Wesley Corpus

Chapter XXVI The prophet, by God's command, in the court of the temple, threatens that the temple shall be as Shiloh, and the land a curse: exhorts to repentance, ver. 1 - 7. He is apprehended and arr...

Chapter XVI Job upbraids his friends with unkindness, ver. 1 - 5. Bemoans himself, ver. 6 - 16. Appeals from their censure to the righteous judgment of God, ver. 17 - 22. Such things - These things ar...

6. It may give a peculiar force to that beautiful passage to consider by whom and on what occasion the words were uttered. The persons speaking are Balak the King of Moab; and Balaam, then under divin...

Micah 6:6, etc. Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- My heart thou wilt anew create, The fulness of thy Spirit give: In stedfast hope for this I wait, ...

My lust - My desire both of revenge and gain. The gods - So called: Idols, or Princes: Glorious in holiness - In justice, mercy and truth: Fearful in praises - To be praised with reverence. The earth ...

In walking, &c. - This he might do, either before his reign, in the whole course of his life, which is justly charged upon him, because of his impenitency: or during his short reign; in which, he had ...

With what horror are men struck when they hear the earth groan; when her trembling succeeds her complaints; when houses are loosened from their foundations; when the roofs fall upon their heads, and t...