Jeremiah 32

Branch 4. From hence, God manifest in the flesh, Christ born of a Virgin, a thing not only strange in nature, but impossible, learn, That there are no impossibilities with God: God can bring about things which are not within the sphere of nature to produce: That iron should swim…

But indeed it is God's power that we question. Is anything too hard for God? (Jeremiah 32:27) yet we stagger through unbelief, as if the arm of God's power were shrunk, and he could not help in desperate cases. Take away a king's power and we un-king him; take away the Lord's po…

2. As God has asserted it, so he has promised it: The Truth of God, the most brilliant Pearl of his Crown, is laid a pawn in the promise (John 10:28): I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish. (Jeremiah 32:42) I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I…

It is spoken of Israel's march out of Egypt, when the sea fled, and the waters were parted each from other. Here was the power of God set forth (Jeremiah 32:27): Is anything too hard for me? God loves to help, when things seem past hope; he creates deliverance (Psalm 124:8).

The text calls it Berith Gnolam, an everlasting covenant. Such as are in covenant are elected; God's electing love is unchangeable (Jeremiah 32:40). I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, but I will put my fear in their heart, that th…

2. Besides God's decree, he has engaged himself by promise, that the heirs of Heaven shall never be put by their inheritance. God's promises are not like blanks in a lottery, but as a sealed deed which cannot be reversed: The promises are the saints' royal charter; and this is o…

(2.) A saint's perseverance is built upon the covenant of grace; [illegible] a firm, impregnable covenant: This you have in the words of the sweet singer of Israel (2 Samuel 23:5): "God has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure." It is a sweet cove…

Also perseverance in good works and godliness is of grace. So the Lord says, I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will never turn away from them to do them good, but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me (Jeremiah 32:40). Lastly,…

Can difficulties pose the Almighty? Jer. 32. 27. Is there any thing too hard for me? Did not he make the dry bones live? Ezek. 37. 7, 8.

A second ground, of kin to the former, is from the many and various expressions that are used in the Scriptures for holding forth this work of the Spirit of God in conversion, that point out, not only a hand working, and a work wrought; but an inward powerful way of working and…

Many glorious mercies are transacted in God's mind, without our knowledge: Before the corner stone of the earth was laid, he had made sure work of our election to glory (Ephesians 1:4; Romans 9:11). (2.) The everlasting covenant between the Father and the Son, that blessed barga…

(John 16:13) He will guide you in all truth — he will show you things to come. So there is a Spirit of grace poured on the family of David (Zechariah 12:10), on the thirsty ground (Isaiah 44:3), a new heart, put in the midst of the covenanted people (Ezekiel 36:26), fear of God…

It is true, Christ takes not from David, Abraham, prophet, apostle, or from any men or angels that are to be saved the natural created power of nilling and willing, purum [illegible] posse nolle, Christo trahente, but he takes away the moral wicked, and godless power hic & nunc,…

The calling particular (Isaiah 55:1-2; Matthew 11:27-28; Acts 2:39). The Covenant particular, and takes in only the house of Judah, the elect and such as cannot fall away (Jeremiah 31:34-35, etc.; Jeremiah 32:39-40; Isaiah 54:10; Isaiah 59:19-20). The surety of the Covenant, Chr…

Truly he will assuredly fulfill the desires of them that fear him, when we reverence him in his ordinances, pray with reverence, and in a holy fear (Psalm 2:11). Them that go about holy duties in a reverent and holy fear, do all things in the fear of the Lord, he has a spirit of…

2. This eminently shines forth both in his works of creation and providence. 1. Creation, in the stupendous fabric of the heavens (Jeremiah 32:17-19): Ah Lord God, behold you have made the heaven, and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm, and there is nothing too h…

Indeed, in Jeremiah 17:1 he says yet more expressly, that the sin of Judah was written with an iron pen, and with the point of a diamond. To render into their bosom, is a phrase of speech much used in the Scriptures (Psalm 79:12; Jeremiah 32:18), because men think their sins are…

Proverbs 24:12. Jeremiah 32:19. Revelation 22:12.

And on the same account is he compared to Water, Ezek. 36. 35. I will sprinkle clean Water upon you and you shall be clean; which is expounded v. 26. by a New Spirit will I put within you, which God calls his Spirit, Jer. 32. 39. So our Saviour calls him Rivers of Water, Joh. 7.…

Spiritual mercies are of two sorts; such as belong to the Essence, the very being of the new creature, without which it must fail: or to its well being, and the comfort of the inner man; without which you cannot live so cheerfully as you would. The mercies of the former kind are…

Thirdly, The grace of regeneration, and the fruits of it are administred in and by the covenant. This is the promise of the covenant, That God will write his law in our hearts, and put his fear in our inward parts, that we shall not depart from him, Jeremiah 32. This is that gra…

And (Jeremiah 5:9): Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? And in this sense is the word to be taken here, Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children; that is, punishing the fathers' iniquity in t…

Mary's better part shall not be taken away. This fear in the heart, keeps them from departing from God (Jeremiah 32:40). They have constancy in their hearts, and perseverance in their hands [constantiam in proposito, et perseverantiam in opere].

So violent were the Jews, that they would spare no cost in their idolatrous worship (Isaiah 46:6): They lavish gold out of the bag. So fiercely were they bent upon idolatry, that they would sacrifice their sons and daughters to their idol god (Jeremiah 32:35): They built the hig…

"And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one." Then shall be abolished all superstitious ways of worship, and all shall agree in worshipping God in his own ways: Jeremiah 32:39. "And I will give them one heart, and one way…

The first I shall dispatch in these twenty particulars following. The Husbandman purchases his fields, and gives a valuable consideration for them (Jeremiah 32:9-10). So has God purchased his church with a full valuable price, even the precious blood of his own Son (Acts 20:28):…

Learned Perkins said of his times Non sunt ista litigandi tempora, sed orandi, prayers are fitter for these times than disputes, carnal zeal may put us upon disputes it is true, zeal that puts us upon prayer when we are so tenderly affected for God's glory, as that in that respe…

It is upon the matter, the great promise of the new covenant (Ezekiel 11:19). I will put a new Spirit within you: So also (chapter 36, verse 27; Jeremiah 32:39-40) and in sundry other places, whereof afterwards. Christ is the Mediator and Surety of this new covenant (Hebrews 7:2…

The Fear of God is a, a preservative against Apostacy. Jeremiah 32:40. I will put my Fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Against Apostasy they have that promise (Jeremiah 32:40). I will put my fear in their hearts, tha…

For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; which text implies that salvation is by the knowledge of the truth, or knowledge of the true way, others tend to destruction. And so God promises (Jeremiah 32:39), that he will give all the elect o…

This fear has torment in it to the creature, and hatred of God: because by the fear of his curse and the flames of hell he seeks to drive them from sin. 2. Filial fear, as children fear to offend their dear parents; and thus the godly do so fear God, that they do also love him,…

This is a covenant that keeps us as well as we keep it. (Jeremiah 32:40-41): I will put my fear into their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. So (Ezekiel 36:27): There is a promise of influence; I will put my Spirit into you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and yo…

So (Philippians 4:8) whatever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely; whatever is of good report, if there be any virtue, any praise, these things think on and do: Now sin comes under none of these names, but is contrary to them all, and therefore forbidden: God has not for…

Unity in faith and discipline is a mercy we cannot prize enough. This is what God has promised (Jeremiah 32:39) and what we should pursue (Zechariah 8:19). Ambrose said of Emperor Theodosius that when he lay sick, he took more care for the church's peace than for his own recover…

The saints' graces of themselves may break as glasses, but these glasses in the hand of God shall never break. God's solemn engagement: the Lord has passed it under hand and seal, giving bond for the saints' perseverance (Jeremiah 32:40): I will make an everlasting covenant with…

(4.) The same Covenant made with Abraham is made with the Corinthians (2 Corinthians 6:16): I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Which is prophesied of the Gentiles under the New Testament in Ezekiel 11:17-20, Ezekiel 34:23-25, Jeremiah 31:31-36, Jeremiah 32:36-40,…

4. He is a God to his Elect that he may engrave his law in their heart and inward parts; so that the promising to be a God tali modo, is the cause, and the engraving of a new heart is the effect. (Jeremiah 31:33; Jeremiah 32:38) And they shall be my people, and I will be their G…

5. The real personal covenant is everlasting, like that covenant with the Moon and Stars; second, the night and the day; third, of the motion of the Sea (Jeremiah 31:35-37). There is perseverance absolutely promised (Jeremiah 32:40): I will make an everlasting covenant with them…

3. What outward marks the word gives of outward regeneration, and consequently of predestination to glory, justification, effectual calling, made visible, which we must see in others, before pastors can feed them as pastors, for the word is in all the like a perfect rule. Questi…

But when actual influences fall upon a heavenly habit, as the Lord can cast in a coal, or a lump and flood of love (Song of Solomon 2:5-6; Luke 24:32; Song of Solomon 6:12), there are most heavenly actings of the soul. 3. He bows and inclines the heart to the Lord's testimonies,…

Otherwise Christ could not have pronounced Peter blessed [reconstructed: in Greek] (Matthew 16:17) in the present, for believing in the present: for he should not have been blessed to the end: as Solon said of his blessed man. And this cannot but subvert our faith, crush the pea…

3. But persevering grace and so influence of grace to persevere is promised in the Covenant of Grace (Jeremiah 31:35), that they shall continue in Covenant, more sure than the night and the day. (Jeremiah 32:40) I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from…

What says then Christ (Matthew 9:22; Mark 5:34; Mark 10:52; Luke 8:58; Luke 5:20, 24; Mark 5:34; Mark 9:24) indeed and much more says the Holy Ghost of our case, even of everlasting consolation (2 Thessalonians 2:16), strong consolation (Hebrews 6:18), all comfort (2 Corinthians…

Only there is a warrant to say that the Covenant is everlasting: first, because it goes beyond time and stands with the dead in Christ (Matthew 22:32); second, because two great promises of the Covenant — the rising of the body and life everlasting — are fulfilled after time is…

1. If they cannot fall away, who are thus seated in the covenant, is not free will left to much looseness of security? Answ. Not at all: For a principle of godly fear is fixed in the heart, and so in free will, never to depart from God (Jeremiah 32:39-40). And where this godly a…

Nor that he wills that they should believe either their eternal damnation, or their final and total falling away, which inevitably leads to that. For they, knowing that they are in Christ (2 Corinthians 13:5; Romans 8:16-17) and freed from condemnation (Romans 8:1), are to belie…

God never said that he would be Adam's God by giving him influences to obey, and to obey to the end, all influences granted to Adam, to will and to do, were granted to him. 1. By God Creator, not by the grace of a Redeemer, as in the Covenant of Grace, to walk (Ezekiel 36:27), t…

Q. What way is God ours? A. By Covenant (Ezekiel 34:24; Genesis 17:7; Jeremiah 32:38; Zechariah 13:9). But he is not ours as if we had some gifted right and dominion over him, as we have over the creatures.

The Lord speaks often of the Covenant of Grace not so much as preached, qua foedus ennunciatum (though it so also must be preached) but as fulfilled by God, and acted in an effectual powerful way, upon the hearts of the elect only, and that according to the Lord's decree of elec…