Jeremiah 7:34

REFLECTIONS

I PASS by every other consideration in this Chapter (though there are many which would be highly profitable to regard) to attend to one, yet more eminently striking, suggested in meeting that wonderful word, Shiloh, which I never meet with in the holy volume, without having my whole soul led to the contemplation of Him from whom it is derived. Yea! blessed Jesus! when I consider thee as the Shiloh, the Deliverer, the Saviour of thy people; thou art increasingly dear, and increasingly precious, to be beheld, and in these seasons more especially, when thy immense value becomes more striking, from the view of profligacy and corruption all around. And though places, or persons, derive no sanctity, unless from thee, yet the Shiloh will be forever the blessedness of his redeemed, and their portion forever.

While I meet with this glorious and distinguishing name, Shiloh, but once in the whole book of God, when spoken of a Person, and that Person Christ, and this in the prophetical language of the dying patriarch Jacob: yet when found elsewhere, and connected with it, the recollection of Him in his glorious character, as the Shiloh; surely it makes the heart of the believer glad, and fills the soul with a joy unspeakable and full of glory. Let me never hear of Shiloh, or read of Shiloh without holy joy. Jesus will be the Shiloh, to gather all his redeemed unto himself, that where he is, there they shall be also. And what though Tophet is ordained of old, and his believers must pass through a valley of humiliation, more than that of the son of Hinnom: yet Jesus will be with them. Shiloh will bring them through, and bring them out; and bring them in, to his everlasting kingdom. Hail thou glorious Shiloh! to thee, shall the gathering of the people be!