CONTENTS We have here a most gracious account of divine love; and a most melancholy account of human ingratitude. There is much of the Lord Jesus Christ and his gospel in this Chapter. Hosea 11:1 Though I am free to confess, that what is here said may every Word of it be applied to the calling Isr... [ Continue Reading ]
I beg the Reader, as a further confirmation to what I have observed in the first verse, that the Lord by his servant the Prophet, is here speaking of them, and not as before of him. Whereas, had the first verse referred to Israel in Egypt, there needed no change of numbers here; for the Lord is evid... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe the grace of the Lord, by way of heightening that grace, in the riches of it! It was never for want of education, in any period of the Church, that his people revolted; for the Lord did by them as the affectionate mother doth by her infant child; when in leading strings, she watches over the... [ Continue Reading ]
This is a sweet verse, and serves very blessedly to explain the powerful efficacy of the Lord's grace, at the same time the tenderness of the methods made use of is as plainly set forth. The cords of a man; not the yoke of the beast of labour; the bands of love; not the compulsive force of terror an... [ Continue Reading ]
We have here the sad account of Israel's requital of the Lord's kindness. In which Reader, we shall as sadly mistake the subject if we overlook in Israel's history our own. As Israel threatened to return to Egypt, so often do the Lord's people now look back, and in their hearts too often return to t... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! pause over those precious words, and ponder well their gracious meaning. Admah and Zeboim, were the cities the Lord destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah. Deuteronomy 29:23. Now, as the inhabitants of those cities merited punishment, so did Ephraim and Israel, considered in themselves. For, as t... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the promise is sweetly opened, of the blessedness in the Lord's saving of his people; for they shall walk after the Lord; that is, apprehend, after the Lord Jesus Christ. Jehovah saith elsewhere, that he will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk up and down in his name. Zechariah 10... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! beg with me for grace from God the Holy Ghost, that we may both follow up his merciful design in giving the Church this precious Chapter, and behold the love of God the Father to his dear Son! See how God's own son, when appointed before all worlds, to be Christ, the wisdom of Go... [ Continue Reading ]