Jeremiah 4

Jeremiah 4:1

REturne] constantly, and sincerely Then shalt thou not] the Italian, and wilt no more goe wandering] that is to say, through in constancie to follow, sometimes one Idol, and sometimes another, for want of a firme resolution to stand to the performance of thy duty towards me.

Jeremiah 4:2

Thou shalt sweare] that is to say, thou shalt acknowledge and call upon the onely true eternall God, an oath being a proofe of the Godhead which one worshippeth, Psalms 63:11. Isa.19 18. & 65. 16 The Nations] thou shalt re-obtaine the ancient right and title, to be called the stocke or body of the Church, into which all Nations shal think themselves happy and honoured, to be incorporate, according to the promise, Gen. 12. 3. & 22. 18.

Jeremiah 4:3

Breake up] that is to say, by a true contrition and repentance, prepare your hearts to receive the seed of my word.

Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise your selves] put off your wickednesse and naturall corruption, which was the spirituall truth of the Sacrament of the corporall circumcision, Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6 Col. 2 11

Jeremiah 4:5

Declare] a representation of the generall uproare upon the eomming of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 4:6

Set up] namely, to give the signall.

Jeremiah 4:7

The Lyon] namely, Nebuchadnezzar.

Jeremiah 4:9

The Prophets] namely, the false Prophets which fed the people with vain predictions of peace, Jer. 26. 7, 8. & 28. 1 Ezek 13. 2. 10.

Jeremiah 4:10

Said I] Jeremiahs words Surely thou hast] that is to say, is it possible that thou shouldest suffer this people to be deceived by false Prophets, that have in thy name promised them peace: and that thou shouldest grant their errour to take so much effect? see Jeremiah 6:1-30; Jeremiah 14:1-22. Ezech. 14 9.

Jeremiah 4:11

A dry winde] he seemes by this dry winde, to meane, the Northerly winde, from which coast the Chaldeans came, which kinde of winde is most violent and durable, Job 37:22. Proverbs 25:23. Not to san] the Corne in the floore, for to that purpose are required moderate windes, whereas 〈…〉 is boisterous and doth dissipate and disperse. The meaning is, this scourge will be to d〈…〉tion, and not to correction.

Jeremiah 4:13

He shall come up] namely, the King of Babylon, who is signified by this winde.

Jeremiah 4:15

For 〈…〉 &c.] the Italian, fr there is a voice that 〈…〉, that 〈…〉y is greater tn in Dan, and pro〈…〉eth that it is more griv tn i mount Ephraim, that is to say, it is as well knowne as if it were proclaimed, that the sinnes of Jerulem, especially for Idolatry, are farre greater then the sinnes of Dan, or Bithel in the consines of Ephraim, whereJeroboam had set up the Calves, 1 Kings 12:29.

Jeremiah 4:16

Make ye mention] a description as it were of a generall Commission from God, to raise a great Army against Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:17

Keepers] which go about the fields, to keep out Theeves and Cattell.

Jeremiah 4:19

My 〈…〉ls] the Prophets words, lamenting the desolation of his people.

Jeremiah 4:20

My Tents] that is to say, all my dwellings, a description, as it were, of the ruine and overthrow of a Campe.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my] these are Gods words.

Jeremiah 4:23

I beheld] that is to say, I Jeremiah have seen in a vision the representation of this horrible desolation which was to come They had no] an hyperbolicall terme, as if he should say, every thing above and beneath was, as it were, enfolded in mournfull darknesse, see Isa. 5. 30. & 50. 3.

Jeremiah 4:29

The whole City] the Italian, all the Cities; that is to say, the inhabitants of them They shall goe] that is to say, they are fled into the woods, and holes of mountaines.

Jeremiah 4:30

And when thou art] the Italian, and thou spoiled; that is to say, O thou Nation of the Jewes, or thou Jerusalem, though in these thine extreame calamities thou endeavourest by cunning allurements, and vile submission to obtaine the favour of thine ancient friends, with whom thou hast held, to the wronging of the purity of my service, yet all that shall nothing availe thee: for the one shall forsake thee, namely the Egyptians; and the other will see thee perish, namely, the Chaldeans, and neither shall care for thee any more then for an old ill favoured strumpet, Ezek. 16. 36. and 23. 22.