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…

Chapter 44, verse 22: I have blotted out as a thick cloud your transgressions, and as a cloud your sins. Jeremiah 50:10: In those days and at that time says the Lord the iniquity of Jacob shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be…

To this Church every one that would please God, and walk before him, was bound to join himself, by the ways and means that he had appointed for that end; namely, by circumcision, and their laying hold on the covenant of God (Exodus 12:48; Isaiah 56:4). And this joining to the Ch…

Those Cities were utterly destroyed, and accordingly is the destruction of Sodom put for an utter overthrow. See (Isaiah 13:19; Zephaniah 2:9; Jeremiah 48:18; Jeremiah 50:40; 2 Peter 2:6). From there, that in judgements wicked men may be brought to an utter destruction.

I find in Scripture that these three things had a beginning among the Priests and Prophets. 1. Sin, error, and scandal begins at them (Jeremiah 50:6): Their Shepherds have caused them to go astray. And (Jeremiah 23:15): From the Prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone out into…

And the molten image a teacher of lies (Habakkuk 2:18), for their idols have spoken vanity, and their diviners have seen a lie (Zechariah 10:2). The Scripture is very frequent and copious in this argument, because men are very apt to value their own inventions and additions to t…

Jeremiah 50:5. Come let us join ourselves to the Lord, in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten. Although that which is foretold in these two chapters, and namely in the fourth and fifth verses of this chapter, was in part fulfilled when the people of God returned fro…

Yes, even in the Prophecies of the Destruction of Babylon itself, the depriving her of her Treasures, seems to be one Thing intended by the drying up of her Waters. This seems manifest by the Words of the Prophecy in Jeremiah 50:37, 38, "A Sword is upon her Treasures, and they s…

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…

It is the day of the Lord's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion (Isaiah 34:8). It is the vengeance of the Lord and his Temple that lights upon them, in that day (Jeremiah 50:28). The violence done to me and my flesh, be upon Babylon shall the inhabitan…

(4.) The things mentioned (Apocalypse 21:27) are effects of this work of Christ in and towards his church, not the work itself here expressed, as the first view of the place will manifest. § 12 He adds, In the other prophets, the restoration of the Christian church from the Baby…

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…

2. In challenging himself (Proverbs 5), How have I hated instruction. 3. In a godly improving of Jesus Christ, as the ransom-payer, and believing in him, for the Lord's way of moral removing of sin, by pardoning thereof (Jeremiah 50:20). But this is also a tempting of God.

Nor is the acting of the Spirit tied only to the public ministry; the saints take to their houses clusters of wine-grapes, which they feed upon at home. Let the saints meet, and by conference and prayer draw down new influences of the Spirit (Jude 20; Isaiah 2:1, 2, 3; Jeremiah…

6. And all the while his presence is mighty in the soul-love to him: I sought him whom my soul loved, four times expressed (v. 1, v. 2, v. 3, v. 4), so that the gleaning is better than the full harvest, the mid-night absence has as many sweet privileges as the noon day's presenc…

Be rather frequenting hospitals of sick ones, making it your work to gain many; it's like to Christ (Luke 16:6, 7, 10; Matthew 9:10, 11, 12, 13; Luke 15). God ordinarily showers influences and promises influences to the flocking together of the godly, and the pouring of his spir…

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,…

As long as the law makes its demands of the sinner personally, so long his sin lies upon him, and he is guilty; but when this pardon is bestowed, he ceases legally to be a sinner, that is, he is not a guilty one, because he is discharged from the sentence that was out against hi…

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.

Hear this, all of you who are sincere in heart: continue to seek God's face, and all your sins will be as if they had never been committed. What was said of Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 50:20 — 'The iniquity of Jacob will be sought for and none will be found' — will be said of y…

2. When men enter into covenant with God, they draw near to him. Such are said to join themselves to the Lord (Jeremiah 50:5; Isaiah 56:6). As they that are wholly strangers to the covenant are said to be without God (Ephesians 2:12) and to be far off (Acts 2:39), so the Lord's…

For being the work of God, we may say of it as Solomon says in another case (Ecclesiastes 3:14), it must be for ever. When God has once justified a man, he will say as Pilate of his writing, what I have written, I have written; so may the Lord say, whom I have justified, I have…

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 (…

Your face has beauty in it, but in your breast there does no strength nor resolution rest. The last effect (which I shall but name) is that which Aristotle calls [illegible], rashness or precipitancy; which is the most tyrannical violence which passion uses; when, in spite of al…