Homilist Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns… I. THE FORCE OF HUMAN FREEDOM. Mightiest rivers cannot break from their source, nor greatest planets from their centre, but man can from centre and fountain of his being. 1. This freedom is a matter of personal consciousness. 2. It invests human existence with transcendent importance. II. THE ENORMITY OF HUMAN WICKEDNESS. 1. Ingratitude. 2. Injustice. 3. Impiety. III. THE EGREGIOUSNESS OF HUMAN FOLLY. 1. In withdrawing from the satisfying to toil for the unsatisfying. 2. In withdrawing from the abundant to tell for the scanty (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. |
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