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…

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…

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…

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…