THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT.
SERMON AT WESTMINSTER.
BY THOMAS COLEMAN.
"For who is this, that engaged his heart to approach unto Me,
saith the Lord?"—Jerem. xxx. 21.
Two things in this clause cause some obscurity: First, The uncertainty of the subject. Second, The ambiguity of one phrase.
1. The uncertainty of the subject, or person of whom the prophet speaks here: whether of Christ, by way of prophecy, or of some particular person, by way of story, or indefinitely of every one, by way of duty.
2. The ambiguity of that phrase, engaged; which, according to the variety of its signification, is or may be variously rendered. He adorned His heart; He applied His heart; He directed His heart; He engaged His heart.
Hereupon the sense becomes various.
1. Who is he, viz. Christ, hath appointed his heart? Can there be found a parallel to Christ in the world, that hath so given himself up to God? made Him and His ways his meat and drink, yea more than his ordinary food?
2. Who hath fitted and adorned his heart? Is there any that can adorn and prepare himself to approach unto God, without God?