John Trapp on Jeremiah 22:30

Ver. 30. Write ye this man childleſſe] As to ſucceſſion in the royal dignity, as well as to ſucceſſe in his raign. The Septuagint render it, a man abdic[illegible: 1 letter]ted or preſcribed. This God would have to be written: that is to be put upon publick record, for the uſe of Poſterity.Ariri i. e. orbus vol ſolus, ſicut in deſerto myrica. Fuller. Our Chronicles tell us of John Dudley that great Duke of Northumberland, in King Edward the ſixths dayes, (who endeavoured by all means to engrand his poſterity, reaching at the Crown alſo, which coſt him his head) that though he had ſix ſons, all men, all married, yet none of them left any iſſue behind them. Be wiſe now therefore O ye Kings, &c. Serve the Lord with fear, &c.