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: . Bio os e this Rela- : 1 It is uncertain whether this Micaiah went to make this | co fetch the R:1/, (before called a Book) then he imployeth him
tion tothe Princes who ſate in the Secretaries Chamber, as a nan ys Piece of News only, or out of a malicious deſign to accuſe che . | " Prophet, and Baruch for what was done, as a ſeditious practice. } 22 Now the king ſate in the winter-bouſe -in the
13 Then Micaiah declared unto them all the ninth month, and rhere was a fire on the hearth burn- words that he had heard when Baruchread the book | ing before him y.
. Rs . Y The Ninth Month with them anſwered part of our Nover-+ ——_— ed ore? on. my. e words, for none can imagine ber and December, which was a time of the Year called for Fires. that an hearer could remember every word, which ſhews theſ 23 And it came to paſs that when Jehudi had _— of thole -=_ ar yo _ univerſal Particles to ſignt- read three or four leaves, hez, cut it with a Nenh- knife, FEREF PRCTICHINE WOrG CF PETERG and caſt :t into the fire, that was on the hearth, until 14 Theretore all the princes » ſent Jehudi the ſon _ 4 Artn, of Nethaniah, the ſon of Shelemiah the ſon of Cuſhi "ogg was confumed ia the fire that was on the pl]
a B aruch, ſaying, Take in thy hand the roll, 2 That is, the King not having patience to hear above three wherein thou haſt read 1n the ears of the people, and or tour Columns, or Periods, or Titles, took the Pen-knife that cone. So Baruch the ſon of Neriah, took the roll| (it is like) Fehud had, and cut it in pieces, and burned it in the in his hand, and came unto them. | fire that —_ —_— _ —_— m it ie on , : : . in Coun-| *i0n of the Will © , but exalcing himſelf above all that was
n That is, all the Princes that at that time ſate there 1 called God. This tid ak the wickedneſs and palkanare Tour:
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the People. 24. Yet they were not afraid, nor * rent their, , Kings
15 And they faid unto him, Sit down now, and ; | read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their|garments, neither the king nor any of his ſervants ,,, xx. , that heard all theſe words 4.
Ears P. , P H he courage of Baruch is admirable ; he was now before] _ £ So har dened were this People Hearts,that though they knew the Council, in the King's Houle, the ſubſtance of the Prophectes, that Feremiah was a Prophet of the Lord, upon theexperience were threatning both to the king, and Court, andto all the Peo-| 10W of more than 20 years, and the whole ſcope of his Prophe- ple. The king as appears by all Hiſtory, was of no good Tem-|C1e5 had been to denounce the juſt judgments of God that now per, we read Chap. 26.Ver.23. of his ſending for #rijah the Pro-| Were coming upomthis People, and they could _ but under- pher out of Egypt when he had fled thither for fear of the King, | ſtand, that God mult be greatly aſſiſtant ro Feremiah in writing and flaying him, and we ſhall find that art this time, the Princes | this Roll, all the matter of whicl1 he could not otherwile have adviſed both Feremy and Baruch to hide themſelves, ryet Baruch, kept in mind fo many Yeats, yet they had no ſerious fear of God is not afraid, but reads the Prophecy in their Ears: upon their hearts, working upon the hearing the dr eadful mat- : ter of theſe Prophecies, nor ſhewed any ſign of remorſe, or ſence
16 Now itcame to paſs, when they had heard all' of their fins, or God's Judgments coming upon them as indica-
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the words, they were afraid both one and other 9, tions of his Wrath. ; and faid to Baruch, we will ſurely tell the king of; 25 Nevertheleſs Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Ge- all theſe words r. | \ mariah, had made interceſſion to the king, that he
q It is hardly to be imagined that all theſe Counſellors ſhould wonld not burn the roll, but he would not hear ſit ſtill till they had heard all Feremiah's Prophecies for 22 Years them þ., | X read, but all ſignifies many ; or the ſence and ſubſtarice of allthej ' ,, Theſe three Princes ſeemed to have had a greater drea1 of Prophecies. r They are all of them afraid. Feremiab had now | 5,1 upon their hearts than the reſt, for fo tar asthey durſt,clity been above twenty Years a Prophet to this People,and doubtleſs | ;... poſed, and beſought the King not to burn the Roll ; bur he in great eſteem for 18 Years of it, while Fofiab wasalive, and one | ,,.1114 nothearken to their advice. —_— Fn they WTI _ —_— _ m_ -— _—_— 26 But the king commanded Jerameel the ſon of Pltityed ; therefore they cold not but be atraid tnat teney mou . E 1 bs lee theſe words allo fufilled,andtook themſelves bound in Duty to | Hammelech and Seraiah the fon of Azriel, —_— ook ef he
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ve King was not ſatisfied with burning the Roll, but gives | 3nd = þ of the 1and, did hearken to the words of the LORD ow b which he ſpake by + the Prophet Jeremiah 4. F Heb. Providence kept them both ont of rheir hands. How the Lord kid them weare not told, the Princes as (we read before) adviſed ! Baruch that they ſhould both hide themſelves. This Phrate (prob- !
order to apprehend both Feremizh and Buruch, and commandeth the three Perſons named 1n this verſeto do it : 4 But God by his
ably) imports no more, than that God directed them to find ſuch a place of recels as the Kings Meſſengers could by -no means find out nor unde: ſtand where they were, till the King's Paſlion was a little over.
27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jere- miah after that the king had burnt the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the month of Jeremiah, ſaying,
28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it 21l the former words that were in the firſt roll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burnt.
29 And thou ſhalt ſay to Jehotakim, king of Ju- dah, Thus faith the LORD, Thou haſt burat this roll, ſaying, Why haſt thou written therein, ſaying, The king of Babylon ſhall certainly come and deltroy this land, and ſhall caule to ceaſe from thence man
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