Isa 40:1 ¶ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. John Calvin's Verse Commentary Isaiah 40:1 1. Comfort ye. By this exhortation, therefore, the...
Isa 40:3 ¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Isa 40:4 Every...
Two years ago [i.e. in 1557] JOHN KNOX asked of me, in a private conversation, what I thought about the Government of Women. I candidly replied, that as it was...
Isa 42:1 ¶ Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the...
Already we have looked at the spring where the church flows forth. At this point it is proposed that we are to believe the church with this end in view: that...
Isa 43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring...
Thou didst not shew compassion to them. In the former clause he calls the Jews to repentance, because by their own crimes they drew down upon themselves so...
Isa 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction....
Let thy tender mercies come unto me that I may live: for thy law is my delight. [Psalm 119:77] In this verse we may very well see, that David was as it were...
Ps 109:20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul. John Calvin's Verse Commentary Psalms 109:20 ...
I think over and consider, not without a sigh of distress at our lot. But to prevent my being broken by such reflection there comes to mind on the other side a...
To this purpose the Psalmist, (Psalm 107) mentioning how God, in a wondrous manner, often brings sudden and unexpected succor to the miserable when almost on...
We thought him to be smitten, wounded by God, and afflicted. In this second clause he shows how great was the ingratitude and wickedness of the people, who did...
Blessed are they who are upright, in their way, walking in the law of Jehovah.[Psalm 119:1] BELOVED, WE OUGHT TO BE GREATLY ashamed of ourselves, when as our ...
Jam 2:2 For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; Jam 2:3 and ye have...
Jam 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to...
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every...
[2 OF 2] Isa 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou ...
Isa 64:12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? Wilt thou restrain thyself for these things,...
Grant, Almighty God, that as we are so scattered in our pilgrimage in this world, that even a dreadful spectacle is presented to our eyes, when we see thy...
REPENTANCE ACCORDING TO 2 CORINTHIANS 7:11 a. It is for a very good reason that the apostle enumerates seven causes, effects, or parts in his description of...
REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS ARE INTERRELATED b Now if it is true - a fact abundantly clear - b(a) that the whole of the gospel is contained under these two...
20. IN WHAT SENSE IS REPENTANCE THE PRIOR CONDITION OF FORGIVENESS? a Now the hatred of sin, which is the beginning of repentance, first gives us access to the...
. THE OUTWARD PRACTICE OF PENANCE MUST NOT BECOME THE CHIEF THING b Some persons, when they hear weeping, fasting, and ashes spoken of in various passages, and...
OUTWARD AND INWARD REPENTANCE b Now we can understand the nature of the fruits of repentance: c the duties of piety toward God, of charity toward men, and in...
A Christian will measure all his deeds by God's Law, and his secret thoughts he will subject to God's will. If a man has learned to regard God in every...
REPENTANCE AS GOD'S FREE GIFT e Further, that repentance is a singular gift of God I believe to be so clear from the above teaching that there is no need of a...
. CONFESSION OF SIN BEFORE GOD AND BEFORE MEN e Nevertheless, I shall insert this point here: when the term "repentance" is applied to this external ...
Before proceeding farther, it seems proper to make some observations on the authority of Scripture, in order that our minds may not only be prepared to receive...
That the greater part of men resist the gospel, and direct all their exertions to prevent its progress, should be no matter of surprise. Such, indeed, has been...
