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…

A Christian man's beginning is to believe in Christ, and the best end he can make is to suffer for Christ. (Jeremiah 32:40) I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will never depart from them, to do them good (lo, the everlasting forgiveness of sins) and I will put…

It was the whole of what God designed in our creation to his own glory and our everlasting blessedness. What was in the tables of stone was nothing but a transcript of what was written in the heart of man originally; and which is returned there again by the grace of the new Cove…

And two things may be denoted hereby, (1) the inclination and disposition of the mind of God, he was free, he was not averse from it. This is that which is generally intended, when we say we are willing to any thing that is proposed to us; that is, we are free, and not averse to…

The Synod having said in the conclusion of their fifth argument for confirming this fifth proposition, that the more holy, reforming, and glorious that the [illegible] are or shall be, the more eminently is a successive continuation, and propagation of the church therein designe…

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,…

Christ had prayed that Peter's faith might not fail, yet together with the other Apostles he bids him Watch (Luke 22:40, and 46). The fear of God is a preserving grace, and taken into the Covenant; (Jeremiah 32:40) I will put my fear into their hearts, and they shall not depart…

All the earth is mine, is not a reason why the church was his treasure, but an incentive of thankfulness, that when the whole earth was his, and lay before him, and there were many people that he might have chosen and loved before them, yet he pitched upon them to make them his…

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.

But the inference is not good, that therefore it should be unlawful to enter into Church-Covenant: for, first, by the same reason, all promises are unlawful, and all covenants whatever; as the covenant of marriage, the covenant of service, yes and the personal covenant of Grace,…

And we have these two excellent texts in Jeremiah 18:13, Ask you now among the heathen, who has heard such things? the Virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing; that's the aggravation that it is the Virgin of Israel that has done such a horrible thing. But especially that…

A time wherein all heresies and false doctrines shall be exploded, and the church of God shall not be rent with a variety of jarring opinions (Zechariah 14:9, "The Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one."). And all superstiti…

Another root is held to mean "to choose" and "to purify," by Mercerus at the root entry. Whatever its origin, the word often signifies a bare "promise," 2 Samuel 23:5; Jeremiah 31:31, 32; also a gratuitous and irrevocable "gift," Numbers 18:9; and a "statute" or decree of God, J…

In the meanwhile, as these things are being transacted between God and the sinful soul through the word, God Himself, in His infinite mercy in Jesus Christ, when and how He wills, by a manner altogether ineffable yet powerful and effective, through His most holy Spirit, bestows…

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…

And as we said, until the time limited for the expiration of that special Covenant, they were all made good to them. That it was to expire, themselves are forced to acknowledge, because of the express promise of a new, or another Covenant to be made not like to it (Jeremiah 32).…

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You are man (Ezekiel 34:1). But where the word Adam is used with this praefix [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] as here, it no where signifies Israel; but is expresly used in a contradistinction from them; as Jeremiah 32:20, which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Aegypt, even…

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):…

Adam was not to believe or pray for perseverance. There being in the Covenant of works no influences, by which we may will and doe to the end, promised to Adam; and no predeterminating influences, and no Gospel-fear of God, by which we shall persevere, and not depart from the Lo…

Matthew 6:13. Lead us not into temptation. 3. Influences to will and to do are promised in the covenant of grace (Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 32:39, 40; Ezekiel 36:27), and so does Christ promise the Spirit and his teaching (John 14:26), convincing (John 16:7), guiding (v. 13). T…

6. Especially in bowing the free will, and determining all the actions of evil angels (1 Kings 22:21, 22, 23; Job 1:6, 7, 8; Job 2:1, 2, 3; Genesis 3:1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Matthew 8:29, 30, 31) and good (Luke 2:9, 13; Matthew 28:1, 2, 3; Acts 1:20; 2 Thessalonians 1:7) leading and dete…

Hence these influences of grace are from the Spirit, not as from the third person of the blessed Trinity simply; for so the Spirit is the power of God, sometimes as Judge sitting, and by a judicial power, making tormenting convictions dreadfully effectual upon the consciences of…

We have a loose faith, the head shall care and watch for us, though we sleep; that is, Christ is graciously careful to give influences, whether we sleep or wake, pray or pray not: our care can add nothing to his care; if he will fail in his trust, and sleep, and let us perish, l…

(10.) Nor shall it be in the power of the Almighty to be faithful and true in fulfilling his promise of giving a new heart to the elect (Jeremiah 31:31; Ezekiel 36:26; Hebrews 8:8-10), for though the Lord of free grace give, wicked free-will may refuse to receive the new heart.…

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…