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2421 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 743.25 (Matthew Henry)
… never called by thy name; we are rejected and abandoned, despised and trampled upon, as if we never had been in thy service nor had thy name called upon us.” Thus …
2422 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 744.12 (Matthew Henry)
… called on God’s name, it was with a great deal of indifferency: There is none that stirs up himself to take hold of God. Note, [1.] To pray is to take hold of God, by …
2423 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 744.16 (Matthew Henry)
… they call them thy holy cities, for to God they were dedicated; when they speak of the temple wherein God dwelt they call it our beautiful house and its furniture …
2424 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God; they brought the torn, and the lame, and the sick for sacrifice ( Malachi 1:8, 1:13 ), and this made their services abominable to God; they had no regard …
2425 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.5 (Matthew Henry)
… were called by his name, and called upon his name, and laid out themselves to advance his name. Note, It is no new thing for church censures to be misapplied, and …
2426 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.8 (Matthew Henry)
… her God, that to her pertain the adoption and the service of God; and with the abundance of this glory we must be delighted. We must take more pleasure in our relation …
2427 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 747.13 (Matthew Henry)
… , but God, who directs all men’s steps, will call them, and they shall come, though they be ever so far off. God’s summons shall be obeyed; those whom he calls shall …
2428 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.26 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God has not been to any either an unpleasant or an unprofitable service. God sometimes has led his people through a wilderness and a land of …
2429 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 749.10 (Matthew Henry)
… regard to God and his service and kept up the forms of godliness and devotion. It is a shameful thing for men thus to call God father, and yet to do the works of …
2430 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 749.12 (Matthew Henry)
… —from God, without dispute, yet God sent his prophets among them, to call them to return to him, to the worship of him only, not insisting so much as one would have …
2431 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 750.26 (Matthew Henry)
… any service. And see to how little purpose it is for those that have by sin deformed themselves in God’s eyes to think by any arts they can use to beautify themselves …
2432 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 753.10 (Matthew Henry)
… vain. God spoke, but they heard not, they heeded not, they never minded; he called them, but they answered not; they would not come at his call. Note, What God has spoken …
2433 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 753.23 (Matthew Henry)
… heart to have children offered to him, yet they had forsaken his service for the service of such gods as, by commanding this, showed themselves to be indeed …
2434 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 755.17 (Matthew Henry)
… hearts to shed a tear. They cry not when God binds them, Job 36:13. God sent his mourning prophets to them, to call them to weeping and mourning, but his word in their …
2435 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 756.15 (Matthew Henry)
… to stretch forth my tent any more, none of my children that used to do it for me, none to set up my curtains, none to do me any service.” Jerusalem has none to guide …
2436 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 757.4 (Matthew Henry)
… date, God had from time to time called to them to remember it, and by his servants the prophets had made a continual claim of this rent, so that they could not plead …
2437 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 757.12 (Matthew Henry)
… :8. God called them fair and of goodly fruit, both good for food and pleasant to the eye, both amiable and serviceable to God and man, for which the greenness and …
2438 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 760.6 (Matthew Henry)
… love to wander. Sinners are wanderers from God; their wanderings forfeit God’s favour, but it is their loving to wander that quite cuts them off from it. They …
2439 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.3 (Matthew Henry)
… service and thy duty to me; thou hast gone backward into the ways of contradiction, art become the reverse of what thou shouldst have been and of what God by …
2440 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 763.6 (Matthew Henry)
… . God is his people’s arm, Isaiah 32:2. We must not think to make any creature to be that to us which God has undertaken to be. Man is called flesh, to show the …