Jeremiah 30:1
CONTENTS We have in this Chapter and the following, the Prophet comforting his people with comfortable words indeed. Both the Chapter s are full of gospel, and of gospel promises, from beginning to end.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS We have in this Chapter and the following, the Prophet comforting his people with comfortable words indeed. Both the Chapter s are full of gospel, and of gospel promises, from beginning to end.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! it is your mercy and mine, as well as the Church at large, that the Lord commanded his servant, not simply to preach these glorious things here delivered, but to commit them to writing. And every word is indeed most precious. And do not fail to observe, how the Lord speaks of them: my people... [ Continue Reading ]
I do not presume to decide, but I would humbly propose a subject of enquiry, and in answer to this question, whether a man doth travail with child, I would say, is not the miraculous conception and incarnation of the Lord Jesus referred to? None but Jesus travailed in birth for souls: and his sold a... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reader will not fail to remark, without being reminded of it, (for the language of this sweet passage will of itself suggest the thought) what a striking similarity there is in what is here said, to what the Prophet Isaiah delivered before on the same blessed subject, Isaiah 43:1, etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
I stay not to detain the Reader with any observations upon this blessed passage, though in itself it would invite some of the most delightful. But the gracious things here spoken of, both in a way of judgment and mercy, are so plain and so very obvious that they can need no comment. The Lord points... [ Continue Reading ]
I cannot forbear desiring the Reader to pause over this short, but most comprehensive passage, so full as it is of Christ, and pointing to him as it doth with a direction so truly blessed. God founds all that is said here in Covenant love, and traces all the blessings bestowed upon his people up to... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is an awful close to the Chapter after such unspeakable mercies as were just before delivered. But then let it be remembered, it is awful only to the enemies of our God and of his Christ. The terrors threatened are said to fall upon the head of the wicked.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! amidst very many beauties in this Chapter, let you and I fix our meditation, and pray that God the Holy Ghost will make it profitable to us both, in beholding Him, concerning whom God the Father here speaks of being the Governor from among his people. And while we regard the gra... [ Continue Reading ]