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Jeremiah 40

2 passages from 2 books in the Christian Reader library reference Jeremiah 40.

The Golden Scepter
from The Golden Scepter Held Forth to the Humble by John Preston

If you would seek him so, and seek him importunately, though you had the securest, hardest heart of any in the world, he would at length teach you to fear him. Jeremiah 40: 'I will plant my fear in your hearts, that they shall not depart from me.' Thus you see that God takes the…
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Chapter 1: The Glory of God
from The Sincere Convert by Thomas Shepard · cites Jeremiah 40:5

Seek him weeping, and you shall find him. Bind yourself by the strongest oaths and bonds in covenant to be his, and he will enter into covenant with you, and so be yours (Jeremiah 40:5). The fourth use is, an use of comfort to them that forsake all for this God: you have not los…
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