CONTENTS The Prophet is at prayer: and God is in the confirmation of his promises in Christ, and the glories of the Church in her Husband and Saviour, are most joyfully set forth and celebrated. Isaiah 62:1 They were happy times, when the Lord's servants burned with an holy zeal for their Lord's h... [ Continue Reading ]
How much the Holy Ghost seems to dwell upon the Church; beauty and loveliness, in various parts of his word: See Song of Solomon 4:7; Isaiah 65:15. And was not this scripture fulfilled, when the Redeemer informed John of the blessings of the Church in him? Revelation 3:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Church is her Lord's glory: so the Apostle was commissioned to inform the Church, 2 Corinthians 8:23. And when John saw the Lord Jesus in a vision, he beheld on his head many crowns, Revelation 19:12. Reader? It is Christ's coronation day, when any poor sinner is brought to ascribe the sole glor... [ Continue Reading ]
Hephzi-bah, signifies delight; and Beulah means union and marriage. The joy is, that the soul is a marriageable creature, and that the Lord Jesus, in his assumption of our nature, hath married us, and made us one with himself. Sweetest of all thoughts, my soul! thy Maker is thine Husband: the Lord o... [ Continue Reading ]
Here we see, in whose appointment ministers are, and what ought to distinguish the earnestness of their labours. What can be more blessed, and what service so honourable, as to be always engaged in speaking from God to the people, and bearing the people, in the arms of faith and prayer, before God?... [ Continue Reading ]
I beg the Reader to observe, how very sweet and frequent those promises are, scattered here and there, all over scripture which speak of God's absolute engagement to bless his people; and let him not for a moment forget, that they are all yea and amen in Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
The gospel way is a high way, and was all along to be so marked; and the Lord promised that it should be so plain, that the way faring men, though fools, should not err therein; Isaiah 35:8. And the character of the Lord's people was also as plainly sketched. They were to be a peculiar people; a peo... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS OH! for a portion of that holy zeal, which inflamed the minds of the faithful of old, when they preferred Zion, and her interests, above their chief joy! But now, alas! it may be said, in the language of the Prophet, Zion hath none to guide her, among all the sons whom she hath brought... [ Continue Reading ]