A whore's forehead!

(Thomas Brooks, "The Privy Key of Heaven" 1665)

"You have a whore's forehead, you refuse to be ashamed!" Jeremiah 3:3

"Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct?
 No! They have no shame at all! They do not even know how to blush!"
Jeremiah 6:15 

They had sinned away shame--instead of being ashamed of sin. Continuance in sin had quite banished all sense of sin, and all shame for sin--so that they would not allow nature to draw her veil of blushing before their great abominations. How applicable these scriptures are to the present time, I will leave the prudent reader to judge.

But what does the prophet do . . .
now that they were as bold in sin, and as shameless as so many harlots;
now that they were grown up to that height of sin and wickedness;
now that they were above all shame and blushing;
now that they were grown so proud, so hardened, so obstinate, so rebellious, so bent on self-destruction
--that no mercies could melt them or allure them, nor any threatenings or judgments could in any way stop them?

The prophet goes into a corner, he retires into the most secret places--and there he weeps bitterly; there he weeps as if he were resolved to drown himself in his own tears. "I will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears!" Jeremiah 13:17

In the times wherein we live, Hell seems to be broken loose, and men turned into incarnate devils! Soul-damning wickednesses walk up and down the streets with a whore's forehead, without the least check or restraint.

Ah, England, England! What pride, luxury, debauchery, lewdness, drunkenness, cruelties, injustice, oppressions, fornications, adulteries, falsehoods, hypocrisies, atheisms, horrid blasphemies, and hellish impieties--are now to be found rampant in the midst of you! Ah, England! England! How are . . .
  the Scriptures rejected,
  God derided, and
  wickedness tolerated!

And what is the voice of all these crying abominations--but every Christian to his closet--every Christian to his closet--and there weep, with weeping Jeremiah, bitterly--for all these great abominations whereby God is dishonored openly. Oh weep in secret for their sins--who openly boast in their sins, which should be their greatest shame. Oh blush in secret for those who are past all blushing for their sins; for who knows, but that the whole land may fare the better for the sakes of a few, who are mourners in secret!