þ I will fight againſt you (* as a Prince is ſaid to fight againſt a Nation, whoſe Captains fight againſt ir, though himſelt ftizzreth nor from his Royal Palace; yea more than ſo ) animating ard irfl n- cing the Babylonians and Chaldeans, whom I have ſent 10 fight »gainſt you, and diſcouraging and difpiriting your Armies. ; With tuch an hand and power asI manifeſted fir my ancient fart, Exed. 6, 6. God is here ſpoken of in a Diale& wh:ch maketh him more inrel- ligible to us. He tath no Hands, no Arms, neither is anger and fury in him conſidered as turbulent Paſſions, as they are in us bur as Men ſtrerch cur their Hands and Arms when they intend to give ſmart and terrible ſtroakes, and are edged to tuch Blows from t=eir Paffions and excefſive wrath, fo God is let our to us by expreſſions
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ave anfacebunt of the word: of the Lord which caine to Jeremiah in thefo Year of Jehoiakim, who was the ſecond fon of Fo , ſcab 1ade Kihg by Pheraoþ-Necho. purſuing his Viftory ( mentioned 2 1 3$2;22- ) upon the battle, in which Joſiah was killed, as we i thns ne people made Jehoahaz King, bur he reigned bur v iths, and' the Conqueror carrying him away, made £l:akim his Brother King, changing his Name to Jeho'akim, who reigned 13 Years, that js 7 after the word of the Lord mentioned, Chap. 25 Cartie to. Feremiab; afrer whom Jehojskim his Son reigned three Months and 16 Days: Zedekiah was his Uncle, the Son of Joſiah, he wigned: 11 Yeats. So that it js plain that Jeremioh's Prophecy (mentioned Chap: 25. ) was 7 Years and 3 Months before this. be- fide the number of Years that - $9 __ re} _ But ſome think don JerbeniAbi + 23. 24, 25. doth but MaK- a repetition to Zee TY pre —anon, $56. he had before prophelied. This MATige was (as-appeareth by the next Verſe ) when Nevuchadnezzar was come:up-to make War againſt Hieruſalen,.Jer. 39. 1. Jeremy was at liberty, when the werd of the Lord ar this rune came to him, ſo as - it-was ſome time before the Ciry was taken. The fata! Siege held
proper to Men, and in him ſignificative only of his juſt W: 1 tc. be revenged ſeverely upon a ſinful people. The ſence 15 no more, than chat an end was now come, and God was relolved no Icnger to © bear with ſuch a provoking people, bur to bring his utmoſt Wrath upon them, andto deal with them no longer according t«. his won- drous Works of Merey, but in wondrous Works of Juſtice, which in Men would look like the effets of Wrath and Fury.
6, Ard I will ſmite the inhabirams of this city, both man and beaſt : and they ſhall die of a great peſti-
lence &.
& Still God proclarmeth himſelf this Peoples Fnemy. Peftilences Ire but the uſual conſequents of long Sieges, through the ſcantneſs and unwholſomeneſs or Focd, bur G«d is the firſt couſe of ſuch ſore Judgments, though there be cther iecond cauſes. The Murrain cf Beaſts bears Proportion to the Peſtilerice amongſt Men, and the Beaſts are threatnedaswell asMen,no! becauſe of any ſin in them,vut - among Men are puniſhed in them, they teing part of their Sub- 4" ERTIRSY ance z and this is a pait of that Bondage of Corruption, from es —— Exngicks == Fad ken, 2 b-4 4g ) Wt which the Creature groaneth to be dcjivered, of that Vazity te was the Son of Immer, of the ſixteenth Courſe of the Prieſts : and of j <Þ they are ſubjeft, which maketh the irrational part of the Cre- =Þ Tore ragecd I] Temper 4 this was the'Son of Melchish, and fo | ation to be breughr in by the Apoſtle, Row.' 8. 20, 21 22. likeas a ( of the 6 *4 Re. Vid : Chien. 24. 94 1h. , Woman rrevaillingin pain, and deſiring the day of Judgment. © 2 Enquire I pray thee of the LORD for use, ( for, 7 And afrerwards /, {ſaith the LORD, 1 will deliver Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war againſt Zedekiah king of Judah, and his ſervants and the peo- us!) if fo. be that the LORD will deal with us accord- | P15, 2nd ſ«cb as arelefcin the city, from the peſtilence, ing to-all his wondrous works, that he may go up from the ſword, and from the famine, into the hand from os 4 | of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the e Zalekiah as he was none of the beſt, ſo he was non? of the | hand of their enemies, and into the hand of thoſe that
| ſeek their lif: »*, and he ſhall ſmire them with the
warſt of the Kings of Judah, he had ſom» convittions and im- Jeeſpons ( poſſibly from his Education ) not worn off, and having | edge of the ſword : he ſhall not ſpare them, neither 0 have pity, nor have mercy ».
me reverence of God, he ſends to the Prophet to enquire of the _ . 1 F 4 1 o 0
Lora: B:cauſe the King of Babyim was come up to make war againſt | | After that many of the People of this City, ſhall be deſtroyed,
ſome by the Enemy faulting, and skirmiſhing with them; others
them, Ie is true, the greateſt nay yo =_ _ = faithful
Miniſters; wiil ſometimes, in great ſtraits, chuſe ro ſend for them k ; |
ther thn chlo who in hi proſper pled, them, Hence | bh Famire chat ſb) be among them though a man of Vide h . End : als, bein Wi ; ers by r lence. we read of Sexl when he went to the Witch at Ender deſiring thar m Zedekish, who that eſcape theie three Judgments, together with his Coutrtiers, and the reſidue of the People, ſhall be delivered into
Samuet might be raiſed up ; but in eng tb I ſtory we read no ſuch eminent contempr of God, but a diſobedience to rhe Come the power of the King of Babylon, and into the power of ſuch as will notibe content with the plunder of their Houſes, bur thirft after
mands of God, proceeding rather _ T* ns Sg ruled by