CONTENTS
In this chapter we have the Lord's judgments declared, which shall
finally and fully take place on all out of Christ. Explained and
illustrated by the gospel standard, it becomes the same, as all the
sacred writers of the New Testament declare, concerning the final
judgment of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
The manner in which the Lord, by his servant the Prophet, opens this
chapter, is very striking, and not unsimilar to other places on the
same subject. When the Lord speaks, well may man hear; Ezekiel 9:1;
Micah 6:2. It is only for the Reader to turn to those scriptures, to
discover, how both prophet... [ Continue Reading ]
I pass over the several particulars in these verses, which mean one
and the same thing, of God's judgments, differently set forth, to call
the Reader's attention to that striking one folded up in them of the
Lord's sacrifice in Bozrah. Is there not in this an allusion to the
same person and sacrific... [ Continue Reading ]
If we read these scriptures through the medium of the gospel, and drop
the similitudes in the realities, we shall find an exact description
of the human heart, void of grace; and the dreadful condition of all
such as live and die in an unregenerate state.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the Lord seems to refer to the prediction, when the fulfillment
arrives. As if the Lord had said, "Let such as behold the desolations
here spoken of look back, and mark how I predicted them, and how
faithfully my word is accomplished." It is a solemn truth, though but
seldom regarded as it ough... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! here is a very solemn chapter, full of awful threatenings:
from beginning to end. And, as we read what is here said, may we not,
though from the mouth of one, who while professing a knowledge of God,
in works denied him, take up the same language, and say as he did, God
is not a... [ Continue Reading ]