Jeremiah 13

How [〈◊〉] did he come a wooing to you by his Spirit? He waited till his head was filled with dew: He cried as (Jeremiah 13:27). Will you not be made clean, when shall it once be? O Christian! did God wait for your love, and can you not wait for his?

Custom is a second nature. Jeremiah 13:23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the Leopard his spots, then may you also do good that are accustomed to do evil?

You cannot sin, but your Judge looks on. Jeremiah 13:27: I have seen your adulteries and your neighings. Jeremiah 29:23: They have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, even I know, and am a witness, says the Lord.

Therefore he says, 'Blessed are all they that wait for him.' And as he now waits only to be the more gracious to you, so he did formerly wait a long while for you to begin to turn to him, and said, 'When will it once be?' (Jeremiah 13). You made him wait your leisure in turning…

4. These are betrayed by a proud contempt, and obstinacy against instruction and reproof (Jeremiah 5:5). I will go to the great men and speak to them, but these have altogether burst the yoke, and broken the bands, they had cast off all respect and obedience to God (Jeremiah 13:…

2. It is a very defiling sin, you have defiled your self in your Idols which you have made (Ezekiel 22:4). It is a sin of spiritual filthiness and uncleanness, I have seen your Adulteries, and your neighings, and the lewdness of your whoredoms, the meaning is, your Idolatryes, a…

You shall not make to yourself any graven thing, or image, or likeness of any thing in heaven above, &c. In which part, by a usual manner of the Law, a part being put for the whole, as in the 6th, 7th, and 9th commandments, and that one of the foulest, look to note the filthines…

The other ground of our answer to all the places on the contrary, is that the word [Greek text], and [Greek text]; Christ died for all: does never signify all and every one of mankind, by neither Scripture, nor the doctrine of adversaries: but is as all Divines say, to be expoun…

Nor therefore work anything because God set us to work, or to aim at any service of God, or good to his people in it, so that as our thoughts be, so are our words, evil, and only, and continually evil; and much more all the works of our hands, that require greater strength of gr…

God would have it so, Job must pray for them when he sees them in a sin. And Jeremiah speaks to the same purpose (Jeremiah 13:17): My soul shall mourn and weep in secret for you. And the pattern of our Savior is without exception (Luke 23:34) — happy was he that could do him a m…

Ille dolet verā qui sine teste dolet. My soul shall weep sore in secret places (Jeremiah 13:17). And Peter went out and wept bitterly (Matthew 26:75).

It was not the first time Elijah had there wrestled with God; if it was his lodging room, it was his praying room: And here God heard him, and wrought the miracle: what he did for Elijah, he can and will do for us, if he see fit: for Elijah was no more than a man, and subject to…

6. Would you not have the sins of others to bring wrath and judgment on the place? Oh then, let your souls weep and pray in secret places, as Jeremiah did (Jeremiah 13:17). This is the last and safest way to be delivered from the guilt of open crying sins in the land, even a mou…

By O. HETWOOD, Minister of the Gospel. (Jeremiah 13:17) But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride, and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive. [reconstructed: London], Printed for Th…

Therefore this is the proper and true use of the law, by lightning, by tempest, and by the sound of the trumpet (as in Mount Sinai) to terrify, and by thundering to beat down and rend in pieces this beast which is called the opinion of righteousness. Therefore says God by Jeremi…

Nay he calls to us standing without, Open to me my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks with the drops of the night (Song of Solomon 5:2). Woe to you Jerusalem, will you never be made clean? when will it once be? (Jeremiah 13:27). More…

So it is with their Sorrow for the Sins of others. The Saints' Pains and Travailing for the Souls of Sinners is chiefly in secret Places; Jeremiah 13:17. 'If ye will not hear it, my Soul shall weep in Secret Places for your Pride: And mine Eye shall weep sore, and run down with…

Be clothed with humility: Some think the word imports that string or ribbon that ties together those precious pearls of divine graces, these adorn the soul, and if this spring break they are all scattered: humility is the knot of every virtue, the ornament of every grace: hence…

1. Satan can send in posts with letters, and write his [illegible], his wiles to the heart. This is one way of putting it in the heart of Judas to betray Christ, by sending his mind and will through the fancy to the heart, and the fancy being set on work by the will and understa…

5. Which will not hearken to the voice of the charmer. And because we are ready to excuse ourselves from our impotency, the Holy Ghost bears this upon them as a charge (Jeremiah 13:23): Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the Leopard his spots? Then may you do good that are ac…

Thirdly, let us greatly lament the folly and wickedness of those who speak against Christ and his holy religion, and if we can do anything, have compassion upon them, and help to undeceive them, and rectify their mistakes. Surely this is one of the abominations committed among u…

Let the name of God be precious to you: Is it not a precious thing to live so, as to bring honor to God? to hold forth the honor of God, is all the glory we can bring to God; let us be known to be those we profess ourselves to be, separated from the world, by the holiness of our…

When a man weeps, and is in a mournful posture, he seeks secrecy, that he may indulge his grief. They were to mourn apart (Zechariah 12), and (Jeremiah 13:17), My soul shall weep sore for your pride in secret places. So here, when a man would deal most earnestly with God, he sho…

The third thing I shall produce: That the Scripture does expressly deny any power in man to convert himself to God (1 Corinthians 2:14): The natural man cannot know the things of the Spirit of God, because they are spiritually discerned; and as he cannot know, so he cannot obey…

Let us fly to this Asylum, Lord spare us as a Father spares his Son. See Gods different dealing with the Godly and the Wicked; the Lord will not spare the Wicked, Jeremiah 13:14. I will not Pity, nor spare, nor have Mercy, but destroy them. 'Tis sad, when the Prisoner begs of th…

Every act lessens fear, and strengthens inclination. (Jeremiah 13:27) Woe to you, O Jerusalem, will you not be made clean? When shall it once be?

Their obstinacy in sin, or unsubjection to God, is made to be pride. So Jeremiah, when he gives the people good counsel to prevent ensuing judgments, Hear you, give ear, be not proud (Jeremiah 13:15), that is, do not obstinately refuse to comply with God's will. And afterward, v…

As soon as we are born we follow our sensual appetite; and the first years of man's life are merely governed by sense, and the pleasures thereof; are born and bred up with us, and deeply engraved in our natures; and by constant living in the world, conversing with corporeal obje…

And so Paul (Romans 7:14): I am carnal, sold under sin. 4. Consider how this bondage is always increased by custom, which is a second nature, or an inveterate disease not easily cured (Jeremiah 13:23): Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the Leopard his spots? then may you als…

Thus Lot escaped in Sodom, because his righteous soul was vexed: and Noah was upright in his generation, because he reproved the deeds of the wicked. 2. When we see their punishment in their sin, and fear a storm when the clouds are gathering, it puts us upon mourning and humili…

Now the more we provoke God, the more we resist his call, the more hard the heart is; the impulses of his grace are not so strong as before, and the heart every day is more hardened. As a path wears the harder by frequent treading, so the heart is more hard, the mind more blind,…

And shall God stand waiting till we turn from our evil ways? If any cry how long, God may, as he does (Jeremiah 13:27), when shall it once be? 4. It is [reconstructed: base] self-love, when we can be content to dishonor God longer, provided that at length we may be saved.

4. Joy is communicative; mourning apart is good; Peter went out and wept bitterly (Matthew 26:75). And Jeremiah says when he would weep for the people (Jeremiah 13:17): My soul shall weep in secret places for your pride. And (Zechariah 12:12-13): They shall mourn every family ap…

And this is that we should lay to heart at this day. (Jeremiah 13:17) But if you will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride. When a people will not be brought to any serious consideration of God's judgments, nor abate their haughty minds, he would bewail t…

(Jeremiah 4:14) O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved: how long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you? And (Jeremiah 13:27) O Jerusalem, will you not be made clean? When shall it once be?

I have preached to you, prayed, and wept for you; I have shown you the way of repentance, faith, and holiness; and were it to die for you, I hope I should not account my life dear to me, that I might save your souls by losing it. Oh, let me again entreat, beseech, and beg you fo…

Oh how dear is the law of God, and how vile the sin of men to holy David! So the Prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 13:15-17) expresses the like zeal for God: "Hear, and give ear, be not proud, give glory to the Lord, etc. But if you will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret for your…

When distempers become as it were natural, and are in the constitution, they are hard to be cured; it is not easy obliterating that which is written with a pen of iron, and the point of a diamond; it is difficult to soften a heart of stone. Besides, this filthiness has had long…

Conclude you may and write upon it, you have never prayed aright, heard aright, you have never received a sacrament aright to this day, you have never profited by any means you have enjoyed, or duties you have performed to this day. Your disease and distempers are desperate, and…

(Isaiah 30:18) He waits to be gracious: He takes fresh and renewed throws of patience and travails as it were in expectation of the return of a sinner. (Jeremiah 13, last verse) Oh Jerusalem, will you not be made clean? When will it once be?

Who is the owner but he who receives the rent of the vineyard; or he to whom it is in justice due? It is true, God is not profited as to his eternal glory, by the best services of any of his creatures; but his declarative glory is in this way advanced, his Church therefore are p…

Original sin in man is not merely morally privative, or a disabling of man from doing good, by emptying him of the grace which he had at the first; but there is something morally positive in it too, that is, all the moral powers of his soul are habitually bent to sin, his heart…

And hence the Apostle says, that the privilege of the Jew is great, in having God's Oracles (which contain God's Covenant) committed to them, though some believe not, which unbelief makes not (he says) the faith of God, that is, God's promise or Covenant of none effect, or an un…

Lo these many years have I served you, neither at any time transgressed I your Commandment, and wilt you cast me off now? what in mine old age, after you have had so much pleasure by me? See how sin pleads custom, and that is a Leopards spot, (Jeremiah 13:23). It is dangerous to…

17:30. 1. It is necessary for great ones, (Jeremiah 13:18). Say to the King and the Queen, humble your selves.

The Apostle therefore reduces the great contrivance of mans Salvation to this (Ephesians 1:6): To the praise of the glory of his Grace. His people are therefore said to be to him for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory (Jeremiah 13:11). 2. In the order of the means to this…

The mind will not be compelled to give place to them any more. The Prophet gives the Reason of it, Jer. 13:23. Can the Aethiopian change his skin, or the Leopard his spots, then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to evil.

And again will you not be made clean? when shall it once be? (Jeremiah 13:27). Yet again, hear another Scripture, How long will it be, ere they attain to innocency? (Hosea 8:5).

Both from a reluctancy, and indisposition to any such employment as this is itself; and from disaffection to that whereto it tends, the breaking off your former sinful course of life, and entering upon a better. And does not all this show you the plain truth of what the word of…

"O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them!" So (Jeremiah 13:27), "O Jerusalem, will you not be made clean? When shall it once be?"