Jeremiah 44

They teach to be humble, but men remain proud. The Prophet had been denouncing judgments against the people of Judah, but they would not hear (Jeremiah 44:17): We will do whatever goes out of our own mouth, to bake cakes to the Queen of Heaven. Men come quasi armed in coat of ma…

A sinner tramples upon God's law, crosses his will, does all he can to affront, yes to spite God. The Hebrew word for sin, Pashang, signifies rebellion; there is the heart of a rebel in every sin (Jeremiah 44:16): We will do whatever proceeds out of our mouth, to burn incense to…

The lusts of your father you will do. He has got your hearts, and him you will obey (Jeremiah 44:17). We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven.

He that keeps my works to the end, to him will I give the morning star. Use 1. This indicts such who live in a contradiction to this text; they have cast off the yoke of obedience (Jeremiah 44:16). As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not…

3. The Will. Contumacy — it is the seat of rebellion: the sinner crosses God's will to fulfill his own (Jeremiah 44:17). We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven.

A natural man not only cannot keep the law through weakness, but he breaks it through willfulness. (Jeremiah 44:17) We will do whatever goes out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven. 2. As the unregenerate cannot keep the moral law perfectly, so neither can the r…

The bee naturally gives honey; it stings only when it is provoked. God does not punish till he can bear no longer (Jeremiah 44:22): "So that the Lord could bear no longer, because of the evil of your doings." Mercy is God's right hand, that he is most used to.

Besides, what you have heard, remember, sin is the accursed thing (Joshua 7:21). It is the abominable thing God hates (Jeremiah 44:4). O do not this abominable thing that I hate.

If we compare this with its contrary, it will be further clear, to wit, wherever there is estimation of Christ, it proves a help to faith and a ground of it; so wherever Christ is despised and undervalued, it breeds in folk, and is a ground to them of these three. 1. It cools, o…

4. Conscience takes it on its will, and fathers disobedience on the will (1 Samuel 8:19). "No, but we shall, or we will have a King" (Jeremiah 44:16). The people avow their will, and their peremptory resolution is: "We will not listen to you."

Christ says to the sick man, will you be made whole? Then there was a stop in his will, as well as in his weakness (Jeremiah 44:16). As for the word that you have spoken to us, in the Name of the Lord, we will not hearken to you.

I live says God, it shall be so. And sometimes by his name, Jeremiah 44:26. God as it were engags the honor and glory of the properties of his nature for the certain accomplishment of the things mentioned.

(Compare this with Isaiah 45:23, 24, 25.) Jeremiah 44:26. Behold I have sworn by my great Name, says the Lord, that my Name shall no more be named in the Mouth of any Man of Judah in all the Land of Egypt, saying, the Lord lives.

Was the king able to save them from the fire which God sent down from heaven upon them (2 Kings 1:9, etc.)? The women reproved for offering incense to the Queen of heaven, did it not without their husbands, yet were they not excused thereby (Jeremiah 44:19). The children and oth…

They give God good words, but do not break out into an actual contest; as those wretches (Jeremiah 18:12): We will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. And (Jeremiah 44:17): We will certainly do whatever thing goes forth out of our own mouth. There are many things whe…

"You will not come to me that you may have life" (John 5:40). "As for the word of the Lord, we will not hearken, but we will certainly do whatever thing goes forth out of our own mouth" (Jeremiah 44:16-17). And it is out of the abundance of folly and madness that is in men's hea…

It is certain that if the truth follows a man home to his beloved sin, if he be a dog he will snarl against it, and resolve to keep his sin. As the proud men there said (Jeremiah 44:16-17), "As for the word of the Lord you have spoken to us, we will not hearken to you;" and if a…

They encountered Paul, they came into the field with cavils against his doctrine: observe how careful an unwilling heart is to invent a shift, and how content to take it; and if yet he fail of his hopes, and is not able to make his party good with the [reconstructed: truth], he…

God's rod upon others is a fescue to point us to obedience; if God has not his end in respect of duty, we cannot have our end in respect of glory. Consider what a sin disobedience is; that is a sad scripture (Jeremiah 44:16): as for the word you have spoken to us in the name of…

- 2. Our Affections. 1. Let us mourn for the corruption of our Will: The will not following the dictamen of right reason, is byassed to evil: The will distasts God, not as he is good, but as he is holy: It contumaciously affronts him, (Jeremiah 44:17). We willdo whatsoever thing…

2. Sin must needs bring a man low, because the sinner enters a contest with God. —invadunt Martem clypeis, pugnamque lacessunt— He tramples upon Gods Law, crosses his will; if God be of one mind, the sinner will be of another; he does all he can to spite God, Jeremiah 44.16. As…

It is a wonder that they can get into these ways without danger of breaking their necks. Mr. Great-Heart: They will venture: indeed, if at any time any of the King's servants do happen to see them, and do call upon them, and tell them that they are in the wrong way, and do bid t…