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Expostulations with Israel. (b. c. 629.)
EXPOSTULATIONS WITH ISRAEL. (B. C. 629.) The prophet, further to evince the folly of their forsaking God, shows them what mischiefs they had already brought upon themselves by so doing; it had already cost them dear, fo…
Expostulations with Israel. (b. c. 629.)
EXPOSTULATIONS WITH ISRAEL. (B. C. 629.) In these verses the prophet goes on with his charge against this backsliding people. Observe here, I. The sin itself that he charges them with—idolatry, that great provocation wh…
Expostulations with Israel. (b. c. 629.)
EXPOSTULATIONS WITH ISRAEL. (B. C. 629.) The prophet here goes on in the same strain, aiming to bring a sinful people to repentance, that their destruction might be prevented. I. He avers the truth of the charge. It was…
The Wickedness of Israel. (b. c. 620.)
THE WICKEDNESS OF ISRAEL. (B. C. 620.) These verses some make to belong to the sermon in the foregoing chapter, and they open a door of hope to those who receive the conviction of the reproofs we had there; God wounds t…
Idolatries of Israel; The Treachery of Judah. (b. c. 620.)
IDOLATRIES OF ISRAEL; THE TREACHERY OF JUDAH. (B. C. 620.) The date of this sermon must be observed, in order to the right understanding of it; it was in the days of Josiah, who set on foot a blessed work of reformation…
Encouragements to Repentance. (b. c. 620.)
ENCOURAGEMENTS TO REPENTANCE. (B. C. 620.) Here is a great deal of gospel in these verses, both that which was always gospel, God's readiness to pardon sin and to receive and entertain returning repenting sinners, and t…
Israel Returning to God; Israel Encouraged in Their Return. (b. c. 620.)
ISRAEL RETURNING TO GOD; ISRAEL ENCOURAGED IN THEIR RETURN. (B. C. 620.) Here is, I. The charge God exhibits against Israel for their treacherous departures from him, Jeremiah 3:20. As an adulterous wife elopes from her…
Exhortation to Repentance. (b. c. 620.)
EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE. (B. C. 620.) When God called to backsliding Israel to return (Jeremiah 3:22) they immediately answered, Lord, we return; now God here takes notice of their answer, and, by way of reply to it,…
Punishment Predicted. (b. c. 620.)
PUNISHMENT PREDICTED. (B. C. 620.) The prophet here turns his speech, in God's name, to the men of the place where he lived. We have heard what words he proclaimed towards the north (Jeremiah 3:12), for the comfort of t…
Punishment Predicted. (b. c. 620.)
PUNISHMENT PREDICTED. (B. C. 620.) God's usual method is to warn before he wounds. In these verses, accordingly, God gives notice to the Jews of the general desolation that would shortly be brought upon them by a foreig…
Punishment Predicted. (b. c. 620.)
PUNISHMENT PREDICTED. (B. C. 620.) The prophet is here in an agony, and cries out like one upon the rack of pain with some acute distemper, or as a woman in travail. The expressions are very pathetic and moving, enough…
The Universal Corruption to the Age. (b. c. 608.)
THE UNIVERSAL CORRUPTION TO THE AGE. (B. C. 608.) Here is, I. A challenge to produce any one right honest man, or at least any considerable number of such, in Jerusalem, Jeremiah 5:1. Jerusalem had become like the old w…
Divine Judgments Threatened; Divine Judgments Vindicated. (b. c. 608.)
DIVINE JUDGMENTS THREATENED; DIVINE JUDGMENTS VINDICATED. (B. C. 608.) We may observe in these verses, as before, I. The sin of this people, upon which the commission signed against them is grounded. God disowns them an…
Expostulation with Israel. (b. c. 608.)
EXPOSTULATION WITH ISRAEL. (B. C. 608.) The prophet, having reproved them for sin and threatened the judgments of God against them, is here sent to them again upon another errand, which he must publish in Judah; the pur…
Expostulation with Israel. (b. c. 608.)
EXPOSTULATION WITH ISRAEL. (B. C. 608.) Here, I. The prophet shows them what mischief their sins had done them: They have turned away these things (Jeremiah 5:25), the former and the latter rain, which they used to have…
Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. (b. c. 608.)
JUDGMENTS THREATENED AGAINST ISRAEL; THE DOOM OF ISRAEL. (B. C. 608.) Here is I. Judgment threatened against Judah and Jerusalem. The city and the country were at this time secure and under no apprehension of danger; th…
The Universal Corruption of the Age. (b. c. 608.)
THE UNIVERSAL CORRUPTION OF THE AGE. (B. C. 608.) The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line. I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here thr…
Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. (b. c. 608.)
EQUITY OF DIVINE JUDGMENTS; PUNISHMENT PREDICTED. (B. C. 608.) Here, I. God appeals to all the neighbours, nay, to the whole world, concerning the equity of his proceedings against Judah and Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:18-19)…
A Call of Repentance. (b. c. 606.)
A CALL OF REPENTANCE. (B. C. 606.) These verses begin another sermon, which is continued in this and the two following chapters, much to the same effect with those before, to reason them to repentance. Observe, I. The o…
Punishment Predicted. (b. c. 606.)
PUNISHMENT PREDICTED. (B. C. 606.) God had shown them, in the foregoing verses, that the temple and the service of it, of which they boasted and in which they trusted, should not avail to prevent the judgment threatened…
Obedience Better than Sacrifice. (b. c. 606.)
OBEDIENCE BETTER THAN SACRIFICE. (B. C. 606.) God, having shown the people that the temple would not protect them while they polluted it with their wickedness, here shows them that their sacrifices would not atone for t…
The Desolation of Judah. (b. c. 606.)
THE DESOLATION OF JUDAH. (B. C. 606.) Here is, I. A loud call to weeping and mourning. Jerusalem, that had been a joyous city, the joy of the whole earth, must now take up a lamentation on high places (Jeremiah 7:29), t…
Indignities Threatened to the Dead. (b. c. 606.)
INDIGNITIES THREATENED TO THE DEAD. (B. C. 606.) These verses might fitly have been joined to the close of the foregoing chapter, as giving a further description of the dreadful desolation which the army of the Chaldean…
Full of Impenitent Sinners; Hardened Wickedness of Judah. (b. c. 606.)
FULL OF IMPENITENT SINNERS; HARDENED WICKEDNESS OF JUDAH. (B. C. 606.) The prophet here is instructed to set before this people the folly of their impenitence, which was it that brought this ruin upon them. They are her…