Jeremiah 6

Hence [in non-Latin alphabet] is one rejected, disproved upon trial, reprobate (1 Corinthians 9:27; 2 Corinthians 13:5, 6; Titus 1:16). The whole is expressed (Jeremiah 6:29, 30): the bellows are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire, the founder melts in vain, reprobate silve…

He works it at first, and brings it about thus, by opening the Gospel, wherein God is revealed as pacified in Christ; which is the only doctrine that can calm the conscience, and establish the soul in peace and hope. All false religions are accompanied with scruples and jealousi…

We are not reformed in God's account, till the refining fire have purged away our dross, till we be refined as silver is refined, and tried as gold is tried. Lastly, in reference to a people not reformed, hear what the Prophet says (Jeremiah 6:28, 29, 30): They are brass and iro…

But surely the death of one out of many, is much more tolerable than of all in one. Hence it is noted in Scripture as the greatest of earthly sorrows (Jeremiah 6:26), O daughter of my people gird yourself with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes. Make mourning as for an only…

That is, I will spread the net of my judgements over them, and they shall be taken in the Net. 4. Covetousness. Jer 6. 12. I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the Land, for from the least of them, even to the greatest, every one is given to Covetousness. When men…

Soldiers and executioners they are turned the priests of God for to kill his sacrifice for this his feast. Hence in (Jeremiah 6:4), Prepare you war against her, it is in the original, Sanctify the War; and in another Scripture, those that were the executioners of God's wrath, we…

3. And how the Lord corrects, is worthy to be known. He corrects Jacob in measure (Jeremiah 6:28). Mercy wrapped about the rod, and a cup of gall and wormwood honeyed, and oiled with free love, and a piece of Christ's heart, and his stirred bowels mixed in with the cup, is a mer…

Christians (Acts 11:26). Some who have hardened their heart, are called men, but something more, reprobate (Jeremiah 6:28, 30). Seed of the Serpent (Genesis 3:15).

And because that may be more proper to corrupt teachers, Jeremiah speaks it of all the sons of nature, and those especially that had lived a while under the means, and were not thereby brought on to an estate of grace, those whom God had kindled some fire in their hearts, and wh…

The Canonical authority of the Epistle to the Hebrews having been by some called into question, we must in our entrance declare both what it is which we intend thereby, as also the clear interest of this Epistle therein; for this is the foundation of all those ensuing discourses…

This imitation of others, is to be limited with that necessary caution, in so far as the practice of others agrees with the first pattern, Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1). In a word, this direction shows there is no way, but the good old way to be asked for, and followed in the most…

How universally has this sin reigned in the City? So that it may almost be said of London, as it was of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:13), From the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness. Those who have been free from gluttony, drunkenness, adulter…

Many persons are thus given over; as incorrigible and hopeless (Revelation 22:11). "Let him that is filthy, be filthy still." Jeremiah 6:29: "Reprobate silver shall men call them, for the Lord has rejected them." Isaiah 6: "Go make the heart of this people fat, their ears dull,…

Isaiah 44:18, They cannot understand, no more than blind men. Jeremiah 6, Their ear is uncircumcised, they cannot hearken. The Lord grievously challenges the people, ver. 11, I am full of the anger of the Lord, and denounce wrath against this rebellious cannot; for not only is t…

No, he will not try; why, then he is willful: if his master should see him sweating and striving to carry it, it were something, then he will say he stuck at a cannot; but when he will not be at the pains to try, he sticks at a will not; pag. 10. God offers the good motions of p…

Those also speak against the Scriptures, who profanely jest with them, and that they may the more securely rebel against Scripture laws, make themselves and their idle companions merry with the Scripture language. The word of the Lord is to them a reproach, as the prophet compla…

See Isai. 1. 5. Hosea 4:14. Jeremiah 6:29, 30, Hebrews 6:8. THE POEM.

(3) We speak peace to ourselves, when we do it slightly. This the prophet complains of in some teachers (Jeremiah 6:14): They have healed the wound of the daughter of my people slightly. And it is so with some persons, they make the healing of their wounds a slight work, a look,…

But men must be gold and silver in the bottom, or else refining will do them no good. The prophet gives us the sad issue of wicked men's utmost attempts for mortification, by what means soever that God affords them (Jeremiah 6:29, 30): The bellows are burnt, and the lead is cons…

And certainly, as to the wicked, it is a very great temptation, judicially inflicted, disposed of to them by God's judgment, they are plagued by worldly felicity; and it is part of their curse, that they shall be written in the earth (Jeremiah 17:13). And suitable to this purpos…

All religions aim at this, Ut anima sit subjecta Deo, & peccata in se; no true peace without the Word, nor no true holiness. The first is proved (Jeremiah 6:16): "Thus says the Lord, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, a…

Because there are different ways propounded to man, therefore he must follow all, or take up one upon evidence. Not only in point of practice, as life and death is set before us (Deuteronomy 30:15), and the broad way and the narrow (Matthew 7:13-14); not only to counterwork the…

USE 2. If covetousness be the great hindrance from keeping God's testimonies, then let us examine ourselves, are we guilty of it? Doting upon the creature, and an inordinate affection to sensible things, is a natural, an hereditary disease, more general than we are aware of (Jer…

Principles must be fixed, before they can be improved, and we can feel their influence and power: but people will be making essays, and try this, and try that. God's grounds of comfort are immutably fixed; God will not change his gospel-laws for your sake: and therefore unless w…

3. With respect to the tendency and issues of things; and so it notes fore-consideration, or deliberation in order to choice. God bids his people stand upon the ways and see, and inquire after the old paths, which is the good way, and walk therein (Jeremiah 6:16). As travelers w…

1. Thoughts — they are liable to God's tribunal, which can be arraigned before no other bar, yet the Word does find them out. It does not only discover the evil of them (Hebrews 4:12): The word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to…

Wealth cannot allay a grieved mind, nor appease a wounded conscience. The Word directs us where we may find rest for our souls (Jeremiah 6:16): Go, ask for the good old way, and you shall find rest for your souls. We lose ourselves in a maze of uncertainties till we come to the…

On that account it is not to be wondered at, that God from heaven has testified his displeasure against the present generation. He has poured it out upon the children abroad, and on the assembly of young men together (Jeremiah 6:11). It is a sad word which is spoken in Isaiah 9:…

Here pity is unseasonable and greatest cruelty. When out of [illegible] we are afraid to put men to pain, we increase their pains and hasten their destruction (Jeremiah 6:14): "they have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly." The Apostle teaches another way…

God puts us sometimes under the black rod; but it is virga disciplinaris, a rod of discipline; Hear you the rod, and who has appointed it. God makes our adversity, our university: Affliction is a preacher; Blow the trumpet in Tekoah (Jeremiah 6:1). The trumpet was to preach to t…

See Isaiah 55:6, "Seek the Lord while he may be found"; intimating that he would not else be ever so, and Jeremiah 4:4, "Circumcise, &c. lest my fury, &c." When God says lest, it intimates that there is such a thing, for he does not fright them with bugbears; and a like expressi…

Meekness and zeal may stand together. In matters of religion a Christian must be clothed with the spirit of Elijah, and be full of the fury of the Lord (Jeremiah 6:11). Christ was meek (Matthew 11:29), yet zealous (John 2:14-15): The zeal of your house has eaten me up.

In a race there is the way or path to run in; so in Christianity there is the pathway in which we must run (Psalm 119:32): I will run the way of your commandments. This is a good old way (Jeremiah 6:16); it is as good as it is old. The way of sanctification and obedience is the…

While we are waiting, let us take heed of wavering. Go not a step out of God's way, though a lion be in the way, avoid not duty to meet with safety: keep God's highway, the good old way (Jeremiah 6:16), the way which is paved with holiness (Isaiah 35:8), and a highway shall be t…

The unjust knows no shame. It is a great shame not to be ashamed; the Lord sets it as a brand upon the Jews, (Jeremiah 6:15). Were they ashamed when they committed abomination; nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush .

He made as if he would do it, and let fall his hand again, as if he could not find in his heart to be so severe. 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…

Therefore beware of curiosity. The old way is the good way, let a man seek that and walk in it, and he shall find rest for his soul (Jeremiah 6:16). 6. Let a man beware of his company.

'Why should you be stricken any more? You will revolt more and more' (Isaiah 1:5). And to keep to our metaphor, consult Jeremiah 6:29: God had put that incorrigible people into the furnace of affliction, and kept them long in that fire; and what was the issue? The prophet says,…

And therefore, if they were fair, why would they not allow it in spiritual things? and much more in them, agreeably to the vastly greater importance, and more affecting nature of spiritual things, and the concern which true religion causes in men's minds for the good of others,…

The captivity continued just long enough, for that perverse generation to waste away and die in their captivity; at least those of them that were adult persons, when carried captive. The old generation, and heads of families, were exceeding obstinate, and would not hearken to th…

To the dung or garbage, the poison, sting, excrement, vomit of these filthy creatures; to a root of bitterness which defiles many (Hebrews 12:15); to thorns and briers, which bring forth no other fruits but [reconstructed: curses] (Hebrews 6:8). To the excrement of metals, dross…

Offerings and sacrifices in themselves were holy things, but yet to them says the Lord, to a revolting and disobedient people, they shall be as the bread of mourners, that is unclean (Hosea 9:4), and the Prophet elsewhere intimates the reason, I hate, I despise your feast days,…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, all the Priests, Levites, and Prophets of the Jewish church, who had the same promises which the Christian church has now under the New Testament (1 Corinthians 10:3-4; 2 Samuel 7:16; Isaiah 49:15-16); together with the High Priest…

Q. 2. Wherein did that hurt us their posterity? A. Divers ways; first, (a) in that we were all guilty of the same breach of covenant with Adam, being all in him; secondly, (b) our souls with his were deprived of that holiness, innocency, and righteousness wherein they were at fi…

Q. 2. Wherein did that hurt us their posterity? A. Divers ways; first, (a) in that we were all guilty of the same breach of covenant with Adam, being all in him; secondly, (b) our souls with his were deprived of that holiness, innocency, and righteousness wherein they were at fi…