CONTENTS
The opening of this Chapter is most blessed indeed, and carries with it evident tokens of grace. The other parts are somewhat like the preceding Chapter s, the Lord's expostulations with his people.
Every word in this verse is important and interesting, and I beg the Reader to ponder well the golden sayings contained in it. Some have thought, that what is here said is the immediate result of what the Lord had said in the last verse of the preceding chapter, and ought not to have been separated from it. And indeed I wish the Reader to look back to that verse, and read it with this. For from whence should such a resolution or desire as is here expressed come, but from the Lord's grace in the heart? How blessed is it to read this, and especially after what we have gone through in the preceding Chapter s of God's charge against his people, for their revolting from him! And observe, it is not the resolution of one person, and that one going to the Lord alone; but it seems to be a general invitation, Come, let us return unto the Lord. And I pray the Reader to observe with me, how pure the gospel is here set forth, in the reasons assigned for the sinner's return: because He who hath torn can only heal. The Holy Ghost that convinceth of sin, can be the only comforter, to convince of the all-sufficiency of Christ's righteousness, to justify and save. So said also the gospel Prophet. Isaiah 9:13; John 16:7-11. Precious Jesus! give thy people thus to know thee, and it will be indeed blessed. Deuteronomy 32:39.