Jeremiah 16

You may see a jade under his gilt trappings. (Jeremiah 16:17). Their iniquities are not hid from my eyes. And he that has an eye to see, will find a hand to punish.

Every sin has a voice to speak, but some sins cry. As some diseases are worse than others, and some poisons more venomous; so some sins are more heinous (Ezekiel 16:47; Jeremiah 16:12): You have done worse than your fathers, your sins have exceeded theirs. Some sins have a black…

Answer: His naming one sort infers we should exclude no sort out of our prayers; seeing this one sort were persecutors, that may seem farthest from our prayers. Moor: We are not to pray for such as are known to sin against the Holy Ghost, because they cast aside the sacrifice an…

For this Epistle (although brief and short) is wonderfully effectual, pithy, and rich. So a little before, where he speaks of their vain conversation, in pursuing the traditions of their Fathers, he did (as it were) lightly touch sundry places of the Prophets, as namely, that pl…

To add one instance more (Micah 1:16), in case of their sore affliction the prophet says, make yourself bald and poll yourself for your delicate children, enlarge your baldness as the eagle; the meaning of all is, mourn bitterly, or mourn greatly for your delicate children, your…

What great cause have we thankfully to remember this day! As the benefit of Israel's deliverance from the Babylonish captivity was so great that it drowned the remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt (Jeremiah 16:14), so the benefit of our deliverance from Satan's captivity,…

I deny not but Vain Thoughts may sometimes come into the best Hearts, but they have a care to turn them out before night, that they do not Lodge. This denominates a Wicked man, his Thoughts Dwll upon Vanity; and well may his Thoughts be said to be Vain, because they do not turn…

For these reasons God's mourners may lack comfort. But that the spiritual mourner may not be too much dejected, I shall reach forth the cup of consolation (Jeremiah 16:7), and speak a few words that may comfort the mourner in the want of comfort. First, Jesus Christ was without…

5. So must there be a deadening of the husband to the wife (Job 19:17), to servants (Job 15:16), to sons (2 Samuel 16:11), of the mother to the daughter, of the daughter-in-law to the mother-in-law (Micah 7:6), to blood-friends. 12. All the godly and zealous Prophets said Amen t…

But directly this is the same with that parallel place (Titus 1:3): according to the commandment of God our Savior, where no interposition of that conjunctive particle can have place, the same title being also in other places ascribed to him, as Luke 1:47: my spirit has rejoiced…