Jeremiah 34

This is like a man that holds his breath under water, and then takes breath again. (Jeremiah 34:15-16) You were now turned, and had done right in my sight; but you turned and polluted my holy name. 3. Men may leave gross sin, and yet live in more spiritual sins; leave drunkennes…

Secondly, by his secret will, which is his providence or hidden decree, by which he does so govern all things, that nothing can be done without it or against it: as in these places. Jeremiah 34:22: I will command and call back the Assyrians against this city. Lamentations 3:37:…

Ans. But is this certain, that a different way of covenanting makes a different kind of membership? In Genesis 15 there is covenanting by dividing the heifer, the goat, &c. in the midst, and passing between the pieces or parts; and so in Jeremiah 34. In Genesis 17 there is coven…

2 Pet. 3:5-7, The new heaven and new earth — What the old world was — The new world, (Isaiah 51:15, 16; 65:17; 66:22) — The age to come — The future world — Noah a just man — The antediluvian had faith — Theology restored and enlarged in his family after the flood — The first ex…

(1.) To seal, is to consummate, to establish, and confirm. Things are perfected, completed, established and confirmed by sealing (Jeremiah 34:44; Isaiah 8:16; John 3:34; Romans 4:11). In this sense, vision and prophecy were sealed in the Messiah.

Thus it fell out with David, whose last ways were not like his first; and yet by this, these holy fruits are not utterly destroyed, because it is the seed of God; and so is immortal (1 John 5:4-5). And also because the promises of perseverance and victory made to it, cannot be f…

When they pollute and shame themselves, the Lord is polluted in them (Ezekiel 13:19): "Will they pollute me among my people?" And (Jeremiah 34:16): "You have polluted my name." Christ, that will hereafter be admired in his saints, will now be glorified in them.

Ergo, now neither testament nor covenant was confirmed by blood simply, but by the blood of a living creature slain. Hence the making of a covenant was by cutting a calf or a beast in two, and passing between the parts thereof (Jeremiah 34:18), and so they entered into a curse (…