Jeremiah 28

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXVIII.—False teachers impudently dare to preach their other gospel, and speak lies in God’s name. But what is the chaff to the wheat? Not majesty of style, not the inculcating of faith or repentance, but flattering hints of prosperity in sin, mark their discourses. Alas, how strangely were the Jews besotted, who, contrary to manifold warnings, believed such impostors as flattered them to their ruin! But falsehood, advanced with solemnity and confidence, often gains regard. And many dare to affirm that to be God’s truth, which shortly will be found a lie, to their own damnation. But the faithful servants of God must not strive; and, if they are reviled, they must not revile again. God will, in his due time, vindicate their honour, and disgrace and punish their opposers. And none may expect heavier judgments than they who hinder the success of God’s word, and seek to prejudice men’s minds against the faithful ministers of it. At last every one who ran into sacred offices unment, or who preached his own inventions instead of the truths of Christ, shall reap the due reward of his wickedness. 2