CONTENTS
We have in this chapter, strong, though distant views given of the
coming of Christ. In the prospect, the Lord is set forth as both
glorious and solemn to the people.
Isaiah 2:1
The man of God, takes a similar text to what he had used in his former
sermon, with only this difference, that... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet Micah had a similar commission in his day to deliver, and
he executed it almost in the same words: see Micah 4:1. There are
several very blessed promises delivered by both the Lord's servants,
all which had a gracious eye to the prosperity of Zion, in the latter
day dispensation; and in... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the prophet takes occasion to call upon the Jewish church, from
the zeal of the Gentile: and since the heathen is so forward to go up
to the house of the Lord, how much more ought the Lord's own people to
be alive to this service? Reader! it were devoutly to be prayed for,
that both Jew and Gen... [ Continue Reading ]
This Portion of the chapter opens in a very solemn manner. Whether the
prophet means the visitations of God in the day of calamity of this
world; or refers to the day of judgment for another; in both cases it
is solemn. See Revelation 6:12. But is there not a spiritual sense of
the passage, alluding... [ Continue Reading ]
What a beautiful and striking close is made in this verse to all that
went before. If man be nothing, yea worse than nothing, so full of
terror, and so exposed to fear, who would put any confidence in him?
His life is but a vapour: his breath is in his nostrils. Cease, cease
from him! Look unto Jesu... [ Continue Reading ]