Sermons on Jeremiah's Lamentations

This rare, never-before-published volume powerfully expounds a neglected book of Scripture. David Dickson carefully applies Lamentations in a time not only of epidemic disease, international turmoil, economic devastation, and persecution but also of revival. There are clear parallels with our own time, particularly the unprecedented circumstances of upheaval in the nations of the world. Dickson also deals with church decline and argues that its afflictions should cause us great sorrow. Yet he also shows how Lamentations gives those with such heavy hearts words with which to sorrow in hope. This edition has been carefully produced from notes taken by a member of Dickson’s congregation.

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Endorsement

“Dickson’s revival preaching, careful commentaries, pastoral wisdom, and prophetic zeal for his national church earned him the praise of his generation. This magnificent collection of long-forgotten sermons on Lamentations now displays each of these rare qualities for the edification of a new generation. They once applied Jeremiah’s searching message to a congregation facing tumultuous times remarkably similar to our own: days of spiritual decline and government overreach in the church, days of plague and international upheaval. But today’s church doesn’t just need these published sermons from Dickson’s pulpit; it desperately needs preaching like Dickson’s in its pulpits. It is to be hoped that through them, Jeremiah’s timely call may awaken a slumbering church to repentance and a renewed commitment to gospel faithfulness in pulpit and pew.”
—David G. Whitla

Contents

Editor’s Preface
Introduction

Sermons on Jeremiah’s Lamentations

Chapter One

1. Sermon 1 on Lamentations 1:1
2. Sermon 2 on Lamentations 1:2–5
3. Sermon 3 on Lamentations 1:6–8
4. Sermon 4 on Lamentations 1:9–10
5. Sermon 5 on Lamentations 1:11–14
6. Sermon 6 on Lamentations 1:14–18
7. Sermon 7 on Lamentations 1:18–22

Chapter Two

8. Sermon 1 on Lamentations 2:1–4
9. Sermon 2 on Lamentations 2:4–11
10. Sermon 3 on Lamentations 2:11–14
11. Sermon 4 on Lamentations 2:15–22

Chapter Three

12. Sermon 1 on Lamentations 3:1–13
13. Sermon 2 on Lamentations 3:14–21
14. Sermon 3 on Lamentations 3:21–24
15. Sermon 4 on Lamentations 3:24–28
16. Sermon 5 on Lamentations 3:24–30
17. Sermon 6 on Lamentations 3:30–38
18. Sermon 7 on Lamentations 3:39–40
19. Sermon 8 on Lamentations 3:40–44
20. Sermon 9 on Lamentations 3:44–54
21. Sermon 10 on Lamentations 3:55–66

Chapter Four

22. Sermon 1 on Lamentations 4:1–4
23. Sermon 2 on Lamentations 4:5–11
24. Sermon 3 on Lamentations 4:12–20
25. Sermon 4 on Lamentations 4:20–22

Chapter Five

26. Sermon 1 on Lamentations 5:1–7
27. Sermon 2 on Lamentations 5:8–22

Indices