Jeremiah 7

Jeremiah 7:4

THe temple] that is to say, God dwelleth in this Temple, and hath no other habitation in the world, wherefore he will never depart from hence, and this Temple shall be a secure pledge of his grace to us, Micah 3:11.

Jeremiah 7:9

Whom ye] namely, new strange god, whose godheads and powers you never tried, as you have done me.

Jeremiah 7:10

And say] namely, that you have avoided my judgements, as your false prophets doe perswade you, and so return to your accustomed wickednesses more then ever you did before.

Jeremiah 7:12

At the first] even since Joshuah’s time, who placed the tabernacle of the Covenant in Shiloh, Joshua 18:1. which was the first place of is setled abode.

Jeremiah 7:15

The whole] namely, the whole ten tribes, which were often called by the name of the chiefe and predominant tribe, which was Ephraim: which ten tribes had been already led into captivity by the Assyrians.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children] that is to say, all of all ages and sexes do run to idolatry To the Queen] that is to say, to the Sun; called in Hebrew by a name which is of the feminine gender. Others translate it, to the frame of Heaven, that is to say, to all the celestiall bodies, Jer. 8. 2. and 44. 17.

Jeremiah 7:19

Doe they provoke] that is to say, to whom doth the evil and dammage of this outragious wickednesse redound, to me, or to them?

Jeremiah 7:21

Put your] multiply your sacrifices as long as you will; I doe not accept of them, being offered with hypocrisie and impiety, as you offer them And eat] that is to say, thinke not to be sanctified by that part which you take according to the Law of my sacrifices of thanksgiving: for seeing they are not acceptable to me, those portions which you eat are but onely ordinary and profane food, see Hosea 8:13.

Jeremiah 7:22

Ispake not] I did not appoint holy ceremonies to be the whole substance of my service, as you hypocrites beleeve; but onely to bee sacred signes of faith in my promises, and obedience to my commandments, without which they are nothing.

Jeremiah 7:24

Imagination] the Italian, stubbornnesse; or imagination And went] like to resty beasts.

Jeremiah 7:28

Truth is perished] there is nothing now but falshood and hypocrisie in all their words and professions of pietie.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off] in token of great mourning, Job 1:20. Isaiah 15:2. On high places] see upon Jer, 3. 21. Of his wrath] namely, the generation, which is as it were the object and provocation of his wrath.

Jeremiah 7:31

The high places] namely, the Altars, Chappels, &c. set up to idols in that valley neer to Jerusalem, 2 King. 23. 10.

Jeremiah 7:32

Of slaughter] by reason of the great slaughter which the Chaldeans made there, who shall also bury dead bodies in heaps there, that all opinion of holinesse may be blotted out.