Such plain dealing as Jeremiah used in the foregoing chapter, one might easily foresee, if it did not convince and humble men, would provoke and exasperate them; and so it did; for here we find, I. Jeremiah persecuted by Pashur for preaching that sermon, Jer. 20:1–2. II.

Here is, I. Pashur’s unjust displeasure against Jeremiah, and the fruits of that displeasure, Jer. 20:1–2. This Pashur was a priest, and therefore, one would think, should have protected Jeremiah, who was of his own order, a priest too, and the more because he was a prophet of the Lord, whose…

Pashur’s doom was to be a terror to himself; Jeremiah, even now, in this hour of temptation, is far from being so; and yet it cannot be denied but that he is here, through the infirmity of the flesh, strangely agitated within himself. Good men are but men at the best.

What is the meaning of this? Does there proceed out of the same mouth blessing and cursing? Could he that said so cheerfully , Sing unto the Lord, praise you the Lord, say so passionately , Cursed be the day wherein I was born? How shall we reconcile these? What we have in these verses the prophet…