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IsaiahThe ArgumentGod, according to his promise, Deuteronomy 18:15; that he would neverleave his Church destitute of a Prophet, hath from time to time accomplishedthe same: whose office was not only to declare unto the people the things tocome, whereof they had a special revelation, but also to interpret and declarethe Law, and to apply particularly the doctrine contained briefly therein, tothe utility and profit of those, to whom they thought it chiefly to appertain,and as the time and state of things required. And principally in thedeclaration of the Law, they had respect to three things, which were theground of their doctrine: First, to the doctrine contained briefly in the twoTablets: secondly, to the promises and threatenings of the Law: and thirdly,to the Covenant of grace and reconciliation, grounded upon our Savior JesusChrist, who is the end of the Law. Whereunto they neither added nordiminished, but faithfully expounded the sense and meaning thereof. Andaccording as God gave them understanding of things, they applied thepromises particularly for the comfort of the Church and the members thereof,and also denounced the menaces against the enemies of the same: not for anycare or regard to the enemies, but to assure the Church of their safeguard bythe destruction of their enemies. And as touching the doctrine ofreconciliation, they have more clearly entreated it than Moses, and set forthmore lively Jesus Christ, in whom this Covenant of reconciliation was made.In all these things Isaiah did excel all the Prophets, and was most diligent toset out the same, with most vehement admonitions, reprehensions, andconsolations: ever applying the doctrine, as he saw that the disease of thepeople required. He declareth also many notable prophecies which he hadreceived of God, as touching the promise of the Messiah, his office, andkingdom. And of the favor of God toward his Church, the vocation of theGentiles, and their union with the Jews. Which are as most principal pointscontained in this book, and a gathering of his Sermons that he preached.Which after certain days that they had stood upon the Temple door (for themanner of the Prophets to set up the sum of their doctrine for certain days,that the people might the better mark it, as Isaiah 8:1 and Habakkuk 2:2)
the Priests took it down, and reserved it among their Registers: and so byGod’s providence these books were preserved as a monument to the Churchforever. As touching his person and time, he was of the king’s stock (forAmoz, his father, was brother to Azariah king of Judah, as the best writersdo agree) and prophesied more than 64 years, from the time of Uzziah untothe reign of Manasseh, whose father in law he was (as the Hebrews write)and of whom he was put to death. And in reading of the Prophets, this onething among others is to be observed, that they speak of things to come asthough they were now past, because of the certainty thereof, and that theycould not but come to pass, because God had ordained them in his secretcounsel, and so revealed them to his Prophets.
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Isaiah 11A vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah andJerusalem: in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah Kings of Judah.2Hear, O heavens, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord hath said, I havenourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me.3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath notknown: my people hath not understood.4Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity: a seed of the wicked, corruptchildren: they have forsaken the Lord: they have provoked the holy one of Israelto anger: they are gone backward.5Wherefore should ye be smitten anymore? for ye fall away more and more: thewhole head is sick, and the whole heart is heavy.6From the sole of the foot unto the head, there is nothing whole therein, butwounds, and swelling, and sores full of corruption: they have not been wrapped,nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.7Your land is waste: your cities are burnt with fire: strangers devour your land inyour presence, and it is desolate like the overthrow of strangers.8And the daughter of Zion shall remain like a cottage in a vineyard, like a lodgein a garden of cucumbers, and like a besieged city.9Except the Lord of hosts had reserved unto us, even a small remnant: weshould have been as Sodom, and should have been like unto Gomorrah.10Hear the word of the Lord, O princes of Sodom: hearken unto the Law of ourGod, O people of Gomorrah.11What have I to do with the multitude of your sacrifices, saith the Lord? I am fullof the burnt offerings of rams, and of the fat of fed beasts: and I desire not theblood of bullocks, nor of lambs, nor of goats.12When ye come to appear before me, who required this of your hands to treadin my courts?13Bring no more oblations, in vain: incense is an abomination
Isaiah 1 1 A vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah Kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord hath said, I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me.
