Jeremiah 20:14

Jer. 20:14, etc. How great an evidence is to be gathered from this, and other like passages of the Old Testament, of a future state of reward to the saints. Jeremiah was a man of affliction in this life. It is evident that as long as he lived he met with opposition, hatred, and continual affliction, so that he was heartily weary of life and wished he had never been born. This affliction was followed with no remarkable alteration from affliction to posterity, as it was in Job; but while he lived, he lived to see nothing but those things that were most grievous to his heart, which made his being in this world far worse than no being. Now, if there be no future state, how is this consistent with the frequent declarations of God in the Old Testament, that those that fear Him are blessed and happy; and His promises, that it shall be well with them, that He will be their defense and exceeding great reward, etc., which the Old Testament is full of; and with what God said and promised to Jeremiah in particular, Jeremiah 1:8; Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 15:11; and also with the promises God makes by Jeremiah to the righteous, which he applies to him in this very context, Jeremiah 20:11-13?

Jer. 26:9