Jeremiah 22

Answer. The gleanings of the one are better than the vintage of the other. 1. Spiritual joys help to make us better; worldly joys do often make us worse (Jeremiah 22:21). I spoke to you in your prosperity, and you said, I will not hear.

[illegible], Theophilact. Pride, idleness, wantonness, are the three worms that usually breed of plenty; prosperity often deafens the ear against God (Jeremiah 22:21). I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, I will not hear.

Also the bodies of men are the good creatures of God, yea the bodies of God's children are the temples of the Holy Ghost, and therefore there is good cause why they should be honestly laid in the earth. And it was a curse and judgment of God upon Jehoiakim that he must not be bu…

Death is our Father's pale horse, which he sends to fetch home his tender children, and carry them out of harm's way. Surely, when national calamities are drawing on, it is far better for our friends to be in the grave in peace, than exposed to the miseries and distresses that a…

Oh, men are for their own gain, from their quarter (Isaiah 56:10). Their eyes and hearts are not but for covetousness (Jeremiah 22:17). For the glory of their own name (Daniel 4:30).

Nor can Jesus Christ but tenderly, lovingly, and compassionately deal with his beloved; for Christ must draw them (John 6:44), sweetly allure them (Hosea 2:14; Isaiah 40:1), take them by the two arms, and teach them to walk, as the mother does the young child, who has not yet le…

For the interjection, [non-Latin alphabet] Ho, is a mark of sorrowing; as Ah, or woe; every one that thirsts (Isaiah 1:4): Ah sinful nation, or woe, [non-Latin alphabet] to the sinful nation. Verse 24. Ah, I will ease me, or alas, [non-Latin alphabet] I will ease me of my advers…

Neither will any man offer to touch clothes defiled with blood and mire, for fear of drawing some infection from them. Now we cannot affirm that this happened to the kings of Babylon, yet no question but it was fulfilled, neither ought we to doubt anything at all of it (Jeremiah…

Proverbs 21. 26. 'The Righteous gives, and spares not.' Jeremiah 22. 16. 'He judges the Cause of the Poor and Needy: Then it was well with him: Was not this to know me, saith the Lord?' James 1. 27. 'Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To visit the Fa…

Nevertheless this must be acknowledged to be a sad stroke upon any person, and such as maims them upon the working hand, by unfitting them for duty, 1 Peter 3:7 and cuts off much of the comfort of life also. (2.) How many are there, who never enjoy the comfortable fruits of Marr…

Every thing was (by the law of its creation) ordained for some use, and therefore cannot but be unhappy when it is made useless. And if it be the glory of inanimate creatures when God will use them, or when men make use of them for God; how unglorious then is the condition of th…

A seal is used for confirming evidences, or closing of letters: they have some peculiar engraving on them, serving to distinguish the deed of one man from the deed of another; therefore men use to have a special care of their signet or seal: (for both are one upon the matter and…

When he would express the contrary of this love, he says he was not well pleased (1 Corinthians 10:5); he fixed not his delight, nor rest on them. And, if any man draw back, the Lord's soul has no pleasure in him (Hebrews 10:38; Jeremiah 22:28; Hosea 8:8; Mark 1:10). He takes pl…

When there is an effective, and an affective knowledge; when we cannot only discourse of God and Christ, and are inclined to believe; but when these truths soak into the heart to frame it to the obedience of his will. When the Lord had spoken of practical obedience, Was not this…

So (Psalm 111:10): "A good understanding have all they that do his commandments." (Jeremiah 22:16): "He judged the cause of the poor and the needy; was not this to know me, says the Lord?" That is true knowledge that produces its effect.

Hence it is the Lord himself is called the holy one of Israel (Habakkuk 1:12), who is of [illegible] eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look upon iniquity, no not in such as profess themselves saints, though most dear to [illegible], no, nor in his Son the Lord Jesus, not in h…

Oh says one, sure God does not love me, I am none of his child, because he does follow me with such severe afflictions: why, it is a sign of childhood to be sometimes under the rod; God had one son without sin, but no son without stripes; God puts his children to the school of t…

Some have so blossomed in prosperity that they have blossomed themselves into hell. It is an ancient experiment that the planting of some tender trees near the west sun does them hurt and parches the fruit, the sun being so extremely hot; too much prosperity, like the west sun,…

Stay while Christ tries his skill before you give it over: bring Christ by your prayers to its grave, to speak a Resurrection-word. Admirable has the Saints faith been in such straits: as Josephs, who pawn'd his bones that God would visit his brethren, willing them to lay him wh…

And this is so much the more dangerous, that the prejudice and blindness of self-love, does more strongly persuade self-godliness than any godliness of the world, and begets a more strongly rooted and fixed habit of believing self-godliness, than Ministers the godliest of them,…

But a desire to innovate all things without punishment, moves troublesome men to this point, that they wish all avengers of the breach of peace to be taken away. As for so much as pertains to the second table, Jeremiah warns kings, to do judgment and righteousness, to deliver th…

When the spleen swells, the rest of the body pines away; and when the heart is puffed with pride, the whole man is in danger of destruction. The sheep that goes in the best pasture soonest comes to the slaughterhouse; and the ungodly man fattens himself with continual prosperity…

God planted him (to allude to that, Jeremiah 2:21) a noble vine, a holy and right seed, but he degenerated, and so have all grafted on him, and so bring forth nothing but grapes of Sodom, as Isaiah speaks. But second, God the Father having many branches of chosen ones, that grew…

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said I will not hear. And this has been your manner from your youth, says the Lord (Jeremiah 22:21). But the faithful have earthly things as rewards of their righteousness, as an accession, advantage, and overplus to the kingdom of God;…

So prodigious a property is there in worldly things to obliterate all notions of God out of the heart of a man, and to harden him to any impudent abominations. I spoke to you in your prosperity, says the Lord, but you said, I will not hear (Jeremiah 22:21). According to their pa…