houſe upon the faſting days : and alfo thou ſhalt
read them in the ears of all Judah, that come out of
their Cities.
g We donot read that Jeremiah was a Priſoner in the fourth Year of Jehoiakim, and therefore it is very uncertainly gueſſed in what fence he here ſaith he wrt ps up. Some think Jehozakim had impriſoned him, ora leaſt reſtrained him to his Houſe, tho” we do not read of it. Others think he reſtrained h{tnſelf, but-in what ſence he was ſhut up is, not certain, That he was ſo {is cer- eain. He knew that God had not commanded his Prophecies to be written for any other end but that the People might have them reci]led to their Memories; he being not in a capacity himſelt at preſent to ſpeak any thing tothe People in ſo.publick a place
ſendeth Barzch to do it in his ſtead, chuſing for ita Day of publick Faft, not the Day of the Yearly Feaſt mentioned Lev. 23. z7. bur on a Faſt Day (of which weſhall read more;Ver. g.) procliamed by Febojakim, probably toavere the Vengeance hanging over them from the Chaldeans, or rather fromthe drought. It was undoubt= edly, becauſe of the Concourſe of People which the Prophet knew would,that Day be in the Temple, that he choſe chat Day
this pleaſech God, he promiſeth to reward them with the con- |
when ſome would be preſent from all parts of Judah, - It
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| ; , | - ..,, Years before, and from him ſucked in io carion ſhall y;. evil way, for great is the anger, and the fury, Principles, .v hich ban tan he: Foeplynwts and Religious
bp: {ill , , ; . . = that the LORD hath pronounced againſt this 17 And they asked Baruch, ſaying, Tell us now, people þ. FR, How didſt thou write all theſe words at his mouth s 7 þ We had an expreſſion hike this, Ver. Fe teacheth = that , This now leemed but a rea!onable Queſtion, conlidering they that the only means to turn away God's fterce anger ready tO yr. he ſubſtance of what he had been Prophelying tor ſo ma-« ta;l upon People, is Prayer and Reformacion. ; . hy Years. Thething ſeemed ſtrange to the Princes, Prophets be- $ And Baruch the ſon of Neriah, did according ing not uſed to ſtudy and penfcheir Diſcourſes, bur to ſpeak them
Lo all that Jeremiah the. prophet commanded him, extempore. | reading in = book of the words of the LORD, in! ,,73 Then Baruch agſiwered them, He pronunced the LORD's houſe. all theſe words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote . : 1 © Tehoj them with :-+ in the book r.
9. And it came to paſs in the fifth year of Jehola-, , Th;, 114 not bur add to the Princes fear and amazement. chim, theSon of Joliah king of Judah, in the ninth, They muſt needs conceive that the thing was done from God, tor month that they proclaimed a faſt, before the LORD | without a ſpecial influence of God,it had been a thing impoſlible,
| to all the peo- |fhat Feremiah ſhould have called to mind all that he had ſpoken co all the People in Jeruſalem, and P at ſevera] times in ſo many Years ; and proceeding from hs God
ple that came from the cities of Judah unto Jeruſa- of Truth, they muſt needs fear, that they would have their cer- lem. , tain and juſt accompliſhment in their ſeaſon.
i This yl was rings ___ a re — 19 Then faid the Princes unto Baruch, Go, hide ther ic was for a Famine which was then 1n the , the | : | ey the ruine which they juſtly feared from the king of Babylon,who rm Srongy, and Jeremiah, and let no man knory
had lately brought them under his Servitude, is not certain 3 the ; : yearly Sy Fm 23. 27, wastobe kept in the ſeventh Month,nor | # This ſpeaketh- theſe Princes to have been Men of a muck.
did God ever ordain any Faſt to be kept in the ninth Months gentler Temper, and better Diſpoſition,chan thoſe who ſucceed- ed them in Zedekiah's time ; they were not willing that any harm
10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of[q,,41d come to the Prophet, nor to Beruch, and knew the fierce Jeremiah in the houſe ofthe LORD, 1n the chamber Temper of Feboiaghim, and therefore advit:d Baruch, that buck of Gemariah the ſon of Shaphan the ſcribe, in the| he and the Propher ſhould hide themſelves, higher court, at the * || entry of thenew gate off 30 And they went in to the king, into the court, . the LORD's houſe in the ears of all the people #. but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Eliſhama # 1 Or, door. h This verſe only atteſteth Baruch's Obedience to the Com-f thu fihe and told all the words in the cars of the . mand ol the Prophet Feremy, not only as to the —_ — king w "yy ws irc n as PUD11C 0- ; . . pt Ain FAR p = ET On - oft likely out| ,» They were obliged by their Office, as Councellors to the of ſome Window, or in ſome Balcow. the People being below, King, to acquaine him with what they heard, which might be or oebSbegg 3 , , prejudicial ro him, and his Nation ; and indeed this was the very I Ss : end why God had commanded the enrolling of theſe Prophecies, 11 When Micaiah the ſon 6f Gemariah, the ſon| chat both the King and Princes, and People might take notice of of Shaphan had hcard out of the book all the words | them, burthey did not carry the Book with them, bur laid it up of the LORD in the Secretaries Chamber. | 12 Then hewentdown into the king's houſe, intof 21 So the king ſent Fehndi to fet the roll, And he the ſcribes chamber, and lo all the princes fate there, | took it out of Eliſhama the ſcribes chamber, And Je- even Eliſhama the ſcribe, and Delaiah the ſon of She-| hudi read it inthe ears of the king, and in the earsof maiah the ſon of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the ſon of| all the princes which ſtood beſide the king x,