...assist and protect Jeremiah, while pleading his cause in the midst of the most formidable opposition. " Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak...at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. For behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against...

...gracious promises are all conditional, and are so explained by God himself. He says to Jeremiah, " Thou, therefore, gird up thy loins, and arise, and...at their faces, lest I confound thee before them." And this awful threatening, God tells the corrupt priests in the days of Malachi, he had actually executed...

...they deliver in his name. He said to Jeremiah, whom he sent to instruct both rulers and subjects, " Gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them...at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against...

...forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. 17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak...command thee : be not dismayed at their faces, lest 1 confound thee before them. 18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron...

...discredit on the cause he had espoused ; but he remembered the passage he had read in the morning, ' Be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.' It was suggested to him to relate his experience, and under this impression he found the fear of man...

...will not make him bold, and plain, and faithful in his preaching, let him at least remember this : ' Be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them' (v. 17). "APPLICATION. " My brethren, these considerations induce me to present myself before you as...

...3. line 73. — Lest he in wrath confound me. Then said I, Ah, LORD GOD, behold I cannot speak, for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, say not I...I confound thee before them. —Jeremiah, chap. i. Page 7. line 175. — Taught wisdom to mankind.' But as for the mighty man he had the earth, and the...

...other,no less extraordinary, coincidences. In the first chapter of that Prophet (vv. 17, 19) we thus read; "Gird up thy loins, and arise and speak unto them all that 1 command thee; and behold! I have made thee this day a walled city. . . . And they shall fight against...

...heroism required. not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saitli the Lord. 17. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak...at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. For behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, an iron, pillar, and brazen walls against the...

...him, but that he recovered himself by remembering what God said to the prophet Jeremiah, chap. i. 17; 'Be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them ;' In prayer it might, perhaps, be truly said that he excelled himself. It was throughout an address...