Isaiah 7

Isaiah 7:4

Rezin and Pekah, and their armies and kingdoms, are called tads of smoking firebrands, because, notwithstanding their present threatening to destroy all before them, they themselves were quickly to be extinguished in ruin

Isaiah 7:7-9

The power of Syria and Israel shall never be advanced further than at present: and, by the twenty-second year of Manasseh, shall the Israelites be wholly carried captive

Isaiah 7:15

And as a child parturing of a real manhood, he shall live on common fare

Isaiah 7:16

Within two years shall the present kings of Syria and Israel be both cut off

Isaiah 7:18

The Egyptians are represented as blood-sucking flies, and the Assyrians as stinging and all collecting bees, in allusion to the awarms of those insects in Egypt and Assyria. 18—25. Roused by the providence of God, and rewarded with spoil, they shall overspread the whole country, and cut off persons of all ranks, high and low, and render the once so fertile country a waste and uncultivated soil for briars and thorns, and the residence of robbers and wild beasts; few persons, or tame cattle, being left therein

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. VII.—To what alarming terrors, what murderous destructive invasions and wars, does sin expose men! And, while judg- ts ordinarily begin at the house of God, one guilty nation is made the urge of another, and then quickly perishes itself! Severe, seasonable, free, often unasked, are God’s interposals for the relief and comfort of men. d if he be on our side we need not fear the most furious adversaries. No or, no attempt, to frustrate his promises, can fail to issue in the sudden ruin its authors. And the most proud and boastful are ordinarily the least suc- sful in their enterprises. But faith in his promise is necessary to the esta- ishment of our heart while they rage or reign. What kindness God shews to e wicked men for the sake of their ancestors, though with specious pretexts regard they often refuse the favours of God, that they may depend on an in of flesh! But with earnestness and boldness ought we to avouch the Lord r our God when others refuse their claim. Amidst the deepest distress, infal- ole are the securities, and strong the consolations, which are derived from us Christ, and his connections with us. God easily finds instruments fitted execute his vengeance upon obstinate sinners. And none are more readily ozen by him than those whom we have idolized and confided on in his stead. , alas! terrible is the vengeance that falls at last upon corrupt professors. their barrenness under the means of grace, and fruitfulness in wickedness, curse, t, and desolate, the very earth on which they live!