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<p class="tab-1">Such plain dealing as Jeremiah used in the foregoing chapter, one might easily foresee, if it did not convince and humble men, would provoke and exasperate them; and so it did; for here we find, I. Jeremiah persecuted by Pashur for preaching that sermon, <a class="bibleref" title="Jer.20.1,Jer.20.2" href="/passage/?search=Jer.20.1,Jer.20.2"><span class="bibleref" title="Jer.20.1">Jer. 20:1</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Jer.20.2">2</span></a>. II. Pashur threatened for so doing, and the word which Jeremiah had preached confirmed, <a class="bibleref" title="Jer.20.3-Jer.20.6" href="/passage/?search=Jer.20.3-Jer.20.6">Jer. 20:3-6</a>. III. Jeremiah complaining to God concerning it, and the other instances of hard measure that he had since he began to be a prophet, and the grievous temptations he had struggled with (<a class="bibleref" title="Jer.20.7-Jer.20.10" href="/passage/?search=Jer.20.7-Jer.20.10">Jer. 20:7-10</a>), encouraging himself in God, lodging his appeal with him, not doubting but that he shall yet praise him, by which it appears that he had much grace (<a class="bibleref" title="Jer.20.11-Jer.20.13" href="/passage/?search=Jer.20.11-Jer.20.13">Jer. 20:11-13</a>) and yet peevishly cursing the day of his birth (<a class="bibleref" title="Jer.20.14-Jer.20.18" href="/passage/?search=Jer.20.14-Jer.20.18">Jer. 20:14-18</a>), by which it appears that he had sad remainders of corruption in him too, and was a man subject to like passions as we are.</p>
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