Jeremiah 10

This convinced Plato of a deity, when he saw all the world could not make a fly. Thus God proves himself to be the true God, and distinguishes himself from idols (Jeremiah 10:11). It is written in Chaldean, Thus shall you say to them, the gods that have not made the heavens and…

Could he stand of himself against a temptation, this prayer were needless: Lead us not into temptation. No man has power of himself to resist a temptation further than God gives him strength (Jeremiah 10:23): O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself. If Peter who had…

The first is the testimony of the scripture, which ascribes the event of all particular actions, even such as are in themselves casual, as the casting of lots and such like to the disposition of God: which very thing also teaches that even men themselves, endowed with reason and…

And in all such actions with Augustine I understand the will of man to be only wounded or half dead. 2, That the will of man is under the will of God, and therefore to be ordered by it; as Jeremiah says (Jeremiah 10:23), O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself: neith…

(Genesis 21:6) All that hear shall laugh with me — Sarah means the laughter of faith; then must all that hear of Sarah's bearing of Isaac in her old age, believe in Christ, as Sarah did? (Psalm 65:2) O you that hears prayer, to you shall all flesh come — a figure there must be i…

We are to fear God, and not to fear the stars: neither are we to make differences of days in respect of them, as though the affairs we take in hand, should prosper the better or the worse, in respect of their different operation. God's commandment is, Fear not the signs of heave…

The trial itself also shows clearly what fruit the people gather by these books. For being deceived by such gross imaginations, they frame to themselves earthly and fleshly gods: of whom Jeremiah justly says, that the idol is not only a vain thing, but also a teacher of falsehoo…

Satan and the wicked on the other side would not only entangle and entrap us in many of their nets; neither would they think it sufficient to cast some small stumbling-blocks in our way: but one while they would drive us upon the rocks, another while into bottomless depths of mi…

But as I think the sense which I have given agrees best. Now that we may the better clear this sentence, we must lay this foundation, to wit, that God always keeps a measure in his corrections: the reason is, because he is inclined to mercy, which we gather from the word judgmen…

They pray then that their pains may be moderated. As Jeremiah says, Correct me, O Lord, but in judgment, that is to say in measure (Jeremiah 10:24). For he opposes judgment to wrath, as in (2 Samuel 7:14) it is said that he chastises us with the rods of men, because he will not…

Here our Lord condemns another fault, which is almost always connected with immoderate anxiety about food: and that is, when a mortal man, claiming more than he has a right to do, does not hesitate, in sacrilegious hardihood, to go beyond his limits. “O Lord, I know (says Jeremi…

Things that you never projected for your selves, have been brought about beyond all your thoughts. Many such things are with God; and which of all the saints has not ound that word Jeremiah 10:23 verified by clear and undeniable experience? The way of man is not in himself.

See Isaiah 54. 15, 16, 17. and 8. 8, 9, 10. expounded by 2 Kings 18:17 & seq. See you at any time a rub of Providence diverting the course of good men from falling into evil, or wicked men from committing evil; how loudly do such Providences proclaim the truth and certainty of t…

This is the case of Millions, and Millions of Millions: for Pagan Idolars (as that searching Scholar Mr. Briwood informs us) do not only fill the circumference of nine hundred miles in Europe, but almost the one half of Africa, more than the half of Asia, and almost the whole of…

That as the way of a man is not in himself, so much less is the end of a man in himself. The way of a man is not in himself, says the Prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 10:23), that is, a man's actions are not in his own power, he is not master of his own will, or of his own way. If a m…

And so from this simile, her stature is commended: the palm tree is recorded in Scripture to have diverse commendable properties. 1. It is straight; therefore it is said of the idols that they are upright like the palm tree (Jeremiah 10:5); straightness is comely in a stature; h…

That is, (as many learned expositors understand it, although some take another way) then began men solemnly and publicly to worship God in their assemblies. And (Jeremiah 10:25): Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your n…

How few did labor to instruct their families, catechize their children and servants, to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? Has not God threatened to pour out his wrath upon irreligious families? (Jeremiah 10:25) Neglect of city-reformation: have not the mag…

The roaring lion was conquered by the Lamb of God, in the strongest dominion that ever he had, even the Roman empire. This was a remarkable accomplishment of, Jeremiah 10:11, "The Gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from…

The Lord shall be King, and it is added over all the earth, not only over a few churches, but over all nations. Christ will show himself in the largeness of his power, not only as King of Saints (Revelation 15:3), but as King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:7), as head to the Church, bu…

Must we not needs say, this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? The several false religions of the heathen with their various superstitions and idolatries, though they gave very little opposition one to another, but agreed together well enough, yet having no f…

Every morning we should revive the sense of it upon ourselves, as the care of our work and aim, so the sense of our weakness: This day I am to live with God; but how unable am I? and how easily shall I dishonor him? The way of man is not in himself (Jeremiah 10:23). When a Chris…

God is not an idle spectator, he disposes of all events, and gives the blessing. (Jeremiah 10:23): The way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps. That is, as to any happy issue.

2. The excellency of the Word of God, and the religion it establishes: it contains store of sure comforts; and when all other comforts can do us no good, then the Word of God affords us relief and support. Bare human reason cannot find out such grounds of comfort in all their ph…

Therefore we need to call God to counsel, and to inquire of the oracle in all matters that concern family, commonwealth or church. We need a guide (Jeremiah 10:23): O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself, neither is it in man that walks to direct his steps. Affairs…

His goodness and mercy (Hosea 3:5): They shall fear the Lord, and his goodness. (Jeremiah 10:6-7): There is none like you, O Lord, you are great, and your name is great in might. Who would not fear you, O King of nations?

And let it not seem strange that the troubles and afflictions of the godly should be called judgments; for though there be no vindictive wrath in them, yet they are called so upon a double reason: partly, because they are acts of God's holy justice, correcting and humbling his p…

And (Ecclesiastes 9:12): Man knows not his time. 'Tis not in man to direct his way (Jeremiah 10:23). We cannot order our speech by reason of darkness (Job 37:19).

Yes. It is not in man to direct his own way (Jeremiah 10:23). It is beyond the power of a dead man to restore himself to life.

The Kingdom of God comes of small beginnings. God complains of Israel, they were brutish in their knowledge, Jeremiah 10:14. he does not say brutish in their ignorance, had they sinned because they did not know better, this would have excused à tanto, but they did that which was…

He has not dealt so with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them' (Psalm 147:19-20). Hence those designations of the heathen and those imprecations, as in Jeremiah 10:25: 'Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that ca…

But because we know that the world was made principally for mankind's sake, we must therefore consider this end in the governance of man. The prophet Jeremiah cries out: "I know, Lord, that the way of man is not his own, neither does it belong to man to direct his own steps" (Je…

But as we read everywhere that the holy ones suffer such punishments with quiet mind, so they have always prayed to escape the first kind of scourges. Chastise me, Lord (says Jeremiah) but in your judgment, not in your wrath, lest you destroy me (Jeremiah 10:24). Pour out your w…

My times are in your hands (Psalm 31:5). (Daniel 5:23) You have not honored your God, in whose hand your breath is, and all your ways, it was the sin of the profane King not to regard it; All his ways and turnings, his sickness and health, and all his changes, they are all in Go…

First, God will reveal his secret counsels to such, and make them of his counsel (Genesis 18:18-20). Secondly, he will bring upon Abraham all the good he has promised him: it is the ready way to bring about the accomplishment of all God's promises to us; otherwise God will heap…

And it appears two ways how great a Mercy it is to enjoy and improve this privilege, (1.) In that both the Psalmist and the Prophet pray directly in a Spirit of Prophecy and without limitation, that God would pour out his fury on the Families that call not on his name, Psalm 79:…