Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 20:19

19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD , which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days ?

I heartily submit to this sentence, as being both just, because deserved and procured by mine and my Peoples sins; and merciful, because the punishment is less than I have deseved.

Which he speaks not as if he were careless and unconcerned for his Posterity, (which neither the common inclinations and affections of Nature in all Men, nor that singular Piety and Charity which was eminent and manifest in Hezekiah, can suffer us to believe) or for the Church and People of God, for whose welfare he was so solicitous and industrious in the whole course of his Life; but because it was a singular favour that this Judgment did not immediately follow his sin, the cause of it, but was suspended for a longer time.

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