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.

By his right hand, and the arm of his strength; Isaiah 62:8. By his great name; Jeremiah 44:23. By his soul; Jeremiah 51:14.

God loveth to bless and protect; to destroy is not suitable to his disposition; 'tis a thing that he is forced to. Punitive acts in the representations of the Word are more against his bowels, drawn and extorted from him; as (Jeremiah 44:22) The Lord could no longer bear because…

Say not, it was a good old world when we burnt incense to the Queen of heaven, for then we were well, and saw no evil. But (said the people to Jeremiah) Since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of heaven, and to poure out drink-offerings to her, we have been consumed by th…

Hence to withdraw that inward homage and worship of faith, hope, and love, and the actings thereof, in confessing his name, hearing his Word, praying, and returning the praise of all to him, or to bestow and employ these chief affections and actings of the soul upon other object…

Thirdly, though first men do but only leave God, forsake the thing that is good, yet at length they grow to such a ripeness in sin as they cast it off with abomination; and that's a great deal worse. Merely to neglect that which is good is an evil, but to cast off that which is…

It is pagan, it is Mohammedan, it is above all contrary to the word of God. Indeed the idolatrous crowd of Jews in Egypt argued this very point against the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 44:15-18): "Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and a…

The occasions of the origin of idolatry — The report of the dominion of the sun and moon — In what sense the sun and moon are the two great lights — The monstrous fiction of Jonathan the Targumist — Delegated dominion as a corrupt basis for worship — The vain reasonings of idola…

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.

4. If you perish in your impenitency under these means, you will never be cured. Sinners, by their hardness of heart, withstand the efficacy of the Word and ordinances; and when once it comes to that, that sinners do practically say, as they did expressly (Jeremiah 44:16), as to…

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…

Heart does answer heart, as in the water, face does answer face. The Jews spoke what was in their hearts, when they said to the Prophet, as for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, We will not hearken to you (Jeremiah 44:16). Let a good motion be present…

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…

And every actual sin leaves a spot, a stain, a filthiness behind it upon the man that commits it (Ezekiel 20:43): "You shall remember your ways and all your doings, wherein you have been defiled." And this arises from the moral respect which sin bears to the law of God, which is…

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…

God withholds his judgments till he is weary of holding in, as the expression is (Jeremiah 6:11), till he can forbear no longer. So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations, which you have committed (Jeremiah 44:22).…

This reason does Saint Paul allege, where he advises Titus to reprove the Cretians sharply; for he adds this clause, that they may be sound in the faith (Titus 1:13). If those sinners themselves, whose estate is so laid forth, be obstinate, and will not thereby be any whit moved…

He will grant indeed that God scourges every son whom he loves; but with all adds, that the more God loves any, the more troubles he brings upon them; and therefore infers, that the Gospel of peace is so far from being a means to defend us from trouble, that it is the cause of m…

Is a religious vow to be made to God alone, and not to any creature? Yes, to God alone (Jeremiah 44:25-26; Psalm 76:11). Well then, do not the Papists err, who maintain vows may be made to saints departed, and to cenobiarchs, that is, to priors of monasteries or abbeys?