Consuming Zeal
John 2:17
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has eaten me up.


When Baxter came to Kidderminster there was about one family in a street which worshipped God at home. When he went away there were some streets in which there was not more than one family on a side that did not do it; and this was the case even with inns and public-houses. While some Divines were wrangling about the Divine right of Episcopacy or Presbytery, or splitting hairs about reprobation and free-will, Baxter was always visiting from house to house, and beseeching men, for Christ's sake, to be reconciled to God and flee from the wrath to come.

(Bp. Ryle.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

WEB: His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."




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