. Joſeph provided, beſides that ſcarcity of Viftuals commonly follow- made an cnd Or Ipeaking te PCOPIC All The eth great Armies. Thoſe who ſhun dangers or thinkto thun them | words of the L O R D their God a, for which the by acts of Diſobedience to God, ordinarily are ſuffered by God to | LO R D their God had ſent him to them ever all thels rake ſuch courſes as they fall into the ſame or worſe dangers than | yo.qc what they labour ro avoid. | | i The Hebrew word, which we tran{late words. ;fierh alſo chi
4 + : . ; { .fignifieth alſo things. f Heb. 6 *7 1So ſhallic be with all the men that ſer their faces The Prophet is very <xatt in lctting us kaow that he had from fs
ſral al;he to gO into Egypt to ſojourn there, they (hall die by the
Lord what he dclivercd to them, he therefore rwice repeats it, #-e
men be. {word, by the famine, and by the peſtilence,and *none | words of the Lord n_ —_ and for _ the Lord had _ _ - mY See 5 . . ; not thar the Prophetsalways limited themielves to thoſe 1yllabic
Chap. 44. of them ſhall remain, or elcape from the evil, chat] words they had revealed ro; them, bur ro the matter only of the 14. 28. Will bringupon them . 'Revelation ; which every Miniſter of the Goſpel is ſtill bound ro
Thoſe words that ſet their facesto go may reaſonably be interpre- ted as a limiration of the univerſal Particle a#; tor as eventually we can hardly conceive that every individual perton that went into Ez ypt did thus periſh, 1o it can hardly be thought that the juſt God ſhould order an equal puniſhment to thoſe who were the King-lea- d-rs in this deſign,and thoſe who were forced or over-rulcd by them,
or perphaps knew not how to live when the reſt were gone; bur, |
do, delivering to the people only whar they have received from the Lord, as 8 Cor. 11. 23. as to the matter and ſubſtance of what they deliver, though they clothe ir with words, and phraſes of their
wn. y . Then ſpake Azariah the ſon of Hoſhaiah, and Jo-
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© +14 $0. Johanan- the ſon of Kareah,and all the captains * of the forces, and all the people obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah e.
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noc.ſent. thee to ſay, Go not into Egypt to n there'c. - Abe > Of. Fohanan we- liave before heard, but not of Azariah, unleſs under the Name of Fezaniah, Chop. 42, 1: bur that 15 incertain, T heſe Mer are called provd Mes, erther becauſe'they were the grear men, or becauſe #hei# conceit of chemſebves led chem. into this fatal errour. Pride is nothing elſe bur. a los Mind ſwelling in anOpinion of himſelf, andabways takes its riſe from ſome higher ground the perſon poſ- ſcſſed' of ir'thinks he: ftands upon, and a very little hillock will ſerve= the turn; thoſe i who having nothing elſe of pretence will manga filk-Coat, ;or a-piece- of ſilver Lace.terve their! turn, One a's Spirit twellsupon account of his Deſcent, another upon ac- un ofhis Riches, a third upon the account of his Learning,Parts, ant Wir, a fourth upon” the account of his or her Beauty ; theſe Men ate called proud Men; poſſib'y upon account of their greatneſs, thiey were Captains, and the chief of the Jews now left; bur chiefly tor account of the good Opinion they. had of their own Reaſon ava Wit, by which they judged they knew better how to guide themſelves for their own ſecurity, than Jeremiah could reach them; whictPride or god Opinion Men have of themſclves, 1s a great root of Diſobedience; all Men fin either through Paſſion» or Pride, or both, cither to gratifie their ſenſirive apperite, or their rational ap- petite; as it is in Man ſince the Fail. © Becau'e it had been down righe Pgſictim, and a diſcalaiming of God, to have ſaid, They knew better what to do; than God cou.d tell them, tney only rell the Propher God had nor ſent him. As in theſe times Hypocrites, whoſe Lu*s will not allow them to-do the Will of God, rhink to ſecure+hemſelves by denying that to be the Will of God, and finding out other ſenies to put upon Scripture than are according ro truth. + | 3 But Baruch the ſon of Neriah ſerteth thee on a-
-*'& Baruch was but a Clerk or Secretary to Jeremiah, ſo not very
ropable to aver-rule the. Propher to a falſifying of his truſt, and a Being of his Countreymen into the hands of their Enemies; bur
-, fo fond are wicked Men of their Luſts, that they will ſay any thing ** in juſtification of them, . rather than deny themielves in them, ana
become obedient to the Will of God.
;*-e._ That is, they reſolved not to obey the Meſſage God had ſent them by Jeremiah.
2+» F/ But Johanan the ſon of Kareah,and all the captains
of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah that were
returned fromall. nations whicher they had been driven,
to dwell in the land of Judah f:
- F This reſolution they preſently put in-praftice. Though it 1s certain that Jeremiah and Baruch were not willing to go along with th:m, and probably that many of the People were nor willing, yet
theſe rebeilious Captains forced them all along with them,ſo as ma-
ny of them were now a kind of Priſoners to their own Countrey=
"Men,