Zechariah 14

Q. 1. What does God require of us in our dependance on him, that he may be glorified by us, and we accepted with him? Answ. That we (a) worship him (b) in and by the ways of his own appointment. (a) Matthew 4:10. Revelation 14:7. Deuteronomy 6:13. chap. 10:20. (b) Leviticus 10:1…

Qu. 10. How do we in and by them build up our selves in our most holy faith? Answ. By the exercise of that communion with God in Christ Jesus, which in their due observation he graciously invites and admits us to, for the increase of his grace in us, and the testification of his…

And in other places the doctrine of the Scripture is frequently compared to Rain and watering (Deuteronomy 32:2): "My doctrine shall drop as the Rain, my Speech shall distill as the Dew, as the small Rain upon the tender Herb, and as the Showers upon the Grass." And where God de…

2. If these Scriptures (Isaiah 60:15 and 59:21) and the rest, do prove, that when the Jews shall be called, it shall be with them as is said; then what the Synod here says is gained, and stands good, namely that in holy, reforming, and most glorious times, there shall be a conti…

[Cometh] [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], is come, that is, he shall as certainly come as if he were come already: the Jews say the great excommunication Maranatha, was instituted by Enoch, the word signifies, The Lord comes. [With ten thousand of his Saints] it may be rendered with h…

We cannot but acknowledge that the Lord has granted us a morning light, but let us fear and tremble; for the time of God's displeasure, sometime it is in the morning; when we think we have light breaking forth, God may have other ways to bring darkness upon us than we are aware…

The prophecies speak of Jerusalem's being made the joy of the whole earth, and also the joy of many generations (Psalm 48:2; Isaiah 60:15), that God's people should long enjoy the work of their hands (Isaiah 65:22), that they should reign with Christ a thousand years (Revelation…

But God did not so regard it. For in order to testify that that duty of theirs was pleasing and acceptable to Him, He immediately through the prophet not only extols that feast with great praise, but moreover celebrates in its name the spiritual worship of the gospel to be intro…

But nothing occurs more frequently in all the prophecies concerning that state, or is more solemnly set forth, than this true and saving holiness of the members of that church. See Psalms 2:6, 24:3, 4, 45:18, 68:18; Isaiah 11:8-10, 35:8, 54:11-14, 60:21; Ezekiel 47:9; Zechariah…

"And this is also the source of the four rivers of which Ezekiel (47:2) speaks, which are to water the four quarters of the world." which, going out from the temple, spread, as Zechariah (Zechariah 14:8) says, from the rising to the setting sun. Though in the present day we make…

Our tender Father is therefore, neither always feeding, nor always correcting. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord: not day nor night, but it shall come to pass that at evenin…

Promises of the diffusion of the knowledge of God. Of unity in his worship, Jeremiah 31:34; Zephaniah 3:9; Zechariah 14:9 fulfilled. Jews' exception; answered.

While Job wishes that his very day, which is light, should be darkness, how great a darkness does he wish to it; And if the day be darkness, how dark must the night of that day be? Then again, Let the day be darkness, he does not say, let the day be misty, or cloudy, or dusky, o…

(1) Heresies, and infidelity, and superstition, among those who have been brought up under the light of the gospel, will then be abolished. Then there will be an end to Socinianism, and Arianism, and Quakerism, and Arminianism; and Deism, which is now so bold and confident in in…

Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; from henceforth there shall NO MORE come to you the uncircumcised and the unclean. Zechariah 14:21. And in that day, there shall be NO MORE the Canaanite in the house of the Lord.

Why, but I may be a piece of lost money whom he seeks; if yes, love Christ. Love's logic is, I love Christ, or I desire to love Christ, therefore Christ loves me; and I desire to use the means of salvation, and to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, and keep the Feast of Tab…

There is a strong emphasis in Lord, and in the word will; his own wicked will was playing the king or the tyrant over the saints; and when his will is down, and the will of Christ up, and the man has been three days in this condition fasting and praying, then comes the Spirit to…

Zechariah 14:9, latter part. In that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one. The whole chapter, but chiefly the context immediately preceding is spent in the description of a wonderful day, which in verse the seventh is said to be one day, that is one entire period and jo…

2. From the manner whereby God will do these things: many perplexing, killing circumstances attend his dispensations: I shall instance only in one: and that is darkness and obscurity, whereby he holds the minds of men in uncertainty, and suspense, for his own glorious ends: such…

There is no part of a Christian's conversation which should not savor of holiness; not only his religious, but his common and civil actions. The pots in Jerusalem, and the horse-bells, were to bear God's impress as well as the vessels and utensils of the temple (Zechariah 14). A…

(Zephaniah 3:9) For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent. (Zechariah 14:9) And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one. The dog is let…

The sinner that finds the burden of his sin the heaviest of all others, and a disease most deadly to his soul, the sharpest truths he accounts the safest, and therefore takes most content therein, there shall no course that can be prescribed, be it never so tedious to flesh and…

Upon which words Gualther writes, The Prophet having spoken in the 1st verse of a full and absolute washing by Christ's blood both from original sin and the corruption of our nature, under the name of uncleanness, and all actual sins, thoughts, words and deeds under the name of…

3. THESIS. God both foretels and promises in his word, and that more particularly of the days of the Gospel, to give one heart and one way to his people; and as there shall be one Lord, so his name shall be one, and that they shall all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve hi…

When glorious promises are near to their birth, we may conclude that a day of trouble is also near. Zech. 14:7: At evening time it shall be light. If light be ready to break forth, we may well conjecture that a dark evening will go before it.

But the great glory of these times will be, that grace will then flourish, and holiness abound. Christ told Pilate (John 18:36), 'My Kingdom is not of this world': and holiness will mainly difference that from all else; it is therefore said of these times (Zechariah 14:20, 21),…

Money used to have an image and superscription upon it (Matthew 22:20). And the prophet has given us an inscription for ours (Isaiah 23:18): Her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord, and so also (Zechariah 14:20-21). Hereby we stamp the image of God upon them.

That by his own wisdom he may frame such a power, as may best conduce to the carrying on of his own kingdom among the sons of men. He has promised his Church, that he will give to it holy Priests and Levites (Isaiah 66:20, 21.) which shall serve at the great feast of tabernacles…

In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses Holiness to the Lord; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be Holiness to the Lord of Hosts, and all they that sacrifice shall come and ta…

There was indeed a glorious season of the application of redemption, in the first ages of the Christian church, that began at Jerusalem, on the day of Pentecost; but that was not the proper time of ingathering; it was only as it were the feast of the first fruits; the ingatherin…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, in very many places of the New Testament, the word Church (to wit Visible) is so largely taken, that it cannot be restricted, to any particular Congregational Church (Acts 8:3; Galatians 1:13; Acts 2:47; 1 Corinthians 10:32; Ephesi…