Isaiah 56

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. LVI.—God’s kindness powerfully binds and constrains to holiness in all manner of conversation. And, if I share of his grace, it becomes me to hate evil; to love him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength; carefully to observe all his institutions, and do to my neighbours of mankind as I would they should do to me. Always should I rest contented with my earthly lot, as now no natural defects can debar me from the congregation of the Lord: and the fulness of Jesus’ covenant can sufficiently balance my want of children, or any thing beside. Yea, let me greatly rejoice that Gentile sinners are now not only invited, but divinely drawn, to God’s holy mountain, and the gospel church, with its divine and life-giving ordinances. But fearful is the presage of impending ruin when ministers and magistrates become monsters, and patterns of wickedness