Isaiah 6

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. VI.—O the infinite, the awful, the amiable, glories of our Immanuel! Thrice happy are his servants, who stand in his presence and triumph in his praise! And blessed be God that his glory has or shall fill the whole earth; and that faithful ministers and established angels vie with one another in his work.—Clear views of JBHOVAH’s perfections effectually humble the very best of men, and make them to look on themselves, and all around them, as inexpressibly mean, loathsome, and guilty. And God by such deep humiliation prepares men for great honours! Thrice happy are those ministers whom God has prepared for their work by the most humbling views of his glory, and the most powerful applications of his heart-cleansing and quieting promises! Great is the importance of a call to the ministerial office. And, alas, infinite is the hazard of such as without this, for the sake of honour or gain, treacherously pretend to be the ambassadors of Christ! But how dreadful is it when the clearest call, and the most faithful execution of it, do but issue, is the aggravated wickedness and ruin of the hearers! Not the best of all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all Spirit. And, if spiritual judgments begin, we may look for temporal to follow.—But blessed be God that, for his own honour and the preservation of the world, he still preserves a remnant of real saints, who, though in winters of adversity seem dead, yet again revive as the corn, grow as the lily, and bring forth fruit to his glory