Jeremiah 5

Use 1. If God is so infinite in power, fear this great God. We are apt to fear such as are in power; (Jeremiah 5:22) Fear you not me, says the Lord? will you not tremble at my presence? He has power to cast our souls and bodies into Hell; (Psalm 90:11) Who knows the power of his…

Quest. But what is it to have other gods besides the true God? I fear upon search we have more idolaters among us than we are aware of. Resp. To trust in any thing more than God, is to make it a God. 1. If we trust in our riches, then we make riches our God: we may take comfort,…

Thus God has visited us with the sun-beams of his favour: He has made us swim in a sea of mercy: This is a happy visitation. 2. There is God's visiting in anger (Jeremiah 5:9). Shall I not visit for these things? That is, God's visiting with the rod; and (Isaiah 10:3). What will…

Either God can remove mountains, or can leap over them (Song of Solomon 2:8). Branch 2. If God be so great a king, let us fear him (Jeremiah 5:22), Fear you not me says the Lord? Will you not tremble at my presence? We have enough fear of men.

Therefore the adulterer is described like a horse neighing. (Jeremiah 5:8) Every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. Nay, this is worse than brutish; for some creatures that are void of reason, yet by the instinct of nature observe a kind of decorum, or chastity.

How unworthy is this — would we not cry shame of him who had a friend always feeding him with money, and he should betray and injure that friend. Thus ungratefully do sinners deal with God, they do not only forget his mercies but abuse them (Jeremiah 5:7): "When I had fed them t…

Surely God will be ashamed of those, that are not ashamed when he rebukes them. It is not magnanimity, but stupidity to make light of God's corrections, and for this the afflicted are smartly taxed (Jeremiah 5:3), I have smitten them but they have not grieved. When God struck Jo…

Who say they shall have peace, and please themselves with this their good hope, say the Word what it will. O! be persuaded, that this is nothing else but woeful unbelief and presumption; and we preach to you terror and the curse of God, though you cry peace to yourselves; the Lo…

The Lord calls this a deceiving of Him, for He says in His Word, that there is no peace to the wicked, and the foolish presumer says, I shall have peace; shall His Word or theirs stand? They say (Jeremiah 5:12; Jeremiah 7:9), "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are t…

(Isaiah 10:3) When God asks of them, What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation that shall come upon you from far? to whom will you flee for help? where will you leave your glory? (Jeremiah 5:31) What will you do in the end? Guiltiness is a shiftless and a…

In that mighty collection of waters in the sea, we cannot look upon that vast expansion of the firmament, that huge body of waters in the sea without some religious horror — what is the God that made all this? (Jeremiah 5:22) Do you not fear me, says the Lord? Will you not tremb…

No, God forbid. But we ourselves by our disloyalty, have been rejected: indeed, we have thereby repelled and put back his benefits from us (Jeremiah 5:25). And yet the Prophet condemns not only the men of his age, but those also of the ages before.

Chap. 16. 3. So also Jer. 5. 13. And the Prophets shall become [[original in non-Latin script]]Wind; or, be vain, foolish, uncertain, and false in their Predictions.

Section 15. There are two reasons why rewards and punishments annexed to commands generally do little influence the minds of men inclined to transgress them: first, that men judge they may justly prefer their own satisfaction in transgression before the rewards and punishments d…

But not to take notice of it, is a vile and bruitish contempt of God, Ia. 1:3 Zeph. 3:2 You would not do so by a man for whom you have any respect. It's the character of the wicked, not to regard Gods favors, Isaiah 26:10 or frowns, Jeremiah 5:3 In a word. men can never order th…

It signifies a magistrate, and so in various places of Scripture, man is put for a magistrate, especially when it is expressed as here, by Ish (Genesis 43:11). Carry a present to the man, namely to the governor of the country (Jeremiah 5:1). Go through Jerusalem and search, and…

In an evil part, God is said to visit when he rewards those sins at which he seemed to connive, with deserved punishments; So (Psalm 89:32): I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. And (Jeremiah 5:9): Shall I not visit for these things? sa…

The perfection of a man is to govern himself according to law and reason, to bound and circumscribe his actions by the rules of what is fit and honest; whereas beasts show the inferiority of their natures by the scope and range of their unguided appetites, per vagas & effusas li…

If these men separate to be better instructed, I wish with all my heart their teachers would be pleased so far to condescend from their higher speculations, as to instruct them, that to attest any thing by their faith, or by their truth, is a wicked oath. For all oaths which are…

Has not the cursed leaven of this common sin of the times, spread itself also in the city? Therefore the Lord also has made ready his wrath as in a hot oven; and though like a baker he has seemed to sleep while he lay in wait, and delayed to execute his judgments; yet in the mor…

And now God has executed his judgments of plague and fire in London, have not we reason to fear that his anger is not yet turned away, but his hand is stretched out still? When the houses of London were consumed, which were the fuel to the late Fire, then the Fire quickly went o…

Israel of old made covenants and seemed very religious, and God himself attested that they had well said, but wishes: O that there were such a heart in them! We have a strange passage in (Jeremiah 5:2): Though they say, the Lord lives, surely they swear falsely. Why?

The former Part of this Profession of Religion was called saying, The Lord lives. Jeremiah 5:2. And though they say, The Lord lives, yet surely they Swear falsely.

This made Abraham willing to wander up and down many years as a stranger in the world; for he looked for a city that has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. The hopes of such a harvest is encouragement enough to work hard, and wait long; yet some Christians are so impat…

And in Deuteronomy 23:18. The hire of a whore, and the price of a dog, are put together. The expression of this lust in words or gesture, is called neighing, Jeremiah 5:8. Even as fed horses do, that scatter their lust promiscuously. Or if the Scripture speaks of them as men, ye…

3. These are joined together, because sin is the great obstacle and hindrance of all the blessings which we expect from God. (Jeremiah 5:25) Your sins have withheld good things from you. When mercy comes to us, sin stands in the way, and turns it back again, so that it cannot ha…

Many times in a mean condition a man seems to make conscience of doing the will of God; but when prosperous, he grows wanton and disobedient. (Jeremiah 5:5) I will get me to the great men, but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. So that there are a great…

And shall not we Fear this God? Jeremiah 5:22. Fear ye not me, says the Lord, will ye not tremble at my presence?

Possibly this may be the meaning of that (Psalm 5:9), Their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue; that is, the slanders of the wicked are a preparation to death, as an open sepulchre is prepared to swallow and take in the dead carcass. I expound it thus, b…

1. Of a stupid carelessness under the rod; it is a time of seeking after God, a summons to the creature to come before him. Now if we think to sport away our trouble without looking after God's comforts, it is a desperate security (Jeremiah 5:12). They have belied the Lord, and…

1. The fear of reverence when the soul is deeply possessed with a sense of God's majesty and goodness, that it dares not offend him: his greatness and majesty has an influence upon this fear. Do you not fear me, says the Lord, will you not tremble at my presence, who have placed…

And besides this, there are three things which speak approbation; as, When we take pleasure in the actions or the actors (Jeremiah 5:30-31): the Prophets prophesy falsely, and the Priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so, that is, they set their seal to…

Man's mercy is large when it reaches to seven times — what is God, then, that reaches to more than seventy times seven in a day! (Matthew 18:21). When good men have prayed, "Lord, forgive them not" (Isaiah 2:9; Jeremiah 18:23), yet God has pardoned: and when himself was so put t…

So troubles and horrors, hellish and heartbreaking amazements, are sown for the wicked, and that in their greatest delights; and the longer these are in growing and ripening, their harvest of horrors of conscience will be out of measure dreadful. As the Prophet to those who carr…

5. Those things which (if we have nothing else) will make us cursed, cannot make us blessed; but the sole enjoyment of worldly things will make us cursed; therefore it is far from making us blessed: Riches are kept for the hurt of the owner (Ecclesiastes 5:13). Riches to the wic…

3. My sickness, my pain, my bands owe themselves to God, and are debtors to his glory, I, and every one of men should say, O that my pain might praise him, and my hell, and flamings of everlasting fire, might be an everlasting Psalm of the glory of his justice; that my sorrow co…

God smites on mens backs, but they smite not with Ephraim upon their thigh . It was a sad complaint the Prophet took up, (Jeremiah 5:3). you have stricken them, but they have not grieved. That sure is reprobate silver which contracts hardness in the furnace, 2 (Chronicles 28:22).

Ingratitude is worse than brutish, Isaiah 1. 3. 'Tis reported of Julius Caesar, that he would never forgive an ungrateful person; though God be a sin-pardoning God, he scarce knows not how to pardon for this, Jeremiah 5. 7. How shall I pardon thee for this, thy children have for…

It was said of Rome of old, it was become a Stews,—Urbs est jam tota Lupanar— I wish it might not be verified of many parts of this Land. Adultery is a brutish sin, Jeremiah 5:8. They neighed every one after his neighbour's Wife.

When were they then sinners? Never, their sins were just no sins from eternity, and blotted away as a cloud, as a thick cloud, as it is (Isaiah 44:22), and that from eternity, and from eternity sought and not found, because pardoned (Jeremiah 5:20), no more remembered (Isaiah 43…

Secondly, so God's goodness. Reason 1. Because it shows us the desperateness of our danger; to sin against a great God, is great danger, but yet there may be a remedy, but to sin against a good God, that makes our case desperate, as thus, When a man's heart is convinced that he…

He who had received a better heart than Solomon, and yet seeing it so bad, had good reason to give Solomon this charge: Above all keepings, keep your heart. This deceitfulness of man's heart is mentioned in Jeremiah 5:22-23, 24: this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart…

And now, no wonder if only Noah, and eight persons more for his sake, be preserved. (Jeremiah 5:30-31) Had there been many horrible things committed, and God's people but mourned and been ashamed of them, God would never have looked at it, as such a wonderful and horrible matter…