THE Preacher's Complete Homiletical COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT (ON AN ORIGINAL PLAN). With Critical and Explanatory Notes, Endices, &c., &L BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. New York FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY LONDON AND TORONTO 1892 THE PREACHER'S COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH. CONTAINING :- EXEGESIS: Supplying Expository Notes to each Chapter on Chronology, HOMILETICS: Consisting of over Eight Hundred (mostly original) Outlines BY THE REV. W. H. JELLIE, AUTHOR OF CROWDS OF THE BIBLE," ETC. New York FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY LONDON & TORONTO PREFACE. MANY of the choicest hours of the past five years have been devoted to the production of this Homiletic Commentary on Jeremiah. Judging from the surprisingly few sermons or outlines on texts in Jeremiah with which our search through homiletic literature for aid in compiling this volume was rewarded, it would seem that this inspired book has been to most preachers an untraversed, or at best an unfrequented, path. Owing to this notable scarcity of material, the task of preparing this Commentary has been proportionately greater; for there has been but slight opportunity, in this respect, "to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand" (2 Cor. x. 16). Notwithstanding this paucity of resources, this volume will be found to contain, in brief or fuller form, about eight hundred and fifty outlines for sermons. And, that it may be understood to what extent this Commentary is a creation rather than a compilation of homilies on Jeremiah, it may be added, that of these eight hundred and fifty outlines, it has been our personal part of the labour to construct no fewer than four hundred and seventy homiletic plans upon texts in Jeremiah, which appear, so far as literature affords evidence, to have been hitherto left by preachers unused. Thus, in addition to nearly five hundred original outlines, this volume contains over three hundred which have either been condensed from printed scrmons by renowned preachers, or supplied by ministers whose aid was sought in order to bring variety into the " Commentary." The sources of help include the Rev. Andrew Fuller, Dr. Chalmers, James Sherman, C. H. Spurgeon, T. B. Power, M.A., W. Hay M. H. Aitken, Robert Hall, W. H. Murray M'Cheyne, Samuel Martin, J. Kennedy, M.A., D.D., Bishop Reginald Heber, Dean Alford, Dr. Jabez Burns, Charles Simeon, M.A., Dr. Guthrie, "A. K. H. B.," John Foster, Archbishop Tillotson, Payson, T. Gordon, B.D., Dr. South, Job Orton, D.D., Edward Dorr Griffin, D.D., Henry Ward Beecher, Stephen H. Tyng, De Witt Talmage, President Davies, Albert Barnes, S Baker, D.D., E. Jarman, W. Whale, S. Thodey, J. Farren, W. Forsyth, Matthew Henry, Hannam's "Pulpit Assistant," The Homilist," Brooks' "Plans," and Origen's "Homilies." Where no name is found at the foot of an outline, it indicates that the work is original. Reference to the Comments, which are interwoven with the outlines, will show that the most apt and helpful suggestions which English and foreign scholarship has afforded respecting the meaning of verses have been intro |