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John Trapp on Jeremiah 2:11

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Jeremiah2:11

Ver. 11. Hath a Nation changed their Gods?] No: they are too pertinacious in their ſuperſtitions. Xenophon ſaith it was an oracle of Apollo, that thoſe Gods are rightly worſhipped which were delivered them by their anceſtours: and this he greatly applaudeth. Cicero alſo ſaith, that no reaſon ſhall ever prevaile with him to relinquiſh the religion of his fore-fathers.Heyl. Coſm. That Monarch of Morocco told an Engliſh Embaſſadour, that he had lately read St. Paul, and that he diſliked nothing in him but this, that he had changed his religion.

Which yet are no gods] Sed hominum figmenta & ludibria daemonum: when Hercules came into a Temple, and found the Image or ſtatue of Adonis in it, he pull'd it down with this expreſſion, Certe nil ſacri es, Sure thou art no god: the like may be ſaid of all Idols.

But my people have changed their glory] i. e. Their God of whom they might glory, ſaying, as Deut. 32.31. their Rock is not as our Rock, our enemies themſelves being Judges.

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