"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

" The GOD of the whole earth shall He be called." -Isaiah 54:5 [KJV] An affectionate wife cannot bear to hear her loving husband traduced (- misrepresented ) and spoken contemptibly of. It must hurt her mind. The church of the faithful, “is the Bride, the Lamb’s wife,” (Revelation 21:9.) Her Redeemer is here said to be her Husband. These four names are given to Him. Thy Maker — the L ORD of hosts — the Holy One of Israel — the God of the whole earth . Now if, after this, any should dare to deny, that Jesus Christ is not truly and essentially God, they must be quite blind, exceeding bold, and abominable wicked.  Jealous of our dear husband’s honour and glory, we cannot bear to hear Him so vilely traduced and blasphemed. While we pity, we would flee from such, and take shelter under the wings of our Redeemer, and the protection of our Husband. The Godhead dignity of His person is the glory of our souls. The humility of His appearing in flesh, adds charms to His...

"Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the L ORD in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses." - Psalm 107:5, 6 [KJV] Until they wandered in the wilderness—until they felt it to be a solitary way, until they found no city to dwell in, until hungry and thirsty their soul fainted in them—there was no cry. There might have been prayer, a desire, a feeble wish, and now and then a sigh or a groan. But this was not enough. Something more was wanted to draw forth loving-kindness out of the bosom of the compassionate Head of the Church. A cry was wanted,—a cry of distress, a cry of soul trouble, a cry forced out of their hearts by heavy burdens. And a cry implies necessity, urgent want, a perishing without an answer to the cry. It is the breath of a soul bent upon having eternal realities brought into the conscience, or perishing without them. It is this solemn feeling in the heart that there is no other refuge but Go...

"Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the L ORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold; thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eat thereof ." -II Kings 7:2 [KJV] My soul, do not fail to remark, from the numberless instances given upon record in scripture, how the sin of unbelief is bound up in our very nature. Every man is of himself disposed to it. The subtilty of Satan induced this among the masterpieces of his devilish art. Hence nothing but an act of sovereign grace can bring a cure. What the prophet promised, in the midst of dearth, of so sudden and so great a supply of bread, appeared so incredible to human reason, that this unbelieving lord, on whose hand the king of Israel leaned, and perhaps in whose judgment he had great confidence, brake out into the indecent expression, that nothing less than the Lord's making windows in heaven could accomplish ...