c Gol alterwards explaineth tothe Prophet,and he to the King's Poule, the fignificancy of this Viſion. The Figs firſt ripe ate uſually belt : By theſe good Figs, as will appear by the followin Verles are intended, Feconiah or Jehozakin, with the ten thouſand mentioned, 2 Kings 24.14. and the 7000 mentioned, Ver. 16, which went with him into Captivity. d By the other Figs which were very bad, not to be eaten, are ſignified Zedekiah and the re- {due of the people carried with him into Captivity. Some may object, thar Feconizh, and the people then carried away, were wicked enough, why eiſe were they carried away, and being lo, how are they compared to good Figs> Anſw. Though they were 3d. yet they might be comparatively goud ; this people for the z3 Years they continued intheir own Land, after that their Bre- thren were carried away, not only continuing in their former courſes, but (t{]] growing worſe and worſe. 2. They ſeem not to be called good or bad Figs with reſpect to their Manners or Qua- tity, but in reſpect to what God intended to do to them, viz. to ule them as bad Figs are uſed, rot fir to be eaten.
3 Then ſaid the LORD unto me, What ſceſt thou
Jeremiah e? and1I faid, Figs- the good figs, veryſp
Slall the kingdoms of the earth, for thr hurt, to be a fur 1emo-
reproach, and a proverb, a taunt, and a curſe in all vivg places whither I ſhall drive them 7, Venus:
þ The Lord by his Prophet exprefſerh thoſe tremendous Judg- vane ments which he had deſigned to bring upon this wicked Prince wt” _ and People in the words of 2f{s/-; the Man of God, as well becauſs | *'8* the Jews hada great Reverence ( pretendedly ar leaſt ) for Moſes, 2 Ch | how little foever chey had for Feremiah; as to let them ſee, thar OP what the Lord here threatned, aud ſuddenly would bring to pats, was bur in a juſt accompliſhment of what he before had threatned in his Law, by which they ought to have taken warning. The ſum is, he would make them 2 coinmen Scof, and By-word, that their Milery ſhould be a common Proverb, and when Men would curſe one another, they ſhould wiſh them like Z24chiuh and the Fews.
10 AndIwill ſend the ſword, the famine, and the eſtilence among{!t then, till they be confimed from off the land, that i gave uno tem and to their fa-
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good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be catea | they are 10 evil.
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# Many of them ſhall not live to be carried into Captivity, but ſhall die miſerably in their own Land, if not by the Enemies Sword, yer. by the Famine and the P2ſtilence, which ewo things ordinarily attend long Sieges : By one of theſe three ſore Judg- ments of Gol they ſhall be conſume our of rhe Land, and ſhall not hold it by the Title of God's gitc of 1t to their Fathers. No gifts of God, except thofe of {vecial Grace,are perperunties : but either given, Duan diubene ſe geſſ-rint, ſo long as Men behave themſelves well in re uſe of them; or, Durant? bene placito, during Goi's good Will and Pleajure,
CHAP.
Their Dif b>di-nce to the Prophets regrovel, I, ——= 7. The Seventy — 11. and dſter that the D:-
T:ars of Captivity furenld, 5, it th (frution of Babylon, 12, 14. By 4 Cup of u ine is fort= Tye howling of
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the Shepherds, 34, — 3
I HE word that came to Jeremiah the Prophet concerning all the people of Judah, 1n the fourth year of Jchoiakim the fon of Joſiah king of Judah , that was the firſt year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon 6. | 1 The fourth Year of Fehc:1him was. ſeven Years and odd Months before Jeconiah or Feboiakin his Son was carried into Captivity, as appears from 2 K!ngs 23. 36. and Chap. 24. 8, FF. and 18 Years before the taking of the City, and the more genera! Captivity ; which argueth that this Prophecy 15 mitplaced, and ſet after the former, whereas in order of time 1t was 16 or 17 Years before it. bThis is ſaid to be the firſt Year of Nebuchadnez- +4r (called by Prelomy, Nabopollaſſar.) It is ſaid Dan. 1. 1. that this Nebuchadrez3ar came up in the third Year of Fehozakim ; to which is anſwered, that the firſt Year of Nebuchadnexgar's Reign muſt be underſtood of his abſolute Reign, which concurred partly with the third, partly wich-the fourth Year of Jeho72him. Tney ja he was before a ſharer in the Kingly Government with his Fa- ther, bur this was tae firſt Year that he had the Name of King intizely given unto him. 2 The which Jeremiah the prophet ſpake to all
the pcople of Judah, and to all the inhabirants of | bridegroom and the voice of the bride 7, the found co 55
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c 1tat 1s, the word concerned them all, and he ſpake ir to fo} many of them, as he met with in any publick aſſembly at Hzeru- | {:1zm, or ellewhere,
3 From the thirteenth year of Joftah the ſon of | Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that zs the three and twentieth year, 4 the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and | have ſpoken unto you, ri- ſing early and ſpeaking * but ye have not heark-
4 We read Chap. 1. 2. that Feremiah began to propheſie in the ;
FEREMIAH
LORD, chat ye mizht provoke me to che works of your hands = to your own hurt -.
yon, but you did not obey, and hearken. 't on purpole to incenie me againft you, whoam of my co wrath, and mult be provcked to execute vindicariy Mens own wicked Works. hure me, bur are to theic hurt who do them.
8 Þ Therefore thus ſaith the LORD of ho{s,! cauſe yuu have not heard my words p. p That 1s, becaitte you have not hearkne! to, an ob2; 24
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the king of Babylon my ſervant 5, and will .brigs
them againſt this land, and againft the init witants thereof 7, and again(t all theſe nations round atour /
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aſtoniſhment, and an hiſſing, and a perpetual defo ION 5,