Jeremiah 41

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XLI.—By the most unexpected and unnatural means God can punish men, who have ripened themselves in wickedness. And a righteous God can make the malice, the baseness, the barbarity, of the most hardened monsters in iniquity to glorify himself and ruin his enemies. Misery, death, and damnation, often meet men when, where, and whence, they least expected. And not the laws of God or men, but covetousness, frequently makes sinners to abstain from crimes. The most unnatural criminals may for a time escape punishment from men. And groundless fear, rest or pretended, often leads men into ruinous guilt. 4