CHAPTER XXXIIL
An InTitation to Prayer ... mt 69
Forgiveness and Cleansing ... 70
The Church an Honour to God n. 71
Town and Country Life ... m< 71
■< The Branch of Bighteousnesa" .» 72
Nature's Aids to Faith ... ... 73
Bevelation of God's Purpose to him
who performs his Will ... ... 74
Perpetuation of tlw Kingly and
Ftiestly Stock ... ... ... 74
The Covenant of God permanent as
the Laws of Nature ... „, 75
The Reasonableness of Prayer ,m 76
The Divine Treatment of Sin .m 78
Frmts of Pardon ... ... m> 79
Paradise lost and regained m «• 79
The Prophet's Refrain ,„ m< 80
"The Lord our Bighteonsnesi" m* 81
Do the Prophets prophesy falsely ? ... 81
The Abundance of Peace and Truth 83 The Mournful Stillness of the Present,
and the Gladsome Voices of the
Future ... ... m« 83
Betnming Flooks... ... m. 84
The Bighteous Scion of David .m 84
Kittf and Priest in Perpetuity «• 85
CHAPTER XXXIV.
A King's Doom ... Bn}>erficial Repentano*
M. 87
Liberal Punishment ftir Illiberal dm-
duct ... .« ... ... 88
False Obedience ... ... ... 89
The Lord, the Prophet, and the King 90
The Woe of Weakness ... ... 80
Playing Fast and Loose with God ... 92
Slavery ... ... ... ... 92
A Bight Aet done in a Wrong Spirit 93
CHAPTER XXXY.
The Rechabites „. «• m 95
Filial Obedience ... ... m« 96
Temptation by Divine Command ... 97 The Filial Obedience of the Be-
chabites ... ... m« 97
The Blessing of the Rechabites m. 98
Fathers of Temperance ... „, 99 The Children put to Shame by the
Stranger ... ... ... 100
The Divine Long-SufFering worn out 100
Rewards of Filial Piety ... ... 101
The Power of a Father's Command ... 101 Renhabitea nnconsciously reproving
Israelites ... ... ... 102
God's Recognition of the Bechabita
Obedience — —, mt 102
CHAPTEB XXXVL
The Writing of the Roll ^ ^ 105
The Beading of the Roll ^ » 106
The Burning of the Boll ... m« 107
The Bewriting of the Roll ... 108
The Development of Revelation m. 109
Vicarious Ministry in Holy Things ... 110
Free Course of the Word of God m« 111
The Mystery of Inspiration m. Ill
" Jehoiakim's Penknife " ... n. Ill
" The Lord hid them " 112
The Word of God: wherein it can
and wherein it cannot be destroyed 113
Hearers of God's Word ... ... 113
The Written Word m* m. 114
"It may be" ... «. «. 115
The Indestmotible Word .m ... 116 The Lord's Hidden Ones ^ 117,120
Disaster not Defeat ... m. 117
God's Eye to Every Possibility .m 118
"Things New and Old" ... ^ 118
Burning the Word of the LoiA m« 119
INDEX.
CHAPTER XXXVIL
nttn TAoi
Prayer withont Obedience ... m. 121
Self-Deception ... ... m. 122
The Irresistible Will of God ... 123
Jeremiah imprisoned as a Traitor ... 121
Hopes that betray ... ... 124
God's Purpose independent of Means 125
The Servant of Ood accused of
Treason ... m. m. 125
" Give ns of your Oil" m« .m 125
Bnilding on the Sand m< m. 126
"Be not deceived" m m. 127
Falsely accused ... ,„ ... 127
Characteristics of Injustice „, 127
" Out of Weakness made Strong" ... 128 The Bougli Wind stayed in the Day
of the East Wind ... ... 128
A Bequest for Intercession ... 128
Israel's Delusion as to its Enemy ... 129 The Secret Question of a King and
the Bold Answer of a Prophet ... 130
CHAPTEE XXXYIIL
Jeremiah in the Pit ... ... IS2
The Apparent Misanthropy of Beve-
lation ... ... ... ... 133
"Old Cast Clouts and Old Botten
Bags" 133,137
The Fear of Bidioule ... ». 134
The Blessedness of Obedience ... 134 Foreshadowings and Analogies of ths
Cross ... ... ... ... 135
Ebed-Meleoh ; or, Unlooked-for Sym- pathy and Help ... ... 136
God's Terms of Salvation Hard ... 138 Counted an Enemy for Speaking the
Truth... ... ... ... 138
" Put not your Trust in Princes " ... 139
"Cast Down, but not Forsaken" „• 140
The Value of an Oath ... ... 140
The Path of Obedience the Path of
Safety... ... ... m. 141
Trying to serve Two MastenJ ,„ 141
A Question of Casuistry „. „. 141
Prophecy and Patriotism m. m. 142
A Friend in Need ... ... 143
Obeying the Voice of the Lord ... 144
The End of Zedekiah's Irresolution... 144
The Unkingly Position of a King ... 145
CHAPTEE XXXIX.
A Prophet befriended by • Heathen
King
147
Spared on the Ground of Faith ... 148 The Poor Better off than the Eich
148, 152, 15ii God'i Servant delivered from the
Judgment of Traasgressors ... 148
"So he dwelt among the People" „. 149
Faith's Reward ... .m (m 149
The Retribution of God m« ... 1<')0
Too Late ... m. ... 151
Churchwardens ... ... ... 153
" In that ye ministered to the Saints " 153
Siege and Savagery ... ... 154
The Safety of God's Prophet ... 154 Ebed-Meleob's Safety, and the Secret
of it M. ... ... M< 156
CHAPTER Xli.
Jeremiah's Eelease .m m. 157
The Choice of a Eesidence ... ... 158
The Duties of Adversity and their
Reward ... ... ... 159
The Murder of Gedaliah ; or. Noble
Credulity ... ... ... 159
The Blind seeing, the Seeing blind 160
« A Strait betwixt Two " 161
" That we may be Godly and quietly
governed" ... ... ... 161
Misplaced Charity ... ... 162
Jeremiah a Free Agent ... ». 163
The Difficulties of a Governor m. 163
Trusting a Traitor ... m 164
CHAPTEE XLL
The Assassination of Gedaliah Ma 165
The Slaughter of the Pilgrims ^ 166
Devils Incarnate ... ... m. 167
Sin hindered by Sin ... m. 167
The Devil a Bad Paymaster m. 168
Too near the Edge ... ... 169
A Great Crime and its Consequences 170
CHAPTEE XLIL
Taking Counsel with Ghxi .m n* 171
Divine Guidance ... ,„ m. 171
Implicit Obedience ... m. 172
The Answer to Prayer delayed ... 173 The Blessedness of Patient Endur>
anoe ... ... 173
Contradictory Eequirements ... 174
inquiring of God in Great Crises ... 175
Carnal Predispositions ,m m. 176
Dissembling in Prayer .m — 176
INDEX.
THEHB rAOB
Man's Utter Dependence upon God ... 177
Waiting on the Divine Ordinance ... 178 Divine Comforts for those in Doubt
and Fear ... ... ... 178
A Land to be avoided „, m. 179
Searching the Heart ... m. 179
OHAPTBE XLm.
Moral Causes of Unbelief ... The Credulity of Unbelief... Prophetic Stones ... m.
The Stones of Tahpanheg .m Hearts set to do Evil »•
Building on the Band
m. 181
« 181
^ 182
~. 183
... 184
... 181
The View of a Prophet's Complete
WorJs ... ... ... ... lo4
The Tisitation upon Egypt... n. 185
OHAPTEK XMV.
Warnings from the Past ... m. 186
Open BebuUion ... ... n. 187
Chastisement misinterpreted ... 1 88
The Limit of God's Forbearanott m. 189
Sinful YowB ... ... ... 1S9
The Bemnant of the Bemnant ... 190 The Condition of Hardened Sinners
Desperate ... ... ... 190
Credentials of Beligion ... ... 191
The Danger of eormptiag True Be- ligion ... ... ... ... 192
Jeremiah's Last Sermon ... ... 192
The End of Jeremiah ; or, GoiB|; Dowa
in Clouds ... ... ... 193
The Mind of Gad towards Sia and
Sinners ... ... ... 194
The Apparent Profitableness of Sin 196
Wretched Beasons for a Wrong Resolve 196
The Husband's Besponsibility ... 197
A Severe Lesson unlearned ... 197
The Doom of those making iom ot
Safety in Egypt ... ... 197
Supposed and Beal Beasons f«r Ca- lamity ... ... ... 198
Watching over Men for Evil m. 199
Human and Divine Confidence „, 199
OHAPTEB XLV. The Grief of One 8oiil,and its Conio-
lation ... ... ... ... 200
Divine DestmetiiM „. m. 201
Self-Seeking ... ... ^ 201
Baruch's Message ; oi; God's Osaslder-