_ * "Voice in his Providences toward their Country dire&ly contrary . . - "to the true ſence of it. They concluded thattheir omiſſion of late gave Zedekiah king of J udah into the hand of Nebu-
to burn Incenſe to the Sun, Moon and Stars was the cauſe why chad nezzar king of Babylon his enemy that ſought his it was ſo ill with them : as if theſe were animate Beings, and the - life P. | ſupreme Being, whereas they were but Creatures. Or as it it were 0 Pharaoh was a Name common to all the Egyptian Kings, as may "the Will of the ſupreme Being to be adored and worthipped in be learned from Gen. 12. 15. and 41. 1. Exod. 1. 8. 81. butthey had ' them, or before Statutes and Images reprefented by them,whereas beſides that Name another peculiar to them. Whether this Hophra the Will of God was direftly contrary, - and as he in the ſecond was Yaphres or .4pries, is not much materia), nor is there any Cer- Commandment had forbidden any ſuch Worſhip, becauſe he was a tainty when this Prophecy was fulfilled. Whether Pharach Hephrs jealous God ; ſo he had for the breach of that Commandment by were ( as Herodvtus ſaith ) flain by Amefis, one of his SubjeQs who :their burning Incenſe to theſe Creatures, burned ” their Houſes rebelled againſt himand flew him ( as the aforementioned Author and Temple, and brought their Nation into that miſery into which tells us ) or Nebuchadnezzar who Jeſephus ſaith came about five Years - they were come : From whence may be obſerved how ill an Ar- after he had taken Jeruſalem,and over-ran Egypr,& flew this Pharaoch "gument for any Religious Worlhip Antiquity is, unleſs we by it Hophrs, whoſe overthrow wasa certain ſign of the Jews DeſtruQtion, mean what is moſt ancient ; as alſo, that Preſcription in that which it being not likejthar the King of Babylon ſhould ſpare theſe Jews is falſe, in the Worſhip of God juſtifieth none. Nor is it a good who had fledro this King of Egypr for ſhelter ; conſidering alſo concluſion that thoſe who lived neareſt to the primitive Inſtitution thar the Jews had ſlain Gedaligh his Deputy Governour in Judes. are moſt likely to have done beſt, as having the beſt meansto know p How God delivered Zeaekiah into the hand of the King of Baby- whatis truly Primitive. Idolatry wasas old as Laban, and the worſt Jon, we read Chap. g. Here now ends the Story of theſe Jews that | of Idolatry ( offering Children to Molech was older than the Levici-. had fled into Egypr. . cal Law, if not as old as Serug. In matters of Worſhip the Word C H A P. XLYV. of God is a ſufficient rule, we need not plead antiquity nor the Jeremiah inftru#erh ani! comforteth Baruch, 1,um=——= ,
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24 Moreover, Jeremiah ſaid to all the people, and Baruch the ſon of Neriah, * when he had written ,6, 3, 6
to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all theſe words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah a,in the |
Judah that are in the land of Egypt #. fourth year of Jehoiakim, the ſon of Joſiah king of Ju- |
d That is, all you Men and Women that belong to Juash, and dah, faying 6, | 1 are now come to inhabit in the Land of Zgypr. aThis Chapter ought to have been annexed to the 36 Chap. or
MN 25 Thus faith the LORD of hoſts, the God of Iſrael, immediately to have followed it, for the writing of J5remia}'s Pra.
, & . : hecies we read of there. b It was 18 Years before this time that er. 15. ſaying, * Ye and your wives have both ſpoken with = Prophetthus ſpake to Baruch _ the writing of thoſe Prophe=
your mouths, and fulfilled with your hands,ſay ing, We cies which as we read there brought both Jeremiah and Baruch into will ſurely perform our vows e that we have vowed » tO] a great deal of danger, which probably gave Baruch the occaſion of "burn incenſe to the queen of heaven, and to pour out | the Complaint we ſhal read of, Yer. 7. | drink-offerings unto her : ye will ſurely accompliſh your | _ 2 Thus ſaith the LORD,the God of Iſrael unto thee, | vows, and ſurely perform your vows f. O Baruch c. | | « "Thoſe words have ſpoken are in the Hebrew of the Feminine Gen- | _ © Jeremiah had in his former. Diſcourſes revealed the Will of
der which giveth good reaſon to ſome Interpreters to conclude the | God, concerning Nations, here he revealeth it as to Barxch his
Women were firſt and principal in this Idolatry,and the Mens guilt | Secretary or Clerk,upon which account ſome compare him to Paul,
lay in coniving at them, and ſuffering themſelves to be ſeduced by | writing to Philemen as well as to Chur ches.
them. | Ye, faith the Propher, have ſpoken it, and ye have been as 3 Thou didlt fay, Wo 15 me now, for the LORD
big as your words, and for a cover you pretend the Religion of a | hath added grief to my forrow, I fainted in my ſighing,
Yow, as if a Yow could be a bond of iniquity, , and it were poſlible and I find no reſt 4.
by a Vow to oblige your ſclvetmo a forſaking of the true God,and neſs . | wen . , ad Upon Baruch's reading the Prophecies after he had wrote them Tian wor” os of Idolatry : pen his - rg mical, ſoas to from f gx Mouth of Jeremiah, both he and Jeremiah were ſent for bee oy Ore, Fou - © anda ret-aaddex. fore the Princes, and adviſed to hide themſelves, as we read Chap.
you from your reſolution, God hath reſolved too. oo Trameobibly Sheds | - _ Is, 19. y diſturb'd Baruch, and made him lament 26 Therefore hear FE the word of the LORD, all his en in (ch like expreſſions, of which the Prophet had
Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt, Behold I have | heard, probably by Revelation frem God.
ſworn by my.greatname, faith the LORD g, chat my | 1 "| Thus (balt thou ſay unto him, The LORD faith
name ſhal no more be named in the mouth of any man.” thus, Behold, :har which I have built will E break down,
of Judah, in all the land of Egypt, faying, the LORD| and thar which I have planted I will pluck up, even
God liveth ho this whole land. es FR s An
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- to flight, which the Prophet here publiſheth. God made a fear to
5 And ſcekeſt thou great things for thy ſelf*ſeek them not e; For behold,, I will bring evil upon all fleſb, faith the LORD f: but thy life will I give unto thee * for a
prey, inall places, whither thou goeſt g.