Jeremiah 36

3. His greatness and majesty is such, that we cannot comprehend it (Job 36:26): Behold God is great and we know him not, nor can the number of his years be searched out. The greatness of God cannot be known, but only by way of negation, that he has none of those infirmities, whi…

The not renting the garment is charged as a conviction of an un-rent heart. When the roll of curses that Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah was read before Jehojakim and his courtiers, the King cut the roll with a penknife and cast it into the fire; their impenitence is thu…

The Lord speaks of some who when they hear the words of the curse, yet bless themselves, and say they shall have peace; Deuteronomy 29:19. Let men preach, and say what they please of the terror of the Lord, they will despise it; which God threatens with utter extermination: And…

It is impossible that any one should be really convinced of sin in the way before declared, but that a dislike of sin, and of himself that he has sinned, shame of it, and sorrow for it, will ensue thereon. And it is a sufficient evidence that he is not really convinced of sin, w…