Jeremiah 6

Jeremiah 6:1-6

Flee out of your cities, particularly Jerusalem, for the Chaldeans are at hand to besiege it. And, while the inhabitants are quite helpless, weak, and terrified, the enemies shall surround the city, and encourage one another, day and night, to give the assault, and destroy it

Jeremiah 6:9-11

By repeated murders and captivities, they shall desolate the country. But to what purpose shall I warn this careless, ignorant, and hardened generation, who detest every message that comes from God, and reckon reproofs slanderous reproaches? Therefore my mind is so full of prophetic threatenings, and of zeal to utter them, that I cannot any longer forbear, but I must denounce destruction to persons of all ages, ranks, and relations

Jeremiah 6:14

The priests and prophets, instead of faithful reproofs for sin, and denunciation of approaching judgments, do by their flattering and false predictions of peace, full the people into a fatal security. 16, 17. Inquire after, and walk in, the good old way of faith and holiness, prescribed in paradise, and walked in by your pious ancestors; and thus shall you find both temporal and eternal happiness.—Hearken to the voice of God’s ministers, charging you with your sins, and warning you of approaching judgments

Jeremiah 6:18

Let therefore the heathen nations around observe to what height of wickedness and ripeness for judgments they are arrived!

Jeremiah 6:27-30

I have therefore, under my own infallible protection, set up Jeremiah to observe and reprove their conduct. But they are obstinately wicked, abandoned to lying, slander, and every other base and abominable thing, corrupting themselves and one another. The instructions and admonitions of prophets, and the rebukes of providence, are of no avail to reform them. Therefore they must be utterly rejected of God and men, as useless and abominable

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. VI.—Sinners must often be alarmed before they will awaken. But fixed is the connection between national sins and national judgments. And the more luxurious and delicate people have lived, their calamity is the more insupportable. When an angry God is the leader, eager and alert to follow are the instruments of his wrath. But O, how he multiplies his kind, though severe, admonitions before he strikes the fatal blow that desolates the country! Yet no direction, no warning, no good pattern, will prevail with hardened despisers of Christ—the way, the truth, and the life. His judgments on such must therefore appear righteous to every rational beholder. Nor can any pretences to devotion or reformation avail while men continue abandoned to wickedness. Yea, dreadful and desperate must be the issue with those, upon whom not all the repeated pains of prophets and providences make any suitable impression