Jeremiah 50

As the cancelling a bond nulls the bond, and makes it as if the money had never been owing. Forgiving sin makes it not to be: where sin is remitted, it is as if it had not been committed (Jeremiah 50:20). So that, as Rachel wept because her children were not; so a child of God m…

Third, in urging this doctrine more hardly upon the people, to cause them not to rest on the letter of the law, but seek to the promised Messiah, in whom only was their righteousness — as young heirs and minors are kept under tutors while their minority expires. But, first, who…

We ourselves were sometime [illegible], mad; but the Lord has a gracious [illegible], when; When the kindness and man-love of God appeared, he saved us. And (Jeremiah 50:4), In those days, and at that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children…

So is the world — all nations — taken (Mark 14:9-10), and the word "world" (Mark 16:15). Second, taking away of sin is the actual, free, complete pardoning of sin, so that Judas's sin is sought and not found (Jeremiah 50:20), as (2 Samuel 24:10), David having numbered the people…

When God turned the captivity of his people, this was their affection; then was their mouth filled with laughter, and their tongue with singing, etc. Now the same people that so rejoice to see themselves redeemed by the arm of the Lord, when they do rejoice to see themselves set…

6. It has a bottom and that of gold: a bottom is to show its stability and firmness, to sustain and keep up these who ride in it, and gold shows its solidity and preciousness, it's a rich bottom, therefore the new Jerusalem is said to have her streets of pure gold (Revelation 21…

And this love-assertion, "you are all fair," holds true of the Bride, in these four respects, 1. In respect of justification and absolution she is clean, though needing washing in other respects (John 13): "You are clean by the word that I have [reconstructed: spoken]," yet they…

Sinners tire out themselves in the Devil's drudgery (Jeremiah 9:5): They [reconstructed: weary] themselves to commit iniquity. They are out of breath with sin, yet not out of love with sin (Jeremiah 50:38): They are mad upon their idols. So violent were the Jews, that they would…

Learned men suppose, by what they gather from some of the most ancient accounts of things, that it was in this land that idolatry first began; that Babel and Chaldea were the original and chief seat of the worship of idols, whence it spread into other nations. Therefore the land…

They seek me daily, they delight to know my way, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. See how far these went; if God had not said they were rotten and un…

If we would judge ourselves we shall not be judged of the Lord (1 Corinthians 11:31). Who would not now be convinced that he may then be acquitted — see his sins now for his humiliation, that he may never have them then laid to his charge (Jeremiah 50:20). In those days and at t…

Stormy gales at sea toss a man most, but soonest land him. Therefore do not so much fear the blow, as be thankful and be willing to follow the blow; nor so much desire to be eased, as not to be deceived; not so much to have the work over, as to have it made good upon your soul;…

God's not imputing sin means he will never call for the debt; or if it should be called for, it shall be hidden out of sight. Jeremiah 50:20: In those days the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found. No…

Sin is the poison of the soul, yet people love it; and he who loves his sin hates a reproof. Sin possesses people with a kind of madness (Luke 15:7); people are mad in sin (Jeremiah 50:38). When sickness grows so violent that people lie raving and are mad, they quarrel with thei…

2. Believers are delivered, in Christ, from the victory, sting, power of sin, curse of the law, and every curse that is in affliction, and from condemnation not in part only, but in whole — else their triumph were but in part, contrary to 1 Corinthians 15:54-56, Hosea 13:14, Isa…

5. It necessarily must follow, if it be sin to eat, because the non-converted have no spiritual right in Christ, to bread, the converted may spoil by their grounds, all the non-converted, of their goods, houses, gold, gardens, vineyards, lands, and upon the same ground, for the…

Every Sermon will come in as an Indictment. As for such as have truly repented, Christ will answer for them; his blood will wash away their sins; the mantle of free-grace will cover them, (Jeremiah 50:20). In those daies says the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for,…

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven. The Hebrew word to forgive signifies to carry out of sight; which well agrees with that, Jeremiah 50:20. In those days (says the Lord) the sins of Judah shall be sought for, and they shall not be found.

But God gives to men the title which they give themselves, and so lost here, is such as are lost in their own esteem; for Christ's intention in coming in the flesh, and dying is to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10). In this sense (Matthew 9:13) and (1 Timothy 1:15), Christ…

And when wicked men sin, their conscience is past feeling (Ephesians 4:19), and seared with a hot iron (1 Timothy 4:2). It is not an argument of faith, apprehending sin pardoned, not to mourn for sin and confess it; for if this be a good argument, that if we being justified, can…

Indeed, it is certain that the flesh cannot, and does not complain of its own motions against the spirit, sin cannot complain of sin; it is the renewed part that complains of the stirrings and motions of the unrenewed part: Satan is not divided against Satan, nor sin against sin…

It will help much even then; but much more will it help, if a man in his daily constant course remember God, it will quiet his heart in all changes of sorrow. My people have gone astray from mountain to hill, from one refuge to another, these have forgotten their resting place (…