; will Igive Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, : and the reſidue of Jeruſalem that remain in this land, — , and * them that dwell in the land of Egypt 9.
q Whirher it is probable many of the Jews had fl:d, upon the coming or noiſe of the coming of the King of Babylon, as they had done before, 1/a. 30. 2- and 31. 1.
+ Heb. fr 9 And I wijl deliver them 7 ro * be removed into removing all the kingdoms of the earth, for their hurt, to be a re- or Vexati- proach, and a proverb, a taunt, and a curſe in all
* D places whither I thall drive chem 7. 23 _— r The Lord by his. Propher expreſſeth thoſe tremendous Judg- ' 5 ments which he had d. ſigned to bring upon this wicked Prince 3 Kin and People in the words of Moſes the Man of God, as well becauſe 2 S* the Jews had a great Reverence ' pretend=dliy at leaſt ) for Moſes, Ly," how little ſever they had for Jeremiah : as to let them fee, thar 5. 20. What the Lord here threatned, and ſudd<oly would bring to Chap. 15. paſs, was but a juſt accompliſhment of what he before had tbrears 4 P- ” ned in his Law, by which they oughr to have taken warning. The
ſum is, he would make them a common Scoff, and By-word, that their Miſery ſhould be a common Proverb, and when Men woulJd Curſe one atother, they ſhould wiſh chem like Zedekiah and the Jews. 10 And 1 will lend the ſword, the famine, and the peſtilence amongſt them, till they be conſumed from off the land. that I gave unto them and to their fathers/. { Many of them ſhall not live to b- carried into Captivity, but ſhall die miſerably in their own Land, if nor by the Enemies Sword, yet by the Famine and the _Peſtilence, which two things ordinarily at- tend Jong Sieges. By one of theſe three ſore Judgments of God chey ſhall be conſumed out of the Land, and ſhall nor hold it by the Title of God s gift of it to ther Fathers. No gifts of God, except thoſe of ſpecial Grace, are perpetuities ; but either given, Quame aiu bene ſe geſſirint, ſo long as Men behave themſelves well in the uſe cf them ; or, Durante bene=placite, during God s good Will and
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Their Diſubedience to the Prophets reproved, 1,—7. The ſeventy Tears of Captivity foreteld, 8,—11. and after that the Deſtrution of Babylon, 12,,——14. By # Cup of Wine is foreſhewen the De- Fruction of all Nations, 15, 33- The howling of the Shepherds 34» z8.
THE word that came to Jeremiah the Prophet con- cerning, all the people of Judah, in the fourth, year of Jehojakim the ſon of Joſiah king of Judah &, that was the firſt year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Ba-
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a The fourth Year of Jehojakim, was ſeven Years and odd Months before Jeconiah or Jehojakin his Son was carried into Captivity, as appears from 2 Kings 21. 36. and Chap. 24. 8, i< and 18 Years before the taking of the City, 'and rhe :nore general Captivity ; which arguerh that this Propnecy is miſplaced, ..nd ſet after the former, whereas in order, of tim? ir was 16 57 15 Years before it. b This is ſaid to be rhe firſt Year of Nevuchadnezzar ( caiied by Pro- tomy, Nabipsllaſſar. )- Tr is ſaid, Dan. 1+ 1. that t iis Nebuchadrezzar Came up un the third Year of Jehojekim 3 to which isanſwered. Thar
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the firſt Year of Neburhadneen as Reign muſt Þ2 underfiocd of his abſolute Reign, which concurred partly with the third, partly with the fourth Year of Jevojakim; they {ay hz was before a ſharer in tke Kingly Goverament with his Father, but this was the firſt Year, thar he had the Name of King intirely given unto kim. |
2 The which Jeremiah the prophet ſpake to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jeruſa- lem, faying c, |
c That is the word concerned them all, and he ſpake ir to ſo many of them, as he met with in any publick aſſembly at Hieru/a- lem, or elſewhere.
3 From the thirteenth hear of Joſiah the ſon of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that js the three and twentieth year, d the word of the LORD | hath come unto me, and I have ſpoken unto you riſing. © . WIE early, and ſpzaking * but ye have not hearkned e. * Chap. |} MORN
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Years ſaith the Prophet I have been a Preacher to you, and I have not been negligent of my Work, but like Men that get up early in | the Morning to diſpatch their buſineſs, ſo have I been in che diſs _ charge of my Propherical Office. : | 4 And the LORD hath ſent unto you all his ſervants [0717 the prophets, * riſing early, and ſending them, but ye * Chaps Bu | have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear f.. 7: 3- 25 f Noram I the only Prophet whom the Lord hath ſenc you, and & 29* 19 whom you have negle&ed and deſpiſed, God hath ſent you many FLINT more, and you have deſpiſed as many as he hath ſent, rhough the Lord hath made it his buſineſs to ſend you one after another from time to time. This contempt of the Lord's Meſſengers is made the proximate cauſe of God's Wrath coming upon this people, till there was no remedy, 2 Chron. 36. 16, | r- 5 They faid, * Turn ye again now every one, from * 2 Kings his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and '7- 23- :\WR dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you Glap, 1h pHOUWAE and to your fathers, for ever andeverg. © . - : jc - 351MM g The ſubſtance both of their, and my Sermons hath been to Jonah 3« {lil perſwade you to leave off thoſe ſinful courſes wherein you have $. Willt.1 lived, and which you might have amend:d by vertue of that com- © Fil mon Grace which I did nordeny you. We have not differed in our Do&rine, to the praftice of which you have alſo been incouraged both by them and me with an aſſurance from God that if you did
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