Lamentations 5

Use 1. This is matter of humiliation for our fall in Adam. In the state of innocency we were perfectly holy; our minds were crowned with knowledge, and our wills as a queen did sway the scepter of liberty: but now we may say as Lamentations 5:16, The crown is fallen from our hea…

The word signifies, properly to bear a weight or a burden, as a man bears it on his shoulders; bajulo, porto. And it is never used with respect to sin, but openly and plainly it signifies the undergoing of the punishment due to it; so it occurrs directly to our purpose (Lamentat…

We have fallen, thousands of persons into the grave by the plague, thousands of houses, as a great monument upon them, by the fire; and from where is it? we are fallen by our iniquities (Hosea 14:1). The crown is fallen from our heads; and what is the reason? because we have sin…

(1 Peter 2:23) Who when he was reviled, reviled not again: when he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. And Jeremiah who mourned so, for sin as he desired his head were waters, and his eyes a fountain of tears, that he might both be…

It is no exception of weight, that they also are sinners, continuing in their fathers' sins: for the worst of sinners must not be dealt unjustly withal; but they must be so if they are punished for their fathers' sins, and it be absolutely unlawful that any one should be punishe…

Many times [illegible] this life, sin is made to appear a hateful thing by bitter plagues and punishments which are the natural and woeful fruit of it. Lamentations 5:16: Woe to us that we have sinned. When Jerusalem fell into the merciless hands of bitter enemies, the [illegibl…

The Apostle Paul has his sin ever in his eye, he keeps it in fresh remembrance and consideration, never has occasion to mention anything of himself but still he strikes upon that string, to me the least of all saints and then the chief of all sinners, I was a persecutor and blas…

Who brings on faintness and terror upon the spirit, when the sound of a shaking leaf shall chase men (Leviticus 26:36), and when the Lord sends a trembling of heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind (Deuteronomy 28:65)? 16. We are called to be dead to honorable birth, blo…

It is no weighty objection that they also are sinners, continuing in their fathers' sins — for the worst of sinners must not be dealt with unjustly, but they must be if they are punished for their fathers' sins, and it be absolutely unlawful that anyone should be punished for th…

Where shall I go? Sometimes dares not, sometimes cannot, it has no heart to stir or come; it therefore looks up, and longs, and goes to the Lord to draw it, like poor Ephraim (Jeremiah 31:18), Oh turn me Lord, and then I shall be turned (Lamentations 5:21), and this is the lowes…