have consented to the Covenant, as Joshua says (Joshua 24:2…

Which words are cited true of Christ, by Luke (Acts 13:47), when Christ is preached to the Gentiles: And as one who labored for us, so he craves his wages, though the Jews pay him unworthily. (Zechariah 11:12) Then I said, if you think good, give me my price, and if not, forbear…

There were (as historians have noted) very great factions among the Jews, when the Romans came against them. Some interpreters think, that this is hinted at Zechariah 11:8, "Three shepherds I cut off in one month": those three shepherds are thought to intend those three great he…

Some think sin an ornament, it is rather an excrement. So does sin befilthy a person, that God cannot abide the sight of him, (Zechariah 11:8). My soul loathed them.

Persons are vailed over with ignorance, and self-love, therefore see not what deformed souls they have. The Devil does with them as the Faulkner with the Hawk, blinds them, and carries them hooded to Hell, (Zechariah 11:17). The sword shall be upon his right eye.

He is without bowels. I may allude to that, Zechariah 11 verse 9. That which dies, let it die, and that which is cut off, let it be cut off.

If notwithstanding all admonitions, they will run counter to the Word, and prostitute themselves to their sordid lusts, they are felo de se, and their blood will be upon their own head. What remains, but that God should say in anger, as Zechariah 11:9. That that dies, let it die…

The Key of Knowledge, is lost in the Tree of Knowledge. Especially, in matters Sacred, we are enveloped with ignorance, The Sword is upon our right eye, Zechariah 11:16. What a little of the Sea, will a Nut-shell hold?

No, this is the ground why we mistake our evils, and reform not our ways, because we have a slight and a superficial sight of sin: a man must prove his ways as the goldsmith does his gold in the fire, a man must search narrowly, and have much light to see what the vileness of hi…

Now the Lord Jesus has made such a peace for us, as that our enemies shall not only not hurt us, but they shall be forced (himself ordering of them) to do much good to us; all your wants shall but make you pray the more, all your sorrows shall but humble you the more, all your t…

This horrible dragon does not only wish, with his tail, to strike at the stars of God, but at the God who made the stars, being desirous to [illegible] them all. God and the devil are sworn enemies to each other; the terms between them, are those, in (Zechariah 11:8). My soul [i…

And which is the sum of all uncleanness, sin in the heart is compared to the fire of hell (James 3:6). So that the pure eyes of God loathe to see, and his nostrils to smell it (Zechariah 11:8; Amos 5:21). It makes all those that have eyes open and judgments rectified to abhor it…

They can no more either pray, or speak, or evidence the power of the Spirit of God in any thing to the edification of the Church. Their arm is dried up, and their right eye is utterly darkened (Zechariah 11:17). And this sometimes they come to be sensible of, yes, ashamed of, an…

You must therefore prepare yourself to this work by a thorough search of your own heart. Particular repentance goes before general mercies (Zechariah 11:9). If God intend good to this poor land he will bring us to this, he will make us get alone, and every one lay his finger upo…