CONTENTS
This Chapter contains a mingled subject of divine judgment and divine
mercies, The enemies of God and his Church are threatened, and his
people comforted.
Isaiah 33:1
If this denunciation be directed, as it should seem to be, being
personal, to any particular character or nation, the Ass... [ Continue Reading ]
What a sweet, though short prayer! And if it refers to the former
history of the invasion of Samaria, by the king of Assyria, how
speedily was it answered.... [ Continue Reading ]
If the Prophet be here speaking of general things, the whole will be
suited to all times, in the Church. God's faithfulness is the same:
the efficacy of Christ's blood and righteousness, the same: and the
blessed effect of both, the same, on the minds of the people. When
Jehovah ariseth in grace upo... [ Continue Reading ]
If temporal judgments, like those which God wrought upon the Assyrian
army, had such effect upon the sinners in Zion, what will be the
terror and dismay of transgressors, in the prospect of the everlasting
judgments of God? And, Reader, do not fail to remark, that these
things are here said, not of... [ Continue Reading ]
W hat a string of rich promises are here, like so many pearls for the
believer's neck! What is it to walk righteously, but to walk in
Christ, and with Christ? Colossians 2:6. And what is it to despise the
gain of oppressions and the like, but, under the sweet influences of
grace, to live as becometh... [ Continue Reading ]
These precious things are said, to carry off the minds of the people
from the terrors of the approaching captivity, to the prospect of
gospel times, which should be accomplished by the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ. The Assyrians, and those which would lead Israel into
bondage, would be a fierce p... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
BLESSED Lord! I would pass by all other reflections, profitable as
they might otherwise be, if I had not thee in view, to look at my Lord
Jesus, under some of those most sweet and precious revelations which
thy servant the Prophet has given of thee in this chapter. Here I see
thee, Lord,... [ Continue Reading ]