ſ Thar 1s, ro forget me, and thoſe things by which I have made my ſelf known unto them, my Word, and my Works. t By their Dreams which they tell abroad every one to his Neighbour, as 1f they were Revelations which I had in their ſleep made unto them 3 bur they are indeed Lies, and nothing but the Deceirs of their own Hearts, « So that in effe& they are Baal's Pri-(ts ; for as Baal's Prophets, bur publiſhing rheir prerended Revelations from Baal, ſeduced the People from the Service and Obedience of the true God; ſo theſe, by telling their pretended Dreams, ſeduced Men from their Ozedience to God in whar he revealed tothem by thetrue Prophets : they agreed in the End, the Sedu- civg of the People from God, though they differed in the Mean, the one pretending Revelations from Baal, the other from the true God by their Dreams. -
28 The prophet that Þ hath a dream w, let him Ila dream; and he that hath my word, let him ſpeak my word faithfully x : what is the chaffro the wheat, ſaith the LORD y ?
_ W Nor a Divine Dream; a Revelation which I have made to him | n his ſleep, ( asappearerh by the following Oppoſition, betwixt a Dream, and the Word of the Lord, ) butif any Man hath dreamed ' a1 ordinary Dream, let him tell it as a Dream 3 let him nor en- | title God roit, x And ler him t5 whom I have revealed my Wil, publiſhiand declare Thar in all Truth and Fairhfulneſs, nor adding his own Fanctes or Dreams to 1t, 2 Cor. 2.17. 1Pet. 2.2. not corrupting my Word. y There is as much difference berween my Will and thetr Dreams, as there 1s berwixr rhe Cn4ff and the Wheat; the one is of value to make Food for the Soul, as Wear doth for the B91y; the other is of no value: The one | (vir. my Ward) 1s of a ſolid, abiding Subſtance ; ths orfiex 15 | 11917 and airy, and eatily fcatrered hy eyery W1nd,
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3- Thns fſhalr thon ſay to the prophet 4, What hath the LORD anſwered thee ? aud what hath the | ORD ſpoken ?
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e God having cauſed the Prophet to have ſuch a viſible ob*e&t appear to him, ask'd him, what he ſaw ? as Fer. 1. 11.
4 Again the word of the LORD came uato me, ſaying,
5. Thus faich the LORD, the God of Iſrael g,Like .,, theſe good figs; ſo willl acknowledge || them that Captivity, are carricd captive out of Judah h, whom l have ſeat ; our of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for
38 But. ſith ye ſay, The burden of the LORD ; therefore thus ſaith the LORD, Becauſe you ſay the word, the burdea of the LORD », and I have ſeat unto you, ſaying, Ye ſhall nor ſay, The burden ot the LORD -, =1
r Becauſe you go On fn your ſcoffing, ant dericing my Word 2nd my Prophets. { And that when I have exprefly forbidden you thoſe profane Speeches, or that deriding torm of Speech; add- ing turther contemptro your former protanenels.
29 Therefore bchold, I, even I, will utterly for- get you 7, and I will foriake you z, and the city that | gave you and your fathers w, 4d caſt y my preſence x. |
: L will torger you as tomy AffeQion, and that is more than if a!l your friends torgat you. There is a great Emphaſis 1n the dou. bling ot the Pronoun, 1, even T. u I will forlake you asto the pre- ſence of my {pccial gracious Providence. w And do not flatter your ſelves that I will not do it, becaule of your Fathers, or be- cauſe | gave this City to your Farhers, tor that very Ciry 1 Will withdraw my ſpecial Providence trom,and that Land,which here- tofore was called, The land which the Lord thy God careth for, upsn which the «y:s of the Lord are always from the beginning c< the year, even to the end of the year, Deut. 11.12. x And I will caſt botk City and People out of my gracious preſence : So as I will no longer do them goed as 1 have done.
40 And 1 will bring an everlaſting Reproach up- on you y, and a perpetual ſhame which ſhall not be forgottreu 2. |
y And you ſhall be a reproach, and that not for a few days but forever. 4 And a perpetual ſhame, which neither you nor thoſe that ſee or hear of it ſhall forget. See ſuch Expreſſions, Chap. 20, Il.
CHAP. XXIV.
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ther good 7.