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XXXI. 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

But this shall be my covenant of grace with them, under the Gospel, which shall bring with it the power of regeneration, and salvation by Christ: in those days of mine Evangelical Church, I will work mightily in the hearts of my people, and will bring them, by the inoperation of my Spirit, to the obedience of my law; which, being formerly written in tables of stone, shall now be engraven so in the hearts of men, that they shall, out of love and willing obedience, frame themselves thereunto.

XXXI. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD.

And there shall be so clear a light of my Gospel shining forth unto men, as that they shall not so much need the help of others' instruction, in the grounds and principles of religion; but shall be enlightened from God, with a competent measure of knowledge, even from the meanest and weakest novice in Christianity, unto the greatest proficient therein.

XXXI. 35 And the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night.

Hath ordained a due, constant, and regular motion of the moon and stars, for a light by night.

XXXI. 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

If that course, which I have set in nature, for the motions of the ' heavens, may be altered, then may it be possible for my Church to fail upon earth.

XXXI. 37 If heaven &c. then I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

There can be nothing more impossible, than that I should utterly cast off my people, notwithstanding their ill deservings of me, so as that not a remnant of them should be preserved.

XXXI. 38, 39, 40 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD, from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner: &c. And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horsegate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD.

The days shall come, saith the Lord, that this city of Jerusalem, which yet stands in her full glory, shall, after the rasing and destruction of it, be fully built up again, in all the whole compass of it, from the one end to the other; and, which is thereby typified, my Evangelical Church shall be built upon the ruins of the Jewish, in a complete form, and be wholly consecrated to the Lord.

XXXII. 5 There shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD, There shall he be, until the time that I shall put an end to his captivity by death.

XXXII. 8 Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth: it is true indeed, that the enemy is now in possession of it, so as no man may, or dare look forth towards it; yet, out of an assurance that it shall in due time be freed and redelivered, do thou give me money for it, beforehand; since thou art the next of kin, and the purchase pertains unto thee by the law.

XXXII. 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeer shekels of silver.

And accordingly, I bought the field of Hanameel, my cousin-ger, man, that was at Anathoth, and paid him the money for it.

XXXII. 14 And this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

Lay up these evidences sure, in an earthen vessel, where they may be kept from rotting, for a long time; as those, whereof I shall have most certain use hereafter for this land shall be in due time repossessed.

XXXII. 18 And recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them.

Thou punishest the sins of the fathers, in those children, wherein they do still live; who being as it were parts of their parents, it cannot be but their parents must justly, in temporal things, suffer in them.

XXXII. 24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it.

Behold those mounts, which are cast up for the siege of Jerusalem.

XXXII. 33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face.

They have utterly neglected me, and wilfully refused to give ear and respect to that, which I delivered unto them.

XXXII. 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

They have set up their abominable altars to their idols, in the temple which is consecrated to my name, to defile it.

XXXII. 39 I will give them one heart, and one way.

I will unite them, both in their judgments, and in their affections, and in their practices; so as they shall happily agree together, both to think and to do the same things.

XXXII. 44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, &c.

There shall be an ordinary course of bargains and purchases; and

all those forms of legal transactions, which are wont to be in use upon these occasions.

XXXIII. 13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.

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In those cities which are built upon the hills, and those which are low built in the vallies, even in all the region of Judea and Samaria, shall be a peaceable habitation of my people; so as the shepherd may there, in their fields and pastures, securely feed his flocks, and tell their number at his own leisure.

XXXIII. 14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the children of Israel and to the house Judah.

Behold, the days draw on, wherein I will perform those gracious promises of mercy and deliverance, which I have made to my peo ple of Judah and Israel.

XXXIII. 15 At that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; &c. See Isaiah iv. 2.

XXXIII. 17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.

He, that is the true Son of David, shall evermore sit in the throne, and rule and reign over his Church, to the end of the world.

XXXIII. 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man be fore me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

Neither shall there be any interruption of that perfect priesthood, which shall be performed, by that All-sufficient Mediator, who shall offer up a full sacrifice to his Father, and present our prayers and spiritual sacrifices unto God.

XXXIII. 20 If ye can break my covenant of day and night, &c. See chap. xxxi. verse 36.

XXXIV. 5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee.

But thou shalt die of thy fair death, not violent, but natural; and shalt be honourably buried, after a princely manner, with store of sweet odours burnt about thy coffin, and in the vault where thou shalt be laid.

XXXIV. 8 After that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them.

After that king Zedekiah, being admonished of this point of the law, had dealt with the people effectually, to dismiss those of their own nation out of their service, in the end of the seventh year, according to the prescript of the law; and proclamation was made hereof accordingly.

XXXIV. 10 Then they obeyed, and let them go.

They yielded for the time, and gave way for the performance of this edict; and gave freedom to their Jewish servants.

XXXIV. 11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them in subjection for servants and for handmaids.

But afterward they repented of their good act, and injuriously recalled their lately dismissed servants and handmaids, into their former servitude.

XXXIV. 17 Behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine.

Behold, I do give full liberty to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine, to seize upon you.

XXXIV. 18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof, &c.

Ye know, ye made a covenant with me, in that ancient solemn manner, that was used by your father Abraham; wherein you, dividing the calf into halves, passed between the two halves of it, wishing, by way of execration, to be so divided, if you did not observe this promise and covenant of yours: and now, ye have palpably broken this part of your covenant with me; therefore, I will give the transgressors hereof into the hand of their enemies. XXXIV. 21 Into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

Into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which is now, for the time, departed from your siege, to go up against Egypt, but, however ye have vainly imagined, shall return to your cost. See chap. xxxvii. verse 5.

XXXV. 4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, inte the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, &c.

And I brought some of the house of Jonadab the son of Rechab, into the court of the temple, and led them into one of those chambers, which are appointed therein for the priests and Levites; even into the lodging of one of the holiest of the priests, next to the chamber of the chief governor of the temple.

XXXV. 5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

And, in that holy place, I did set before those sons of Rechab, pots of wine, and cups; and as of my own motion, wished them to drink wine.

XXXV. 6 For Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever. For Jonadab the son of Rechab, three hundred years ago, charged all us, that should come of his loins, Ye shall drink no wine, neiye, nor your sons for ever.

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XXXV. strangers.

That ye may live many days in the land where ye be

That ye may live long in the land where your forefathers, the Kenites, were, and ye now are strangers.

XXXVI. 5 I am shut up. See chap. xxxvii. verse 4.

I must keep close, upon the command of the Lord, and not stir forth.

XXXVI. 22 Now the king sat in the winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. Now the king sat in the winter-house; for it was in the month of November, when the season grew to be somewhat cold; and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

XXXVI. 26 But the LORD hid him.

But the Lord raised up means of hiding and concealing him from the fury of king Jehoiakim,

XXXVII. 1 Instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.

Instead of Jechoniah the son of Jehoiakim, who took upon him to reign, for three months, and then yielded to the king of Babylon. XXXVII, 12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

Then Jeremiah the prophet, taking the advantage of the removal of the Chaldean army from the siege of Jerusalem, went forth, with the rest of his countrymen, to go into his native place, in the tribe of Benjamin, to live apart there, for a time.

XXXVII. 13 Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

Thou hast hitherto set out the power and future success of the Chaldees, and now thou art secretly slinking away to them.

XXXVII. 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker's street, until all the bread of the city were spent.

Then Zedekiah the king, being moved with some compassion towards Jeremiah, commanded him to a larger custody, where he had some more liberty; and gave charge, that he should haye, notwithstanding the extreme scarcity of the time, every day a piece of the ordinary and common bread of the city allowed unto

him.

XXXVIII. 4 He weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them.

He discourageth the soldiers within the city, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that they have no heart to make resistance unto the king of Babylon.

XXXVIII. 5 For the king is not he that can do any thing against you.

For my power, you see, is grown into disregard amongst you: you have the law in your own hands.

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