Jeremiah 45:1-3

We had an account of this Baruch in the thirty sixth Chapter (Jeremiah 36:1) of this same prophecy; and here, in a short, but instructive manner, his history is again brought forward. It appears, that though a follower of the Lord God of Israel, he had but weak faith. He lived in continual apprehension of danger, and from the surrounding calamities was full of fear, that evil would befall him. Reader! it is astonishing how much even good men suffer from imaginary fears; and what troubles the faithful bring upon themselves from not always living above these fears, by living upon faith in Christ. That is a sweet promise, which ought to be worn in the bosom of a child of God, for every occasion: Isaiah 26:3. And it was an old saying o f the primitive Christians, "he that lives by faith, will never die by fear.