} of which his Miniſters are the Stewards and Adminiftrators3 ſo the Devil hath his Sacraments, of which his prephers are the Admin- | ſtrators, God by his Prophet Jeremy had revealed his Will, as to the King of Babylon's ſucceſs againſt many Nations, and bringing them into his Servirude z as a Sacrament or Sign of this, he bad commanded Jeremiah to put on a Yoke with Bonds; Hananiah, the falſe Prophet, cometh in the Name of God, and declares the con- trary, that within two Years God would break the King of Baby= len,and free theNations in ſubje&ion to him3 «nd as a Sacrament or | S:gn to gain credit to this falſhood, he plucks off Feremah's Ycke; and bre! ks it, and expo2unds himſelf, that God ſhould fo break the King of Babylon", Yoke from the Neck of all Nations, and prerends he had a Commiſſion from God to ſay this. 0 Jeremiah not able to indure to hzar ſuch Lyes, gocth away in Teſtimony of his diflenc from him, and adhcrance to what he had ſaid. | Wh 12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jere- miah the propher after that Hananiah the propher had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, ſaying p. | | : þ> Sometime after chis, God taking notice cf the affront, put upon his Propher Jeremy, for faithfully diicharging the Meſlage with which he had eBtruſted him,revealcth his Mind unteJeremiah, that he might declare it, unto the Pcople, and particularly to this falſe prophet. _. --*: :... |
13 Go and tell Hananiah, ſaying, Thus ſaith the LORD, Thou haſt broken the yokes of wood, bur .thou ſhalt make for them yokes. of iron 4.
q Jeremiah ſeeing the impuderice of Hananieh, and that his fure ther diſcourſe with him would do no good, but it may be have cauſed more dinger to himfelf, propheſying what was more in- grateful to the People, than what the falie prophet propeſied, and poflibly deſirous further to know the Will of God, withdrew him« tcIlf. Soon afrer God ſends him beck to the People, and ro Hangs nah with this M-ſlage: That he by his falſe Prophecy Fad done the People no good, but much burr, further inc:nſ-d God agunſt them, and provock:d him to m ke their Judgment heavier, giving | them iron yokes, initead of thoſe of Wood.
14 For thus faith the LORD of hoſts, the God of Iſrael, * I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of ail theſe nations, that they _
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r Fur no withſtanding all he had ſaid, God was reſolved to ju- Nifie his word, and to bring them urder ſubjeQion to Nebuchad:s n:2247, and to give all they bad alſo into his power. is Then faid the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now Hananiah, The LORD hath not {ent thee but thou makeſt this people ro truſt in a lye [; ſ Jeremiah being a ſecond time corfirmed in tke truth of hisRe- velation, and having bkewiſe a ſpecia! Revelztion relating to this falſe Prophet, comes now and teils him his doom, wiz. That he ſhould die within a year, becauſe he had taught people to believe, and to hope fer, and to truſt to what was falſe, and they were never lik» :o ſee.
16 Tizerefore thus ſaith the LORD, Behold, I will caſt thee from off the face of the earth : this year ſhalt
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t And becauſe by this his D-Arince he had mide God a Lyar, 2
him. 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the ſame year, in the ſeventh month «. | u That is, within the compaſs of a year afrer that Jeremiah had ſpoken theſe words, within two months afrer that Jeremy had thus Propheſi-d, as app=areth from ver. r. ſo dangzrous a thing it is for Miniſters to teach People contrary to the revealed Will of God,
CH AP. XXIX.
Jeremiah's Letter to the Captives in Babylon, to be quitet their, x, 7 Not: to believe falſ: Prophets 5 nor expe# to return till after 70 Tears, 8, 14. The Deftrufion of 4p » who remained in Judah for their Diſobedience, 15,——19. The fearfull end of two Lying Prophets, 20, —23. Shemaiah's Letter againft Jeremiab, 24, 29. why readeth his Doom. Jo, 32,
Ow theſe are the words of the letter, that Jere-
miah the prophet ſent from Jeruſalem unto the reſidue of the eiders, which were carried away capti-
the peopic whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive fiom Jeruſalem to Babylon #4, | |
a3 There were two carryings into the captivity of Babylon, the larter about 11 or 12 Years after the former, the firſt was in rhe time of Jehctakin,of which we read in 2 Kirgs 24.14, When rheprinces, and all the mighty men of valor, evmm ten rhnuſand captives, and all the crafirmen and ſmiths were c tried away, as weread ther, amongſt whom were ſome Prieſts and P:ophets.
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* from the neck of all nations within the ſpace of two WR full years ». And the prophet Jeremiah went his way 0. Chap. n As God hath his Sacraments to confirm the truth of his Word, *7* 7* -
ves, and to the prieſts, and to the prophets, and toall
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ſerve Nebuchad- * D-vt-
. nezzar king of Babylon, and they ſhall ſerve him, anc Fs * bave given him the beaſts of the field aiſo 7. 27-64
thou die, becauſe thou haſt taught *|] rebellion againſt * Deus J. Jo Chap»
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cont: aditing his Wil! reveal-d by Jeremiah, anÞby it taught Peo- Heb pie to hold out againſt Nebuchsdnezzar, and not quietly to yield to Rewole.
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Chap. XXIX. 2 After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and 2 Kings || the eunuchs, che princes of Judah and Jeruſalem, and
:12, 97 the carpenters, and the ſmiths were..departed from Je- ; 4 r Cham z- | rufalem 6.
at 6 After his Captivity FY | t 3 By the hand of Elaſah the ſon of Shapan, and Ge- | mariah the fon of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Ju-
dah ſent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Ba- bylon, ſaying c FEE A irHyes' KA, of Judah having ſome occaſion to ſend two Meſſengers, named Elaſs and Gemaria to Babylon, whether to carry | his Trib.it Monzey, or upon what other errand is notexpreſled, Je- remiah knowing, that as there were ſome falſe Prophets at Feruſalem, | who fed People with hopes of a ſpeedy return, ſo there were ſome | with them in Babylon, who did" the like, '{ two of which he after- ; wards in this Chapter refle&erh upon ) writeth the following Let- | ter, and ſends it by theſe two Meflengers ro qui=tthe Peoples minds, |}
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Ifrael, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have cauſed to be carried away from Jerufalem to Ba-
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