Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 23:22

22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words , then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings .

These false Prophets did not Prophesie without the Approbation of the Rule[illegible: 2 letters] of the Ecclesiastical state amongst the Iews in their corrupt estate, but so they might, and yet not be sent of God. The Judgment of a Divine Mission for the Revelation of Gods Mind unto people, must not be meerly from their External Mission (which yet they ought to have in a Church that is in order) but from the faithful discharge of their Ministry. Those whom God sends, and who are truly acquainted with his Counsels, will cause his people to hear, not their own conceits, and inventions, but the Word of the Lord. God sendeth none upon any other errand, but to reveal his Will, and tell his Mind unto people.

Then, saith the Prophet, they should have turned them from their evil way, that is, they would have made this their scope, business and end, to turn Sinners from their sinful wayes, and though possibly their labour would not have had so good an effect upon all, yet they would have had an effect upon some to turn them from their evil doings.