CONTENTS
We have in this Chapter a blessed and gracious word of comfort
succeeding the awful message, in the preceding Chapter. And what tends
to make this Chapter most eminently blessed to the Church is, the
glorious account given in it under the spirit of prophecy of the Lord
Jesus Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is blessed to observe, how from the unworthiness of man the Lord
takes occasion to magnify the riches of his grace. Not that our misery
is the cause of divine mercy: for his love was long before we had any
sense of our need of it, or even our being: but, though the love of
Jehovah from all eterni... [ Continue Reading ]
Here are two verses, which contain an epitome of the whole Bible;
Christ and his offices; Christ and his work; Christ and his character:
all that refers to his glorious Person and finished salvation, is
implied in what is here said. The passage opens with a behold! regard,
take notice, as a thing of... [ Continue Reading ]
In consequence of this great salvation, when the Lord Jesus is come,
and hath fully finished it, the former deliverance from Egypt, which
was but a type of it, shall then be done away, as the shadow is lost
in the substance. Both the deliverance of the Church from Egypt, and
the deliverance from Bab... [ Continue Reading ]
The Prophet is here representing the horrible state of false prophets,
and the awful termination of such conduct. A portion suited not only
to the days of Jeremiah but to all ages of the Church. Lord! give
grace to all concerned to attend to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them,
and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set
forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Prophets not
sent, not commissioned, and who utter lies among God's people; what
can be more awful. But t... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! while this Chapter in the awful close of it, holds forth most
powerful instructions concerning true and false teachers in the Church
of God; and which are in themselves enough to call forth the most
awakened attention to all that are concerned in the ministry of God's
word: let... [ Continue Reading ]