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Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 23:27

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Jeremiah23:27

27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour , as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal .

That is to forget me, and those things by which I have made my self known unto them, my Word, and my Works.

By their Dreams which they tell abroad every one to his Neighbour, as if they were Revelations which I had in their sleep made unto them, but they are indeed lies, and nothing but the deceits of their own hearts.

So that in effect they are Baals Priests; for as Baals Prophets, by publishing their pretended Revelations from Baal, seduced the people from the service and obedience of the true God; so these by telling their pretended dreames, seduced men from their obedience to God in what he revealed to them by the true Prophets, they agreed in the end, the seducing of the people from God, though they differed in the mean, the one pretending Revelations from Baal, the other from the true God by their Dreams.

Marginal references: Judg. 3.[illegible: 1 letter]. & 8.33, 34.

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