Jeremiah 34:22

REFLECTIONS

WE cannot close this Chapter without first stopping to admire God's patience and man's unworthiness. Though judgment was at the door, and everyone seemed to be tremblingly alive at what would follow, yet sin is not lessened. Gracious God! what but sovereign grace can soften the human heart!

Precious Lord Jesus! thou wert indeed the servant, who would not go out free. For the love that thou didst bear thy Father, and the love thou didst bear thy wife the Church, and the children which the Father had given thee; thy ear was indeed bored, and thou didst give thy back to the smiters, and thy cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. Thou didst not hide thy face from shame and spitting. Oh! for grace to imitate thy blessed example, and in all the circumstances of life, to show mercy in having obtained mercy.