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John Trapp on Jeremiah 17:18
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Ver. 18. Let them be confounded] A heavy imprecation: Let perſecutours take heed how they move Miniſters to make interceſſion to God againſt them, as Elias did againſt Iſrael, Rom. 11.2. as Jeremy here and elſewhere doth againſt the Jews; as the Chriſtian Churches did againſt Julian the Apoſtate. God will ſet to his Fiat.
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Let them be diſmaied, but let not me be diſmaied] Paveant illi & non paveam ego, So the Vulgar Latin hath it. But what a Lack-latin dolt was that Popiſh Prieſt, who alledged to his Pariſhioners this text to prove, that not he but they were to pave the Church-way? So Another of them, finding it written in the end of Paul's Epiſtles, Miſſa eſt, &c. bragged he had found the Maſſe in his bible. So another reading Joh. 1.44, Invenimus Meſſiam, made the ſame concluſion.
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