Jeremiah 33

The promises are mulctralia Evangelii, the breasts of the Gospel milking out consolation; and who are to suck of these breasts but God's children. The promise of pardon is for them; (Jeremiah 33:8). I will pardon all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me. The promis…

When a poor sinner looks upon himself, and sees his guilt, and when he looks upon God's justice and holiness, he falls down confounded, but here is that may be as cork to the net, to keep him from despair, if you will leave your sins and come to Christ, mercy can seal your pardo…

2. From whom it comes, it's from him, her being his love, makes her like the lily. 3. The nearness of the mystical union, that is between Christ and his Bride; it is such, that thereby they some way share names (Jeremiah 23:6 and Jeremiah 33:16). 3. He intermixes her beauty and…

In the exhortation or invitation, consider: 1. the party invited, or called. 2. The duty called for. 3. Its repetition. The party called, is a Shulamite: this word comes either from Solomon, as the husband's name is named over the wife (Isaiah 4:1), and it is from the same root…

See also Jeremiah 31:12, 13 and Amos 9:13. Yea then they shall receive all manner of tokens of God's presence, and acceptance, and favor Jeremiah 33:9. "And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good…

2. That in heaven there is an emblem of it: it is usual in Scripture to set forth the stability and constancy of God's word by this similitude; as (Psalm 89:2): Mercy shall be built up forever, your faithfulness have you established in the very heavens. So when it is compared wi…

We see how by his mercy the Lord reconciles us to himself. And so in another place, when he foretells that the people shall be gathered together again, whom he had scattered abroad in his wrath, he says, I will cleanse them from all wickedness with which they have sinned against…

Jeremiah 33:16. "And this is the name with which he shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness." Whoever is but a little acquainted with the nature of man in general, and the impurity of his own heart in particular, I am persuaded he must acknowledge that self-righteousness is…

2. Meditate upon promises of Sanctification. The earth is not so apt to be overgrown with weeds and thorns, as the heart is to be overgrown with lusts; now, God has made many promises of healing, Hosea 14:4, and purging, Jeremiah 33:8. Promises of sending his Spirit; which for i…

Thirdly and lastly, promises are arguments to infer our purification, because in many of them that is the very matter of which they consist, and so the power and fidelity of God is engaged for our purification. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned…