Two and twenty lectures upon the five first chapters of Jeremiah With prayers annexed,…Tvvo and tvventie lectures vpon the fiue first chapters of Ieremiah With prayers annexed,…

The Prophet repeats that which he said before; namely, that the Jews are destinated to perdition by their obstinacy, in regard they had too often, and sundry ways provoked God to wrath against them: neither would they give place to his holy admonitions which he sent them by his servants the Prophets, in offering them grace and forgiveness, upon their true repentance. But whatsoever we read here in this verse, represents (as it were) to the life, that calamity which was now at hand, in regard the Prophet sets that before their eyes in figures, which could not be expressed in bare words. He saith, the voice declareth unto Dan: ¹now this was the utmost City bordering upon the North. And he said before, that from this part a plague should come; that is to say, from the North, because God had chosen the Chaldeans to be the executioners of his vengeance. For that cause he now saith, the voice may be heard from Dan: not that the army was now ready to give the onset upon the Jews: but Jeremiah speaks here by the spirit of prophecy, as if he represented the judgement before the eyes of the Jews, which yet they thought would never have come to pass. For we told you yesterday, that when God spares the hypocrites for a little space, they become the more obstinate, and do the more boldly insult ⟨p. 218⟩