from 2 1c:il2 of his own Infuthciency, 4.4 thee cloguent 2nd couragions, Cc This retares etc Things. To al, 4. c.to ail Perions to whom I thall fend ſh2jt balk none. Sc2 . Or p37 Fre | Tal toOU fait (203 lag.cs ei1ac ] See 1{1. 55. not afraid of their faces e: fo eliver thee g, ſaith the LOR 2 Looks, Ez-k. 3.9. the Indic raged Minds, Pon. 3. 19. Neither when thou UElvere: | fagero them, nor when thou mayeit be cirea butore tnem, 3247 10. r$, 19. This is God's Anſwer to Jeremy's Fears 11 Te{pect Or ne Perions he was to deal with, as the otizer wes 1n his own confcioutneS of Infuificiency ; and he mentions their .CES, becauſe the majeitick Countenance of Princes and Magititrares 15 apr to ſtrike a YCAL Awe and Terror upon Children. f Fil nor oniy ſend thee, as other kings do toy with thee : Thi; God promiles to oſs, 5 6. $. o Here God promites his Prote ” Ohan Then the LORD put forth his hand þ, and rouch- LIP. 5. Q 1end NC LL P . ag Wn L+- ed ; my mouth, and the LORD {aid unto me; Behold, I have * put my wordsin thy mouth.
þ God having before excited rhe Propher to his work by Come mand and Promiſe, doth now in « Vition citablith and confirm him, either by the Hand of an Ange!, as fa. 6. 6, 7. or rarher, by himſelf in ſome vitible ſhape. 7 jt icb. Car? eporr (4s Lhe wW ord 55 uſed Jed. 20. 41.) hereby enabling him ro tpeak : Or, Thou thalt be my Mourh to deliver my Words : partly co ler Jeremy One derftand thatthey were God's Words ; and partly to inrimarte, that they ſhould be effechuz] : and partly, that he thould never be without them, but continually ſupplied. See tne like kind of Phraſe Chap. 5. 14. And he adds, B-hold, g. d. attend ro what I am about to ſay : Or, look upon this outward Sign, and let ut at- fure thee of the things iigmtied.
ro See, I have this day ſet thee over the nations, *Chap.18.and over the kingdoms /, to * root out, and to pul] down 2, and to deltroy, and to throw down, to build
2 Cor. 10. Cor. 19. 1nd to plant ». | | $41 4, 5* [ Having now received his Commuſſion, he is directed to whom
he is to go, v2. to the greateſt, not only ſingle Perſons, but whole Nations, as the Babylonians, Perſians, and Egypiians, and exhorted to greatneſs of Mind, as being fent as an Ambaſſador from God. to deliver his Meſſage without Flattery or Cowardice ; and that he might make that. proud People ſenſible of their Folly, that looked upon themſelves above Reproof, he gives unto bis Prophet this large Authority. 22, 7. e. To prophetic that 1 will pull down ; which I will as certainly effec, as if thou hadſt done it thy {elf : for, according to Scripture uſage, the Prophets are faid to do thar whichthey forerel ſhall come to paſs, Ger. 4. 7. ze. 43. 3. 7-6-to pronounce DeſtruQtion : Hence God 15 {aid to flay them by rhe Words of hi; Mouth, Hof. 6. 5. and foare all the following ExpieTionsfo be underſtood. » Metaphors taken from Archire&s and Gardiners : Either the former Words relate to the Enemies of God, ard the Jarter to his Friends; or rather, to both conditionally : It they repent, he will build them up, 7. e. he will encreatc their Families, and plant them, viz. fertile them in the Land, ap. 24. 6. I they do. nor, te will root them up, and puli them down, &c. He will do the contrary, Compare this with cap, 42. 19. and 45, 4. Thereaſfon why God uſferh ſo many Words to rlic fame purpoſe, ſeems to be, partly to ſkew how deeply all kind of Wickedneſs and Contempt of God k:6 rzken root ; which potſibly may be one reaſon why he placethi Pulling down and Rooting up, before Building and Plant- ing, to ſhew what a deal of Rubbiih there was to be removed, before he could reform, and repair his Church and State : Or ra- ther, becauſe the Prophet was to begin with theſe in his Prophe- - fie, asappears by his ſecond Vilions, wer. 11. 13. and purtly to quicken the Propher's Zeal 2gainſt them- 11 5 Moreover, the word of the LORD cameo un- to me, faying, Jeremiah, whar ſeeſt chou ? and I ſaid
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o This and the boiling Czuldron, werſe 13. is rhought to be at the ſame time, and in the fame Viftion, when he was firſt a»- pointed ro his Work. p, Viz. That had Leaves and poſſibly Bloſ ſoms on it, like Aaron's, Numb. 17.8. for without Leaves at leaſt, 'tis poſſible he had not to readily gueſſed of what kind ir had been. This is a Tree thatbloſloms early, and ſpeedily, and hence hath irs Name in Hebrew Scaka, ignifying warchful, for- ward, nimble, Or quick ; and fo it may point at either God's Readineſs to fſmire, woe 12, which is deſcribed elſewhere by Summe:r-Fruit, Amos 8-1, 2. Or Iſracls Ripenets to be ſinitten as we have the like Ezeh. 7. 10,11. or both ; this Rod being like 2 POIfentous Comet, thewing to Jereminy the Miterics thar Were at hand, as the Dearth of Jo/tah, which ſoon followed this Vitior, 2 Kings 23. 29.* and the taxing them by Pharaoh Necks, 2 Kings 23- 3s. and preſently after the breaking in of the Challe; Syri- ans, Noabites, and Ammonites, 2 Kings 24.2, and then the Ba ylg- ian Captivity, 2 Kings 24. 10. which happened in the 8th Year of 7eniahim, 2 Kings 24. 1% when Nebnchannctar took him with others, and carricd them away about twenty three Years from hence ; and about the goth Year 7F:ruſuol: was taken, and the Temple burnt.
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a Or, thou haſt ſeen and judged right : Or, as the Hebrew, hou haſt done well to ſee, 1. e. in teeing fo. 4 Word for Word, 1 | w/ll Amond-tree it, 7, e T will be upon them ſpeedily, in a ſhort ume, and ſuddenly, ere they arc aware : Or, I will warch, and | beready to accompliſh this 1n due time. /, z. e. My Word of | Threatning againſt 7zdah and its Inhabitants. | : And the word of the LORD came unto me the | ſecond time, faying, What ſeelt thou ? and I ſaid, I | fee a ſeething-pot z, and the face « thereof # f rowards + Heb. ; the north x. OOO ne | 2 Afrer the ſmaller Puniſhment from the Lord, follows this Jace of the | of the Boiling-por, by wiuch ynderitand Jrdca and Feruſalem, as orth. | may appear by tne Application that they themſelves make of it {ina way of Scorn and Derifion, Ezek.11. 3.7. Some put- the