John Trapp on Jeremiah 2:13-14

Ver. 13. For my people have committed two evils] Contrary to thoſe two good things that I have commanded them, viz. Depart from evil, and do good, Pſal. 34.14. Luſt doth firſt [non-Latin text not transcribed] draw a man from God, and then it doth [non-Latin text not transcribed] deceive him with a bait of the creature, Jam. 1.14.

They have forſaken me the fountain of living water] The all-ſufficient, ever-flowing, Dialog. 7. over-flowing well-ſpring of all welfare, Jam. 1.17. Triſmegiſt a Heathen could ſay Reſpicite O mortales, & reſipiſcite, & ad fontem vitae ricurrite. Look back O mortals and repent, and run back again to the fountain of life. Seneca alſo ſaith, that Sin is ſo foul a thing, that he would not commit it, though he could hide it from men, and get pardon of it of God: for that were to turn his back upon God the chife good, Comment. in Rom. 1.19. So little reaſon was there that Alex. Hales ſhould be called firſt Fons vitae, & then Doctor irrefragabilis. &c. How well might Bullinger ſay, that Seneca alone had left to poſterity more ſincere Divinity, then all the books of almoſt all the School men!

And hewed them out ciſterns, broken ciſterns] Such and no better are all Idols, humane helps, creature-comforts, friends, means, merits, &c. what are they all but ciſterns, that hold but muddy rain-water at beſt: but then, being broken ciſterns, riven veſſels, what hold they elſe but limum & lapides, mud and gravel? Such ciſternes therefore to hew out, what is it better then induſtrious folly, laborious loſſe of time? to ſay no worſe of it. Now Turpe est difficiles habere nugas: Et ſtultus labor est ineptiarum.

Servus emptitius.Ver. 14. Is Iſrael a ſervant] ſc. Bought with mony?

Is he a home-born ſlave] Verna, a ſlave by birth q. d. If he be either of the two, he may thank himſelf. He was my ſon, nay my Spouſe, if he could have kept him ſo: but he hath ſold himſelf to commit wickedneſſe, and I have therefore ſold him into the hands of the Caldeans. Loe this is the product of his forſaking me the fountain of living waters, &c.