CONTENTS The Chapter opens with the same melancholy relation as the former. But several sweet views of Christ arise here and there as we prosecute the contents; and in the close we have a lovely manifestation of the Redeemer under one of his divine offices.... [ Continue Reading ]
We have here the continuance of the same subject; the Lord's charge against Israel. It is not the nations around, but Israel, against whom the Lord pleads. Sin in God's people becomes exceeding sinful.... [ Continue Reading ]
When we consider the Lord's dealings with Israel, we cannot sufficiently lament their depravity. Other nations of the earth, which knew not the Lord, we behold with a different aspect to that of the seed of Jacob. A family like this, so blessed, so fed, so taught, and so protected! What apology can... [ Continue Reading ]
Do not forget, Reader, nor overlook the sweet feature of grace here appearing. Though unworthy, degenerate, and fallen, still Jacob is reminded of his name, and called upon to recollect, that Him with whom is the residue of the Spirit, is not straitened, limited, or confined. Reader! I have found th... [ Continue Reading ]
I would read this verse by itself, because I humbly conceive, that it is not connected with what went before, neither in what follows. And moreover, I think it is a blessed verse, suitable to be read with every Chapter in the Old Testament and the New. Is it not indeed the call of God the Spirit to... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a very awful scripture. The Lord alone knows in how many instances it may be daily fulfilling. Alas! when false teachers are given to a people of a deluded mind, what a state must that people be in!... [ Continue Reading ]
Remark, Reader, in the worst of times, how the Lord is richly giving out sweet promises concerning the Lord Jesus Christ to his people. For to whom is the gathering of the people to be, but to the Lord Jesus Christ? And observe the expression, all of Jacob; not an hoof, as Moses told Pharaoh, should... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a verse concerning the Lord Jesus, which it would take the whole of life to go over every part and explain; and after all, numberless beauties pointing to the Lord Jesus in it would be left unexplored and unknown. That by the breaker is meant the Lord Jesus Christ, the general consent of all... [ Continue Reading ]