Jeremiah 43

So that place is translated (Psalm 17:14), Deliver my soul from the wicked which is your Sword (you see a wicked man is God's Sword) and from men which are your hand. So that your hand may be understood of an instrument; Satan himself is God's hand to punish in that sense, as wi…

As then was said before, the Scriptures being [illegible], is not the case the same, as with a man that was so? is there any thing in the Writing of it by Gods Command, that should impair its Authority? nay is it not freed from innumerable prejudices that attended it, in its fir…

And verse 5: The [reconstructed: LORD] be a true and faithful witness [reconstructed: between] us, if we do [reconstructed: not] even according to all things for which the Lord [reconstructed: our] God shall [reconstructed: send] to us, whether it be good [reconstructed: or] evi…

All the world shall not persuade — if there were a hundred, and a hundred ministers to that, they shall never make him believe but his condition is safe, [illegible] his way and person such as God will accept. So they to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 43:2): You speak falsely, the Lord [ill…

The seed that had not depth of earth withered and came to nothing (Matthew 13:5-6); the reason men do not bring forth the fruits of obedience is because they have not depth of earth — they were never yet deeply humbled for sin. A proud man will never obey; instead of trampling h…