mhcc - policy

mhcc@Genesis:3:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 -...Adam. It is his policy to...&c.? Yes, I am sure he has, and it is well said; and by his grace I will abide by it. It was Eve's weakness to enter into this talk with the serpent: she might have perceived by his question, that he had no good design, and should therefore have started back. Satan teaches men first to doubt, and then to deny. He promises advantage from their eating this fruit. He aims to make them discontented with their present state, as if it were not so good as it might be, and should be. No condition will of itself bring content, unless the mind be brought to it. He tempts them to seek preferment, as if they were fit to be gods. Satan ruined himself by desiring to be like the Most High, therefore he sought to infect our first parents with the same desire, that he might ruin them too. And still the devil draws people into his interest, by suggesting to them hard thoughts of God, and false hopes of advantage by sin. Let us, therefore, always think well of God as the best good, and think ill of sin as the worst evil: thus let us resist the devil, and he will flee from us.

mhcc@Genesis:20:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 - Crooked policy will not prosper: it brings ourselves and others into danger. God gives Abimelech notice of his danger of sin, and his danger of death for his sin. Every wilful sinner is a dead man, but Abimelech pleads ignorance. If our consciences witness, that, however we may have been cheated into a snare, we have not knowingly sinned against God, it will be our rejoicing in the day of evil. It is matter of comfort to those who are honest, that God knows their honesty, and will acknowledge it. It is a great mercy to be hindered from committing sin; of this God must have the glory. But if we have ignorantly done wrong, that will not excuse us, if we knowingly persist in it. He that does wrong, whoever he is, prince or peasant, shall certainly receive for the wrong which he has done, unless he repent, and, if possible, make restitution.

mhcc@Genesis:30:25-43 @ Verse 25-43 -...an instance of his policy and...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Genesis:44 @ ****** Genesis 44 ****** *** Outline of Genesis 44 *** Joseph's policy to stay his brethren, and try their affection for Benjamin. (_1-17.) Judah's supplication to Joseph. (_18-34.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Numbers:13:De @ Verse Deuteronomy -...opinion of their own policy than...

mhcc@Deuteronomy:13:6-11 @ Verse 6-11 - It is the policy of Satan to try to lead us to evil by those whom we love, whom we least suspect of any ill design, and whom we are desirous to please, and apt to conform to. The enticement here is supposed to come from a brother or child, who are near by nature; from a wife or friend, who are near by choice, and are to us as our souls. But it is our duty to prefer God and religion, before the nearest and dearest friends we have in the world. We must not, to please our friends, break God's law. Thou shalt not consent to him, nor go with him, not for company, or curiosity, not to gain his affections. It is a general rule, If sinners entice thee, consent thou not, Proverbs strkjv@1:10. And we must not hinder the course of God's justice.

mhcc@1Samuel:13 @ Henry'_1__12 ****** 1st Samuel 13 ****** *** Outline of 1st Samuel 13 *** The invasion of the Philistines. (_1-7.) Saul sacrifices, He is reproved by Samuel. (_8-14.) The policy of the Philistines. (_15-23.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@2Samuel:3:22-39 @ Verse 22-39 -...with the issue. Carnal policy spared..._2__4 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@2Samuel:15:7-12 @ Verse 7-12 -...occasion for deceptions. The policy of...

mhcc@2Samuel:16:15-23 @ Verse 15-23 -...to him; this cursed policy was..._2__17 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@Esther:1:10-22 @ Verse 10-22 -...the passion or the policy of...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:44:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...not by any human policy or...

mhcc@Isaiah:10:5-19 @ Verse 5-19 -...nations, by his own policy and...-bearer fainteth, and those who follow are put to confusion. Who is able to stand before this great and holy Lord God?

mhcc@Luke:16:1-12 @ Verse 1-12 -...the fraud, but the policy of...

mhcc@Romans:16:17-20 @ Verse 17-20 -...has been the common policy of...

mhcc@Revelation:13:1-10 @ Verse 1-10 - The apostle, standing on the shore, saw a savage beast rise out of the sea; a tyrannical, idolatrous, persecuting power, springing up out of the troubles which took place. It was a frightful monster! It appears to mean that worldly, oppressing dominion, which for many ages, even from the times of the Babylonish captivity, had been hostile to the church. The first beast then began to oppress and persecute the righteous for righteousness' sake, but they suffered most under the fourth beast of Daniel, (the Roman empire,)...exercised infernal power and policy, requiring...

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