Jeremiah 29

The hypocrite thinks to prevaricate and juggle with God, but God will unmask him; (Ecclesiastes 12:14). God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing. (Jeremiah 29:23). They have committed villainy in Israel, even I know and am a witness, says the Lord. I, but…

"The Lord is rich to all that call upon him" (Romans 10:12). (Jeremiah 29:13) "Then shall you find me when you search for me with all your heart." (Psalm 145:19) "He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him."

Every failing is not a crime, and every crime is not a heinous crime, but adultery is Flagitium, a heinous crime. The Lord calls it villainy (Jeremiah 29:23). They have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives.

When will we be earnest if not when we are praying for the life of our souls. 3. It is only fervent prayer that has the promise of mercy affixed to it (Jeremiah 29:14): then shall you find me when you search for me with all your heart. It is dead praying without a promise; and t…

How many affronts and injuries does he put up? God sees all the intrigues and horrid impieties committed in a nation (Jeremiah 29:23). They have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery, even I know, and am a witness, says the Lord.

This is emphatically called [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] (1 Peter 1:25). So the promise of God in particular is called his good word (Jeremiah 29:10): After seventy years I will visit you and perform my good word towards you; as he calls it the good thing that he had promised (chap…

Yet when Paul gave this commandment, we read not that there were any Christian kings, but all Infidels. And the Jews are commanded to pray for Babylon, where they were captive (Jeremiah 29:7): And seek the prosperity of the city, where I have caused you to be carried captive, an…

Job 35:13: 'Surely God hears not vanity, neither does the Almighty regard it.' The promise is made to a heart engaged — Jeremiah 29:13: 'Then shall you seek me and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.' Well then, when you find your heart under the power of…

Yet when Paul gave this commandment: we read not that there were any Christian kings, but all Infidels. And the Jews are commanded to pray for Babylon, where they were captive (Jeremiah 29:7): And seek the prosperity of the city, whither I have caused you to be carried captive,…

It was in answer to prayer, that God delivered his Church from the mighty host of the Assyrians, in Hezekiah's time; which dispensation is abundantly made use of, as a type of the great things God will do for the Christian Church in the latter days, in the prophecies of Isaiah.…

Thus God's people's seeking, by earnest prayer, the promised restoration of the Church of God, after the Babylonish captivity, and the great apostasy that occasioned it, is called their SEEKING GOD, and SEARCHING for Him; and God's granting this promised revival and restoration…

Now this voice was unknown to those that heard it, and yet it was for men that understood it not: Christ acts for us, when we are sleeping. The people of God were to be seventy years in Babylon, and were going on in their obstinacy, yet then God says (Jeremiah 29:11), I know the…

1. In that he prayed, it teaches us to hallow all our actions by prayer; we do not bid ourselves God speed, unless we recommend our affairs to God; whatever assurance we have of the blessing, yet we must pray. (Jeremiah 29:10-12) "For thus says the Lord, after seventy years be a…

It is a benefit which the poorest believer may bestow, and the greatest Potentate has no power to refuse; this is the beaten way of the soul's communion with God, for which the Saints have many gracious promises of assistance (Zechariah 12:10; Romans 8:26) innumerable precepts f…

Look upon this word in the abstract, folly is wickedness; and to work folly, is in the language of the Scripture, as much, as to work wickedness, to work the greatest wickedness. Hence it is sometimes translated villany (Jeremiah 29:22-23): The Lord make you like Zedekiah and li…

Seek the Lord diligently: he has promised to be found of all them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). God looks for earnest, hearty, fervent prayer: there is a sweet promise which God makes to his people's prayers after his sore judgments which he had brought upon them (Jer…

5. They did seek inconstantly: because mercy did not come presently, they gave over seeking. But if we seek the Kingdom of Heaven cordially, God has pawned his truth in a promise, we shall find (Jeremiah 29:13), "Then shall you find me, when you search for me with all your heart…

Job was absent when God laid the corner stone of the earth. 4. The Lord times his actions of deliverance well, when our strength is gone (Deuteronomy 32:36; Galatians 4:4; Exodus 12:42; Jeremiah 29:10), but we do badly time our sins. They tempted him, and provoked him; but, when?

§53. Of parents' care in providing fit marriages for their children. God has further laid a charge upon parents to provide marriages for their children: for thus says the Prophet in the name of the Lord to parents, Take wives to your sons, and give your daughters to husbands (Je…

Whatever he intends, though he knows our wants, and resolves to answer them; yet it is a piece of religious manners, to ask what he is about to give. Jeremiah 29:11. I know my thoughts towards you, thoughts of peace; yet will I be enquired of you for these things. God knows his…

How can we forget a freind who is ever mindful of us? Jeremiah 29:11. I know the Thoughts that I think towards you (says the Lord) Thoughts of Peace.

God who is the inspector of the Heart, sees all the intrigues and Private Caballs in the Thoughts. God knows the true Motion of a false Heart, Jeremiah 29:23. I know and am a witness, says the Lord.

Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you and you shall glorify my name. I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11-12). Then you shall call upon me, and you shall go and…

God says, "I will do thus and thus for you" (Ezekiel 36:37), "But I will be inquired after by the house of Israel for this very thing." God will do it, but prayer must give a lift; he will be sought to (Jeremiah 29:11-12): "I know the thoughts which I think towards you, says the…

No wonder if we are much in the dark, if we look only to present sense, and present appearance; then his purposes are hidden from us, he brings one contrary out of another, light out of darkness, meat out of the eater. God knows what he is doing with you, when you know not (Jere…

(Ezekiel 36:37) Thus says the Lord God, I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. And (Jeremiah 29:12-13) Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will hearken to you. And…

The Judge himself will be a witness against them: he will then say, My eyes saw what you did, and My ears heard every word that was spoken by you. (Jeremiah 29:23) They have committed villainy in Israel, they have committed adultery — even I know and am a witness, says the Lord.…

It is a truth universal concerning the children of God (1 Peter 1:6): you are in heaviness if need be — which need we are not to measure by our shallow understandings, as if God could not, by his absolute power, bring them another way to glory; but this is the way which his infi…

And what says the Church in that dismal distress of hers (Lamentations 3:26)? it is good that a man should both hope, and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. And God gives his people this encouragement at such a time (Jeremiah 29:11): I know the thoughts that I think tow…

Third, it supposes we are bound to pray for every individual person that they may be saved — for which there is no warrant, rule, precept, or example in Scripture; it is contrary to the apostolic direction (1 John 5:16), to our Savior's example (John 17:9), and to the revealed c…

It is also certain, that when God excites in us a heart to pray to him, and fills us with ardent desires, and groans unutterable, after him for his grace, for his pardoning, for his cleansing of us, and we cannot let him alone; it is a sign that he has great mercies to bestow on…

4. The sweet promises which God has made to prayer, Isaiah 30. 19. He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry, Jeremiah 29. 13, 14. Then shall ye go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you; and ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with…

Faithful: O, they say, Hang him; he is a turncoat; he was not true to his profession! I think God has stirred up even His enemies to hiss at him, and make him a proverb, because he has forsaken the way (Jeremiah 29:18-19). Christian: Had you no talk with him before you came out?

Never did any yet come to Christ and receive him with their whole souls, with all their hearts, but they had fruition of him, and blessedness by him; faith therefore is not the coming of the soul, but the coming of the whole soul to Jesus Christ: and this you may be established…

Ministers are those, that the King of the church has appointed to have the charge of the gate, at which his people enter into the kingdom of heaven, there to be entertained and satisfied with an eternal feast; ministers have the charge of the house of God, which is the gate of h…

(5) Because, if we be obliged not to speak evil of dignities (2 Peter 2:11), nor revile the gods (Exodus 22:8), we are obliged to honor dignities, for where a sin is forbidden, the contrary duty is commanded. (6) Because, God commanded his people the Jews to seek the peace of th…