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Jer_15:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
Ver. 19. Therefore, thus saith the Lord.] Or, Notwithstanding, man’s perverseness breaketh not off the course of God’s goodness.
If thou return.] If thou cast out this devil of discontent, and (accounting distrust worse than distress) apply thyself cheerfully and constantly to the work of the ministry, I will continue and confirm thee in thine office, notwithstanding thy present frailties and failings. {a} So our Saviour, presently upon their repentance for their shameful forsaking him at his apprehension, restored his disciples to their apostolic function. {Joh_20:21-23}
And if thou take forth the precious from the vile,] i.e., The gracious from the vicious, preaching comfort to those and terror to these; not giving, as he in the fable did, straw to the dog and a bone to the ass, but to every one his proper portion, without fear or flattery. {b}
Thou shall be as my mouth.] Speaking as a prophet of mine, and as I myself would do, if in thy place.
Let them return to thee,] i.e., Conform to thee, but do not thou chime in with them, as the false prophets do.
{a} Hic vides non praescribi gratiae Dei menses et annos.
{b} Probe vir, hae nihil ad te, dixit Zwinglius cum in vitia acriter inveheretur.