1 * Pfal. ; oepoger if | 106. 46, have ra p,and cauſe you co returnto your | 19 © Tye LORD hach ſaid concerning you, © ye : | remnant of Judah | 7 : f 2 Weare beholden to God for all the pity, and compaſſion which | £4; that Jt y + j - Je Fat ipepes Egy Pt: know ee we meet with from Men, God inclineth their Hearts, tho' we re- , 4 Pan MONINed youtiys day J- 22 f Heb. ceive the kindneſs from their hands, q The mercy which God here 12 Wh Prophet-knowing how much it concerned this Pegs teſtified a- promiſcrh theſe Men, is that the King of Babylon ſhould give them | P/©.30 Tien unto him, andro believe and obey whar hs ſaid,repears gainſ? you a liberty to go every one of them to their own Inheritances, for at Ry h | Lord, _ ich he had ſaid be fore, aſſurin them that preſent they were baniſhed by their own fear,from their own Houſes, rm _— wy ER him ro ſay this ro them. Crinicks nor chough not from their own Country. : ng roeciaey bet Ic Wi. -— ag #amoniſh, in this form, 6gnifiech 13 But if ye ſay, we will not dwell in this land,nei- 46" Boe | 'e diflerble 43cm > ſigh Of ther obey the voice of the LORD your God r ; hs LORD our G F C. Carts z,when ye ſent [| Or, hove 7 Our Tr1nflation a little darkens the ſenſe, tranſlating the Hed. your w0d, iaying,. Pray for us -uns ed deceir Particle N72 n:ither, which ſignifies no more than nor, or by no || ©© the LOR D our God, and according toall that the ail, ny aneans, Numb. 14. 16. 1am. 2. 2. and 20. 26, Ho. 13.4. and it is | LORD our God ſhall fay, fo declare unto us, and we __ | certain wk bur one thing ”m—_ of, for the thing wherein they | will do it 4. | | diſobeyed the Voice of the Lord, was not continuing in their own s Or ws 4 e's ES SMILE = ; Ex 5 you have uſed deceit, either towards God, dealing falſl Land, but going into the Land of Egypt HE him, calling him tobe a witneſs to your ſincerity in ers n=. Saw ; 14 Saying, No, but we will go into the land of E- ir.tended any lincerity in ; or toward me, ſending me toenquire of ; gy pt, where we ſhall ſee no war, nor hear the ſound | God for you, and promiſing to do according to what I ſhould Ie of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread, and there veal to you from God as his Will, when as you hever intended ir; will we dwell [. or towards your own Souls, as every ſinner doth but deceive kis . : - + .. | own Soul. You mad: a pretence of what was not in your heaft$ _ f The ſence of the words is obvious,they thought that theirLife- | , When you ſent me to pray God's direCion for you, and made me in the Land of Judah, would be ar beſt an aneaſfie Life, where they | fuch a firm promiſe ro do whatſoever I ſhould 5 thin a __ po Jhouid be continually ears the noiſe - War, and tho'they | God as his Will in this caſe ogg" could not fear the want of Bread in a Land that flowed with Milk and ES ab 4. : + Honey, yet they alſo conſidered, that Egypt was a very fruuful 21 And ow I have this day declared it to you 6, But Coun ry, by the overflowing of N.lus, and the proſpeSt of this made ye have not obeyed the VOICE of the LORD your God, them quit that uſual fondneſs which People have of their Native | NOF any thing for the which he hath ſent me unto Country. From whence appears that their great fin was wnbelief, | yOu c. they would not take the Promiſe of God for a ſecurity tothem for a b I have been faithful to you, I went according to your defire to quict and peaccable a>ode injudah,but would fancynoiſes of Drums, | enquire of God for you, I had his Will revealed to me in your caſe and Trumpets, and fear where no fear was ; the P ropher ſaw,they | and now I have as faithfully rold you what it is. c But ye have not Fe vere refolved, into Egypt they would go, to live a more certain | þzyz4, How did Jeremiah know this, for they had nor yet deelared ealic Life ( as they fanſicd ) he therefore tells them, rbat it after | their Minds to him?He had either learned it from their Ditcourſes their ſending him to God to inquire tor them,and promiſing a com- | quring the ten Days which God had made him to wait for the Re- pliance with his Will, and hearing now wiat that will was, this | yelation, or he had learned it from tome conremptuous Behaviour were their reſolution, he had another word from God to them. of them, when he delivered ir, or ( which is moſt probable )} God 15 ( And now therefore hear the word of the Lord,ye | had aforchand told ir to him. | remnant of Judah, Thus faich the LORD of hoſts, the 22 Now therefore know certainly, that ye ſhall die * Deur God of lirael, if ye * wholly ſer your facesto enter in- | by the ſword, by the famine, and by the pettilence, 17. 16. fo Egypt, andgoto ſojourn there z. ) in the place whither ye deſire || to go, and to fo- FEI # This Verſe is wholly prefatory to what followeth. If, Caith journ d. | {| Or, t9 29 God, all your mind be upon Egyps, and you be reſolved thither you. © 4 The Prophet aſcertaineth that doom unto them, which Yer.14, #9 Jojurn.
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15, *6. he had threatned them with, in caſe they were reſolved to go into Egypt ; we muſt expeCtt nothing buc utmoit diſappointments u= pon actions done in diſobedience to rhe revealed Will of God : You think to avoid Dearth by going thither fora little time to ſojourn, bur you ſhall die there, and that by thoſe very D.aths which by going
cleave af- cloſe afrer you there in Egypt, and there ye hall | (1;cher you ſeck roavoid. wk an CH AP. XL.
4 In the general the Prophet threatneth them, that in Ezype they | Tyhanan and the Commanders diſcredit Jeremia'hs Prophecy, 1t——3, ſhould meet with rr hey y ſame wh ils,the _ betray; _ __ and with the People, carry him and Raruch into Egypr, 4 7. He flce out of their own Countrey, tne Sword ana Famine. 'l he Swor belyeth b Type, the Congue: Eg y br - the Batrotoms of Mebuchadnezzar, who after this fully conquered Egypt ; and a Fa- Se J 4. e Conqueſt of Egype by the Baby ON. mine through want of Bread; for although Egyps was a fruitful N D it came to paſs that when Jeremiah had Country, yet we know there was a Famine there, againſt which A ad Salk ki x60 all the nooute alt eb