Jeremiah 19

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XIX.—By methods unnumbered the Lord tries to awaken ignorant, stupified, and self-hardened, sinners to repentance, that their ruin may be prevented, or at least appear wholly owing to themselves. And it is proper that rulers in church and state should be warned with peculiar faithfulness and solemnity: and warnings had need to be again and again repeated. Dreadful are the effects of sin upon nations and churches: and often those who have been noted for sinning are made no less noted for suffering; and all attempts to avoid God’s ruinous strokes prove fruitless, or worse