Jeremiah 1

(Isaiah 10:6), I will send the Assyrian against a hypocritical nation. So (Jeremiah 1:15-16), (Isaiah 13:1-3), (Isaiah 15:1-2, [illegible]), (Isaiah 17:1-3), (Isaiah 19:1-4). Now God could not be the Author of war and peace, as God and Sovereign all-Disposer, if it were in the i…

But the covenant of grace sets no limit for any weak soul, Christ racks not, nor does he (as it were) play the extortioner, and say, either the strongest faith, or none at all; he makes not Abraham's foot a measure to every poor sinner; many smoking flaxes, and broken reeds on e…

Thus Christ was called from the womb, and set apart to be a mediator (Isaiah 47:1; John 6:27). Jeremiah to be a prophet (Jeremiah 1:5). Christ is said to give Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, teachers (Ephesians 4:11).

This was a thing commanded to the prophets and apostles (Isaiah 58:1): Cry and spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, show my people their transgression. (Jeremiah 1:17): Truss up your loins, arise and speak to them all that I command you: be not afraid of their faces, le…

In that he commands her to come down: it has greater weight in it than if he had directly threatened she should come down: for thus he speaks with authority, as if he were already set in a throne of judgment: for he spoke nothing but what he had warrant from God to deliver; and…

Moreover, the Prophet defines not of the beginning of time, as if God had then begun to call him from the womb, but it is as if he should have said, Before I came out of my mother's womb, God ordained me to this office, as Saint Paul says, That God had chosen him from his mother…

When God's servants are handled thus shamefully, they must needs quail under so many injuries, if they had not brows of brass and iron to repulse them. And in this sense it is said, that Jeremiah was set as a defended city, and iron pillar, and walls of brass against the kings o…

Unbelievers are men who cannot be persuaded; the Gospel leaves as little impression on the heart as a ship on the Sea, or an Eagle in the Air, where the light of faith leaves not a spiritual capacity for receiving the impressions of the Spirit of grace, and where unbelief reigns…

But (1 Peter 1:5) we are kept, and our faith by the power of God. As also (Jeremiah 1:9) the weight of Jeremiah's standing courageously in his ministry is not on Jeremiah, his stock and habit of grace, though the Lord had put much precious metal in him, and made him a brazen wal…

Why? For I am with you to deliver you" (Jeremiah 1:19). Immediatione suppositi.

For it is a grant of grace to speak with enlargement. 7. If fear and dismayment be on the heart (Jeremiah 1:17), and Ezekiel may not speak at all (Ezekiel 2:6), self must be denied, and shamefastness before Kings (Psalm 119:46; see Psalm 39:1, 2) laid aside. Q. What then shall b…

I shall not be confounded, for God is at my right hand. To Jeremiah, whom God set up as a brazen wall against all oppositions (Jeremiah 1:18), and to Ezekiel (chapter 3:8): Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads…

To this I answer; God will accept you, though you do it meanly. The Prophet made this apology for himself, in (Jeremiah 1:6): Ah! Lord God, I cannot speak. But God answered, Say not so.

The former of these belongs properly to them, as they are the ambassadors of God, sent to treat with men about the affairs of the kingdom, who, if men will not accept of the terms of the treaty, and comply with the articles offered them, are, after all means used to bring them t…

This was Moses case (Exodus 10:14): Oh Lord (says hee) I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since you have spoken to your servant, but of a slow speech, and a slow tongue; And the Lord said to him, who has made mans mouth, have not I the Lord? So also was it with the Proph…

So when he stirs up Ezekiel, he warns him beforehand that he sends him to a rebellious and stubborn people, to the end that he should not be afraid if he perceives himself to sing to deaf men (Ezekiel 2:3; 12:2). So he foretells to Jeremiah that his doctrine should become a fire…

Say to the king and to the queen, humble yourselves (Jeremiah 13:18). I have made you a defended city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the…

The function of a minister is to quicken such as are dead in sin: to raise up and restore such as are [reconstructed: fallen] back again; to comfort those that are troubled in conscience; to strengthen the weak; to encourage the fainthearted; to confound the obstinate; to stand…

Jeremiah, what do you see? I see the rod of an almond tree. You have well seen, says the Lord, for I will hasten my Word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:11-12). When men hasten the maturity of sin like the blossoms of an almond tree, (which come soonest out) then says the Lord will I…

(1) Because John the Baptist, was filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb (Luke 1:15). (2) Because the prophet Jeremiah, was sanctified, from his mother's womb (Jeremiah 1:5). (3) Because the promise is made to believing parents, and to their children conjunctly…

(2) Because, the outward Sacrament of water, cannot be denied to such, as have received the Spirit of Christ, and to whom the promises of the New Covenant, sealed up in Baptism do belong; (Acts 10:47; Acts 11:15-17). But to some infants of believers, as well as to others come to…