all fleſh come to worſhip before me, ſaith the LORD. new-mnen, (IM 6 In the Goſpel-Church, there ſhal be as conſtant and ſettled a #4 from |Iij courſe of Worſhip ( though of another nature) as everwas in the /#%barh re \IMI Jewiſh Church: Chriſtians are not bound to keep the Jewiſh Sab- #5 /#b5a:h.\| baths or New-moons, Gals 4. 1o, 11. Col. 2.16. But New Teſtament £*c- 14: 16, "i Worſhip is often expreſſed by Old Teſtament Phraſes. The Jews | were only obliged ro appear Three times in a year at Jeruſslem, but ( faith the Prophet ) the Goſpel-Church ſhal Worſhip God from one Sabbath to anocher. 24 And they ſhall go forth c, and look upon the car- caſles of the men that have ſinned againſt me 4d: for their * worm ſhall not die, neither ſhall their fire be +
quenched e,and they ball be an abhorring unto all fleſh.
c Either the Gentiles, or the ſincerer part of the Jews ſhal go forth from their places, or from Jeruſalem, or, go out of their graves ar the laſt Day. 4 And look upon the vengeance I have taken upon theſe vile Idolaters and Formaliſts, for their ſarisfaQtion, Pſal. 58>10, they ſhal ſee none of them alive, bur they thal ſee their tart/ſs. e For the worms that feed on their lain carcaſſes ſhal not ſuddenly
Mark. 9. 44146;49:
outtill they be whelly conſumed : and after this Life, and at the Day of Judgement, they ſhal go into eternal Torments. See Mark 9. 44, 46, 48.. where they will feel a worm of Conſcience that ſhal
Annotations on JEREMIAH.
The ARGUMEN T.
T was the great Unhappineſs of this Prophet, to be # Phyſician to, but that could not ſave a dying State, their Diſeaſe Hill prevailing againſt rhe Remedy ; and indeed no wonder that all things were (o much out of Order, when the Book
| of the Law had been wanting above Sixty Years. He was called tobe a Teacher in his Youth, in the | Jofiah, being ſautiified ond ordained by God to his Prophetical Office from bis Mothers Womb, Chap. I. 5. in a very evil time, though rhe People afterward proved much worſe upon the Death of that good King, be ſetting bimſelf ag#inft the Torrem: of the Corruptions\of the Times, \was always oppoſed, and unkindly Treated by bis ungrateful Countrey-men, as alſo by falſe rieſts, Princes, and People, who encouraged all their Impieties and Unrighteouſneſs ; At length be
Threatned their Deffruttion and Caltivity by the Chaldeans, which be lived to ſee, but foretells their Return after [eventy He doth alſo, notwithſtanding bis dreadful Threatnings,
the Days of the Goſpel ;
rophets, and t
Yeers > All which actordingly came as : comfortable Premiſes of the Mefliah, an
Days of good
intermix. divers
he denounceth alſs heavy Fudgemmnts againſt the
Heathen Nations, thet bed affiitted God's People, beth ſuch as were near, and alſe more remote, as Fgypc, the Philiſtines; Moab, Edomites, Ammonites, Damafcus, Kedar, Hazor, Elam, but eſpecially Babylon ber-/elf, that s made (+ E--- great a Type of the Anti-Chriſtian Babylon i» tbe New Teſtament. Upon the Murder of Gedaliah, »:bom the Chal- BM deans bad made Gevernour of Judea, he was forcibly againſt his Will carried into Egypt, where ( after he had Propeſied : from firft to laft between Fourty and Fifty Years ) poobably he died ; ſome ſay be was ſtoned, |
Whatever elſe we hear mentioned of his Writings, they are either counterfeit as the Prophecies of Baruch, &c. or it | likely we have the Sumof them in this Book, though poſſivly ſome of bis Sermons might bave bad ſome Enlargement in that | Roll. which, by his Appointment, was Writtes by Baruch, Chap» 36. 2, &c, i | - 6 ]
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' The Pedigree, Time, and Calling of Jeremiah, confirmed againft his Ex- cuſes, 110. His Viſions of an Almond-Rod and Seething-Pot, ji 1——14. His heavy Meſſage againſt Judah, 15——16. God pro-
miſeth him his Aſſiſtance, 17 19+ 2 | He words 4 of Jeremiah the ſon of Hilkiah 6, of the prieſts that were in Anathoth in the land
of Benjamin <c.
4 i. e. Sermons, or Propheciess which he received from God | (as being his mouth to declare them unto the People ) and com-
priſed all in the Volume of this Book going under his Name, as the |
Matter and Subſtance of them. See on Ja. 2. I. b As this ſerves
et diſtinguiſh him from other Prieſts, ſo his being of 4nathoth ranks him among the common Prieſts ; not chat High Prieſt,mentioned ,
2 | Kings 22+ 8. under whoſe Progeny Jeremiah is not named, I Chron. 6.13. Who, it- is probable, would have been name, being one of, Jo much note, and who always lived at Fernſalem, not at Anathoth, which was a City three Miles from Feruſalem, lotred out of the Tribe of Benjamin for the Prieſts, Jeſb. 21. 18. OF an ordinary Teacher hayyas made a Prophet, not 1o the reſt, c 7. e, That part of
Canaan thatfell ro Benjamin's ſhare. |
'2 To whom the word of the LORD # came in the
days e of Joſiah the ſon of Amon f king of Judah, in the thirteenth year g of his reign, | 4 Either that Commiſſion from God that did Authorize him to his Prophetical Work, as it may probably be taken, John 10. 35+ was aQtually given unto'him Verſe 10. or, Command of God, as "tis uſed, 1 Kings 12. 24. Or rather, the Materials of which his Prophecies were to conſiſt, for the ſpace of 41 years ſucceſſively it: Judea, wvize from the 13 Year of Jeſia? to the 11th Year of Zedekiahy beſides the time that he propheſied in Egypts See Chap 43- and 44. as 1/a- 2.1 e i-e. During his Reign, and reformed ſtate of Religion. f Who corrupted again that Rejigion by thoſe Idolatries that his Father Mazaſſis had in the” latter part of his Reign ſo well Reformed by Rooting of them out, 2 Chron. 33. 21, 22. 23. & By which it ap- pears x Hh Jeremiah prophcſi:d the laſt 18 Years of Joah's Reign ; for he Reigned 31 Years, 2 Kings 22. 1. ee + b It came allo in the days of ; Jehoiakim, the ſon -of Joſiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah & the fon of Joſiah kirig of Judah, + Kings unto the carrying away of Jeruſalem. | captive m * in -.8. the fifth moneth ». h. 52.12. + Viz. The word of the Lord, as Perſe 2.