18<\/strong>. in the imagination<\/em> ] Render, as the imagination<\/strong>. Imagination<\/em> here means not the faculty, but the result of the exercise of the faculty, a mental image<\/em> or impression<\/em>.<\/p>\n prepare<\/em> ] Better R.V. mg., establish<\/strong>. David prays that the people may continue in their present mind.<\/p>\n Keep this forever … – <\/B>i. e., Preserve forever this spirit of liberal and spontaneous giving in the hearts of Thy people, and establish their hearts toward Thee.<\/P><\/p>\n 1Ch 29:18<\/span><\/p>\n Keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n What must Christians do, that the influences of the ordinances may abide upon them<\/strong><\/p>\n The course to be taken for this purpose lies–<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Get new hearts, and get them daily more and more renewed. A heart thoroughly sanctified is to the ordinances like tinder, which soon takes fire and is apt to keep it till it be forced out; whereas a carnal, unmortified heart is like green wood, which is not soon kindled and will soon go out, if it be not well looked to. Holiness makes the soul both receptive and retentive of holy impressions.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Labour to be much affected with the ordinances while you are employed in them. If the ordinances pierce no further than the surface of the soul, the efficacy of them is not likely to continue. Prepare your hearts before you draw near to God. The heart is prepared when it is made–<\/p>\n (a)<\/strong> Tender (Jer 4:3<\/span>; Hos 10:12<\/span>). That which can make no impression at all upon a flint will sink deeply into softened wax.<\/p>\n (b)<\/strong> Sensible; apprehensive of your spiritual wants and necessities.<\/p>\n (c)<\/strong> Open. A quick sense of your spiritual condition will open your hearts. Desire opens the heart (Mat 5:6<\/span>; Psa 107:9<\/span>). We come to the ordinances too like the Egyptian dog, which laps a little as he runs by the side of Nilus, but stays not to drink. Christ invites us to eat and drink abundantly (Son 5:1<\/span>).<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Mind the ordinances after you use them. Be much in meditation. Much of heaven and holiness is engraved on these ordinances; and the seal is, as it were, set upon the heart, while you <\/strong>are under them; but after-consideration lays more weight on it and impresseth it deeper. The heart takes fire at the mind (Psa 39:3<\/span>).<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Let the efficacy of the ordinances be pursued presently into act (Psa 119:60<\/span>). When the blossoms of a fruit-tree are once knit, though the flourish thereof be gone, and you see nothing but the bare rudiment of the expected fruit, yet you think it more secured from the injury of frosts and winds than if it were still in the flower. Good motions, when they are once reduced into act, are thereby, as it were, knit, and brought to more consistency.<\/p>\n 5. <\/strong>You must take much pains with your hearts if you would have them retain the virtue and efficacy of the ordinances. The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting (Pro 12:27<\/span>). He loseth all his former labour because he will not take a little more pains.<\/p>\n 6. <\/strong>Comply with the Spirit of God.<\/p>\n 7. <\/strong>Be frequent in the use of ordinances. Good impressions do most usually wear off in the intervals of holy duties. It is observed that places under the line are not so hot as some climates at a further distance from it; and this reason is given for it: Those under the equinoctial, though they have the sun more vertical, and the beams, falling more perpendicularly, cause a more intense heat; yet the nights being of equal length with the days, the coolness of those long nights doth more allay the heat than where the nights are shorter. Long intermissions of holy duties are like long nights: you may find them by experience to be great coolers. Elijah in the wilderness had to eat more than once to be strengthened for his journey (1Ki 19:6-8<\/span>).<\/p>\n 8. <\/strong>Look up to God for the continuance of this influence.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Take heed that you perform not your duties negligently (Jer 48:10<\/span>; Mal 1:8<\/span>; Mal 1:14<\/span>; Jer 30:21<\/span>; Deu 32:46-47<\/span>).<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Beware of the world. Meddle not with it more than needs must. Carry yourself amongst worldly objects and employments as though you were amongst cheats and thieves: they have the art to pick your hearts slily. When your hearts are warmed with holy duties, you should be as cautious and wary how you venture into the world as you are of going into the frosty air when you are all in a sweat. What is kindled by the Word or prayer requires as much care to keep it in as to keep a candle in when you would carry it through the open air in a rainy, blustering night. The further you are above the world, the longer may you retain any spiritual impressions. Geographers write of some mountains whose tops are above the middle region of the air; and there lines and figures being drawn in the dust have been found, say they, in the same form and order, untouched, undefaced, a long time after; and the reason is because they are above those winds and showers and storms, which soon wear out and efface any such draughts in this lower region. The lower your minds and hearts and conversations are, the less will anything that is heavenly and spiritual abide upon them.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Take heed of any inordinacy in affection, inclination, or design. The ministry of John the Baptist had some influence on Herod (Mar 6:20<\/span>); but sensuality being predominant, those better inclinations were quite overpowered.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Rest not in the best performance of any duty, nor in any assistances you find therein, though they be special and more than ordinary. It is observed that some professors have had the foulest falls, after they have been most elevated in holy employments. We are apt to take the most dangerous colds when we are in the greatest heats.<\/p>\n 5. <\/strong>Make not the ordinances your end, but use them as the means to attain it. Application: If the efficacy of thy ordinances abide not in you, you cannot be fruitful under them; at least you cannot bring forth fruit to perfection. (David<\/em> Clarkson,<\/em> B. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 18<\/span>. Keep this for ever<\/B><\/I>] All the good dispositions which myself and my people have, came from thee; continue to support and strengthen them by the same grace by which they have been inspired!<\/P> <\/p>\n Keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people; <\/B>since it is from thy grace that thy people have such willing minds to thy service, as was before acknowledged, I beg the continuance of that grace to them, that they may persist in the same generous and pious disposition towards thee and thy worship. <\/P> Prepare their heart unto thee, <\/B>or rather, as it is in the margin, stablish<\/I> or confirm<\/I>, &c. Thou who hast begun a good work, confirm and carry it on by thy grace, otherwise it will languish, and this very people will prove degenerate. <\/P> <\/p>\n O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers<\/strong>, c:] The ancestors of the Jewish nation, whose covenant God the Lord was, and who had ever been mindful of his promise to them, with respect to them their seed:<\/p>\n keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people<\/strong> let the same disposition of mind always continue in them to serve the Lord their God:<\/p>\n and prepare their heart unto thee<\/strong>; incline and dispose their minds always to fear the Lord, and obey his will.<\/p>\n He prays that God may enable the people ever to retain this frame of heart. is more closely defined by , viz., the frame of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people. “And direct their heart (the people’s heart) to Thee,” cf. 1Sa 7:3<\/span>. <\/p>\n (18) Israel.<\/strong>1Ch. 29:10<\/span>. (See Gen. 32:28<\/span>, and Exo. 3:6<\/span>.)<\/p>\n Keep this for ever in the imagination.<\/strong>Rather, preserve this for ever:<\/em> to wit, the cast (1Ch. 28:9<\/span>) of the thoughts of the heart of thy people. Give permanence to the frame of mind which has evinced itself in the freewill offerings of to-day.<\/p>\n Prepare their heart.<\/strong>Or, direct<\/em> (1Sa. 7:3<\/span>). (Comp. Eze. 4:3<\/span>; Eze. 4:7<\/span>, direct the face towards . . . Pro. 16:9<\/span>, direct his going. Comp. also 2Ch. 12:14<\/span>; 2Ch. 20:33<\/span>.)<\/p>\n 18<\/strong>. <\/strong> Keep this for ever in the heart of thy people <\/strong> That is, preserve continue in them this liberal spirit of giving.<\/p>\n 1Ch 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:<\/p>\n Ver. 18. Keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people.<\/strong> ] David finding in them that float of good affections, that heat and height, he prays heartily that God would, porro fovere,<\/em> keep up their hearts in that holy temper, fix their quicksilver, fire up their spirits more and more to a holy contention in godliness, and give them “with full purpose of heart to cleave” to himself, as Barnabas expresseth it. Act 11:23 Lo, this is David’s remarkable prayer – as one well styleth it – for his people; and this should be our continual request unto God for ourselves and others. For it is with holy affections, saith a grave divine, as with exotic noble plants; this country is not so kindly for them, being but a stepmother to them: therefore they must be much watered and cherished by prayer, and all good endeavour.<\/p>\n Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel. See note on Ex, 1Ch 32:13. <\/p>\n Lord God: Exo 3:6, Exo 3:15, Exo 4:5, Mat 22:32, Act 3:13 <\/p>\n keep: Deu 30:6, Psa 51:10, Psa 119:166, Jer 10:23, Jer 32:39, Phi 1:6, Phi 1:9-11, 1Th 3:11, Heb 13:21 <\/p>\n in the imagination: 1Ch 28:9, Gen 6:5, Psa 119:113 <\/p>\n prepare: Heb. stablish, Psa 10:17, 2Th 2:16, 2Th 2:17 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 35:21 – General Num 14:24 – followed me 1Ki 18:36 – Lord God 2Ki 2:9 – Ask what 2Ch 1:11 – this was 2Ch 12:14 – he prepared 2Ch 20:6 – O Lord 2Ch 29:36 – God 2Ch 30:12 – the hand of God 2Ch 30:19 – prepareth Ezr 7:10 – prepared Neh 4:6 – had a mind Luk 1:17 – to make Act 5:30 – God Act 22:14 – The God Act 24:14 – the God Rom 9:23 – he had afore 2Th 3:5 – the Lord 2Ti 2:22 – call<\/p>\n 1Ch 29:18. O Lord God of Abraham, &c. A God in covenant with them, and with us for their sakes. Keep this for ever, &c. Since it is from thy grace that thy people have such willing minds, continue that grace to them, that they may persist in the same generous disposition toward thee and thy worship. And grant that by our perseverance in this piety and charity, we may make good our part of the covenant, and so may not forfeit the benefit of it. And prepare their heart unto thee Or rather, as it is in the margin, stablish or confirm their heart. Thou, who hast begun a good work, confirm and carry it on by thy grace, otherwise it will languish, and this very people will prove degenerate.<\/p>\n 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the {k} imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:<\/p>\n (k) Continue then in his good mind, that they may serve you willingly.<\/p>\n O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: 18. in the imagination ] Render, as the imagination. 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