{ The Prophet here riſerth higher, from prayer to praiſe, it is not certain whether this was a rejzoycing of faith. or of ſenſe; a Thankſgiving ro God upon his Deliverance out of the tand of Pa- ſhur or ſome other Enemies, or a rejoycing in the ſure belief that God would deliver his life out of the hands of theſe wicked Men. If we takeir in the latter ſenſe, it teacheth us our Daty, ro give God the honour of all our Deliverances from the hands of wicked Men. If in the former ſenſe ir ſheweth us the power of ſaith, which be- ing the ſubFance of things not ſeen, and evidence of things but hoped for ; ſhewerh us things ro come as if already preſent, and teach- eth ro rejoiyce 1n the hope of thoſe things of which we have no preſent poſſeſſion.
14 < * Curſcd be the day wherein I was born : * cp,p. let not the day wherein my mother bare me be bleſ- i;. rc-
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2» This ſudden change of the Prophet's ſtile, maketh both Mr, Calvin, and fome other good interpreters, think thar theſe words proceeded from Jeremiah rather 2s a repetition of a former paſſion into which the Abuſes of his Enemies had pur him, than as the immediate produR of his Spirit at this rime. Whenever they were ſpoken, they ſpeak a very extravagant Paſſion, ro ſhery us, that tho' Jere#izh was a great Man, yet he was bur a Man, encom - paſſed with infirmities,and ſubje& rolike paſſions with other Men. We find Job 1n the like paſſion, Chap. 5. 3. Theſe great failures of God's People ſtand in Scripture, as Rocks in the Sea appear, ro mind Mariners to keep off them, nor to run upon them.
15 Curſedbethe man who brought tidings to my father, ſaying, A man child is born unto thee, mak- ing him very glad z. |
: 3 Parents are uſually rejoyced when a Son is Born to them,
16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew and repented not, let him hear the cry in the morning, and the ſhouting at moon- tide o.
o By the Cities he means thoſe Cities mentioned, Ger, 19. 25. Sodom and Gomorrhz, By the cry in the Morning and ſnsting at
N10n, he means the ſhours and noiſes that Enemies make when they break in upon a place in an hoſtile manner.
17 Becauſe he ſlew me not from the Womb : or
that my mother might have been my grave, and her
womb to be always great wath me p. p Theſe various expreiſions do only let us ſee to what tid e paſ-
ſion ſwelled in this good Man's heart,and teach us how much need
we
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} is brought as a rational argumeat to prove that only Men wro'e the Scriptures by inſpiration from God, they would never elle hive recorded their own grot> failings, Men commonly WI108 for their o'wn honour, not to their own Gefamation. 12 * \\hereforecame l forth out of the womb to F y +170 2: ! > 2» ; Fe our and ſorrow. that my days ſhould be confu with ſhame-? q- : Thele words let ns know the Prophet's Temptarion to tele it was the reproach and ſhame,
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extravarmant eruptions of patiion,
2nd aRiftion which he indured tor the faithful diſctarge of Nis!
Minit y which both Jets us iee the goodiets of God rowards tnole whom he ſpare:h as to thele Trials, and what Peel WE have ur Ger them to {cepa watt hupon our own hearts. Theie Recorcs 3!lo of Holy Writ are uletu} to us, if at any time we be overtaken with ſach errors, 10 comfort us, in that they are not ſuch Jpots Fur have beer: found in the Faces of God's faireſt ones : anc to make us charitable towards ſuch as we may lee IOMmet1it.es OVer- 0:6 with the lize Temptations.
C H AP. XA
Kine Zedekiah in the Siege ſendeth t0 J-rem'iah to -»quir? of toe Event, 1,2, He forctelleth a hard Stege and miſerable Captrunty.
2, —— 7, He counſelleth the People 10 fall 19 the Chaldeans, |
S, — 1o. ard upbraideth the Kirg's Houſe, 11, — 14. 1 THE word which came to Jeremialiggrom tne LORD «, when king Zedekiah featunto nim
Paſhur the ſon of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the-ſon of
Maaſeiah the Prieſt, ſaying b,
a2 God in tuncry times, and in divers manners, paſt, to the Fatiiers by the P:ophets, Heb. 1. 7. The two princt- pa] were viſions and dreams, Numb. 12. 6, How the following word came to Jeremzah 1s not exprelt, 1t 1s enough that he knew jr came from the Lord. b i: is apparent, tome Proplecies 1n this Book are not put in therig':t orcer as they were dclivered, Chap, :5, we ſave an account of the word of the Lord which came to $-remiah in the fon th Year of Fehojakim, who was the ſecond Son of Foſrah made King by Phzraob-Necbo, puriuing his Viftary (mentioned 2 Chron. 35. 22.) upon the Battle. in which Fifth was killed, as we read there. The people made Jev02hay Ring, but he rejgned bur three Months,and the Conqueror carrying him away, made E/jahim his Brother King, changing his Name to Jeboruhim, who reigned 11 Years, that 1s 7 atter the word of the Lord men- tioned, Chap: 25. came to ]:remi!”; afrer whom Fehotakin his Son reigned three Months and 10 Days: Zedekiah was his Uncle, rhe Son of Fofiah, h2 reigned 11 Years. Sothar it is plain that Feremiah's Prophecy, (mentioned Chap. 25.) was 7 Years and 3 Months before this, beſides the number of Years that Z21&7ab had reigned. But fome think that Jeremiah, Chap. 23-24, 25. doth vut make a repetition to Z-4*%rrh's Mefſ-nzers of what he kad before propheſted. This Meſſage was (as appeareth by the next
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the City wastaken. The fatal Slege held about a Year and half, as appears DY Ch ip, 39. 1,2. The P 1ſhur mentioned here, WAS Aano-! ther from him, mentioned Chip. 20. 1. he was the Son of [n:mvry. ot the fixree:th Courſe of the Vrielts; and ofa more rugzed 11] Temper -; this was the So1 of 3feichith,and fo of the fifth Cour!
2 Enquire l pray thee of the LORD for us c, (for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war azain!t
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c Zedekiab,as he was none of the beft, fo he was none cf the
preflions (poſtib!y from his Education) not worn off, and having} lome reverence of God, he ſends to the Prophet to enquire of the | Cord, Becaule of the King of Babz/on was come up to make war | 2painſt them. Tt is true the greateſt Contemners of God and lis]