Ezekiel 18:1
CONTENTS This chapter is a beautiful commendation of divine justice, and no less a condemnation of human folly.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS This chapter is a beautiful commendation of divine justice, and no less a condemnation of human folly.... [ Continue Reading ]
It should seem by the scope of reasoning the Lord is pleased to adopt in this chapter, that the proverb here used was an indirect reflection upon God. It was probably the scoffer's comment upon the second Commandment. But so great was the general delinquency of the times, that both Father and Son we... [ Continue Reading ]
I include all these verses under one view in reading, the better to gather also into one view the just and unalterable reasoning of the Lord upon them. Here are three cases stated, in a father, and a son, and the son's son, to show and illustrate the truth by. One is supposed to be a just man, who m... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the Lord puts the case of a soul recovered by grace out of the snare of the devil, and the Lord's pleasure in that recovery, and very blessed it is. Lord! I would say, grant that this saving work of Thine almighty love may be daily carrying on in the Church!... [ Continue Reading ]
When the Lord puts the question, Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, and not that he should return from his ways and live? We cannot suppose that the sense is, the Lord hath no pleasure in securing the honour and glory of His holy name, by the destruction of sin and evil. This cannot be... [ Continue Reading ]
Here, in conclusion, is a most striking and just appeal from the Lord, followed up with the strongest assurance of mercy. But here again, as before, the expression concerning the Lord's pleasure in the death of the sinner must be accepted agreeably to the general tenor of God's revealed word. The gl... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! let us both pause over this solemn chapter, and ponder well the contents of it, looking up to God the Holy Ghost, with an humble eye of supplication, that He will be our teacher. Here we learn most awfully the sure end of sin. Here also we learn in what must consist the righteou... [ Continue Reading ]