15.4. unto * the Nations. * Gal. 1.15- , ;e, Womb, 1ſs- 46. 3. Having ſpoken before of the time of his x6. Call, Ycrſ? 4. he now ſpeaks of the manner of it. r z+e; Approved, | ul Heb. and appointed thee, as a fir Miniſter for this Work. Words of _> Knowledge among the Hebrews note AffeRion, as hath been former- ly noted. { Viz. Not with taving Grace,though tar necd not to be excluded, but accordingly I prepared and ordained thee for this publick Service; and thus with Paul, Gal. 1. 15. where toth are expreſſed. See the like uſe of the Word, Iſe. 13. 3- He ſpeaks thus to Jeremiah, not to the other Prophets, becauſe he ſtc-od in need of greater, and more dire& Encouragement tlian they, both in reſpe& of the Tenderneſs of his Ycars, and alſo of thoſe inſuperab'e Difh- culties, which in thoſe moſt degenerate and corrupt times he muſt unavoidably encounter with, which might cauſe kim to decline the Work Yeſ: 6: t Either with reference to place to other Nati- ons beſides the Jews, as appear Chap 43- and 46. 47. Oc. taking the Jews in among them, as Chap. 25.17,18. and ſo Unto may be ta» ken for Againſt, as itis often exprefled in thoſe places and elſewhere; or with reference to Time, to People of all times, who may be in- ſtru&ed by this Book, or whoſe Words are made uſe of, both by ſe- veral Prophets of the Old Teſtament, as Daniel, Ezekiel, Nehemiah, &c. and by our Saviour in the New, by Matthew, Chap. 2. 17, 18. By Paul, 2 Cor. 6- 18. And by Sr. John, Rev. 2. 23. z bo 6 Then ſaid I, Ah, x * Lord GOD, Behold, I can- b Exod. 6. not ſpeak ”: for I am a child z. T2 x An introductory Interjeion making way for his Excuſe in a way of Grief and Complaint, endeavouring with all Reverence to clear himſelf of undertaking ſuck a work raſhly, it being properly the Sigh of one that hath roo great a weight upon his ſhoulders. 9 Not dumb as Zachary, Luke 1. 20, 22. nor ſtammering as Moſes, Exod. 4. 10, 14. but not with that becoming Gravity and command-
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o This and the boiling Cauldron, Perſe 12. i o the ſame time, and in the fame Viſien, to oth he T—_— nt onde to his Work. ? Viz, That had Leaves, and poſſibly Bloſemns on it like Aaron's, Numb. t7. 8. for without Leaves ar leaſt, 'tis oflibſ: he had not ſo readily gueſſed of what kind it had been. his is : Tree that bloſoms early, and ſpeedily, and hence hath its Name == Hebrew Scakeds, fignifying watchful, forward, nimble, or 925 a and fo it may point at either God's Readineſs to ſinite Vole " which is deſcribed elſewhere by Summer-Fruit, Amos 8.1,2. or I} ; raels Ripeneſs to be ſmitten, as we have the like Ezek. 7 ba nj A both ; this Rod being like a portentous Comer, ſhewing to dig -the Miſexies that were at. hand, as the Death of Johah which ſoo followed this Viſion, 2 Kings, 23. 29. and the Taxing them b Pha. raoh Necho, 2 Kings 23.35+« and preſently after the breakin ny of the Chaldees, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonces, 2 Kings 244 2. 6. F then the Babylonian Captivity. 2! Kivgs 24. 10, which hapened in the $:h Year of Jelviakim, 2 Kings 24. 12. when Nebuchadnezaar taok him with others, -and carried them away abour 23 Years from hence : _ about the 40h Year Jeruſalem was taken, and the Temple
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