q | will put 1* 11to the heart of all r5oſe Kinzs, whote Ter: itn. ries lye Northward of Judea, and patticular!y a Nev!-chadrez3ar the King of Babylon, who in this Work tha!l 6e my Srvant ; though you will not be my Servants ia obeying mv Commands, yer he ſhall ſerve me, Chap. 27. 6, and 43-10. »r 1 will bring chemand their Armies up againtt this people,and 1 will put you out of hopes from your Alliances with other Nations, tor ne ſhajl firſt bring them under his Command. Thus we reac, 2 Kings 24. 7. that the King of Babylon had invaded the Ez prizn Domintons, and taken from the River of Egppr, unto the River | Kupnrates, all that pertained to the King of E2y9r. | And I will
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to you, and I have not been negligent in my Work, but like Men, that get up early in the Morniag to diſpatch their bulineſs, fo have I been 1n the diſcharge of my Prophetical Office. | 4. And the LORD hath ſent unto you all his ſer- vants the prophets, * riſing early and ſending them,
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f Nor am I the only Prophet whom the Lord hath ſent you, and whom you have neglected and deſpiſed : God hath ſent you many more, and you have deſpiſed as many as he hath ſent, though the Lord hath made it his Buſinefs to fend you one after another from time to time. This contempt of the Lord's Meſlengers is made. the proximate cauſe of God's Wiath coming upon this people 'ti!l
there was no remedy, 2 Chron. 36. 16. |
5 They ſaid, * Turn ye again now every one,from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers, for ever and ever g.
g The lubſtance both of their, and my Sermons hath been to perlwade you to leave off thoſe ſinful courſes wherein you have lived, and which you might have amended by vertue of that com- mon Grace which I did not deny you. We have not differed in our
it, you ſhould enjoy this good Land which the Lord promiſed, | and gave to you and your Fathers, and you have now pollefſed trom Ape to Age.
6 And go not after other gods h to ſerve them ; and to worſhip them z, and provoke me not to anzer with the works of your hands &, andI will do you no hurt /.
h Idols, which indeed are no Gnds, but fo called by Ido!aters. z To pay any divine homage unto them. k And provoke me not to anger by Idois which are the Work of Mens hands, ( no un- created Beings.) Or more generally any Works which are con- | trary to the Law of God. {It you do this I will by my Provi- —_ do you no harm ; you ſhall yet enjoy your own Land an | projper,
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11 And this whole land ſhall be a deflation, az an aſtoniſhment, and theſe nations ſhall ferve- the king of Bahylon ſeventy years w.
w [his Propnecy 15a tamous Prophecy in regard cf its fixing the particular ſpace of time in which the J:ws above in the Cap- tivity of Babylon, vit. leveinty Years. When ther determined we are plainly enough told, Exr 1.1. in the firſt Year of C3725 the King of Perfi1; but when they commenced 1s more d:!pured ; for we read of three carr p1085 into that Captivity, the one in the thir 4 and fourth year of Jeb ichim, when it ſhou!d. ſeem that N-buck.c4. r-773ar, only carried away toine few pertons to be bred in 1:15 Court, amongſt whom were Daniel and the Three? Chil.fren, Dy, I. 1, 2,07, Alecond leven Years after 1n Jeconiah's time, 2 X:»7s 24.15, 16, The Jaſt an4 moſt general eleven Years atter, in £12 T 129, Year of Z J+hizb: Ir icemerh moſt probable that the [-v27n:y Tears mult be reckoned from the (econd; for Jeremiih, Cap. 2.9: I,2, 3- writing to thote then 113 Captivity, telis chem, Thar w hen ſeventy Tears ſhould be a-complijhed, God would 6-1nz rem bart, This is confirmed by Exz:kz721, Chap. 40. r. where the forrieen: 5 Tear aftes the taking of the City is expietly 1ai4 co be the twen'y fiſth Year of their Captivity,
12 And it ſhall come to paſs * when the ſeventy years are accompliſhed x, 7. T will + puniſh. the 7 king of Babylon, and that nation, faith the L,GRT. , for their iniquity, and the Jand of the Chaideans, and : * will make 1t perpetual deſolations y. _
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