Jeremiah 40

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XL.—Heathene sometimes honour God and his ministers more than many professors. It will at last appear that God is faithful and sin ruinous. And all loss sustained for God will be made up in the end. If his servants have hardships when sinners have liberty, they will obtain liberty when sinners shall be in misery. What honour God puts on the son of Jeremiah’s late protector! [chap. xxvi. 24.] But short glimmerings of prosperity often introduce fearful strokes of adversity. It is only the deputies and servants of heaven’s great Monarch who are secured in complete and lasting protection. O what baseness and our charity can human minds contrive and perpetrate! Great men have need to be cautious of their own preservation, as well as charitable concerning their neighbours. But of little worth are earthly honours, which but tempt miscreants to murder us