John Trapp on Jeremiah 23:27
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Jeremiah23:27
Ver. 27. Which think to cauſe my people to forget my Name] To drive them to Atheiſm, which ſometimes creepeth in at the back doore of a Reformation, by the ſlight of Seducers and their cunning craftineſſe, whereby they lye in wait to deceive. Our Church is at this day peſtered, with Atheiſts (who firſt have bin Seekers, Ranters, Antinomians, Antiſcripturiſts, &c.) and is even dark with them, as Egypt once was with the Graſhoppers. They ſeemed to ſpeak with judgement that ſaid formerly, As Antichriſtianiſm decreaſeth, ſo Atheiſm prevaileth: And they ſeem ſtill not to judge amiſſe that ſay, that the Jeſuites are acting vigorouſly by our Sectaries, to bring in Popery again (quaſi poſtilimino) upon us. It hath been long the opinion and fear of ſome grave Divines, that Antichriſt before his abolition, ſhall once again overflow the whole face of the Weſt, and ſuppreſſe the whole Proteſtant Churches: quod Deus avertat. Take we heed that theſe Sect-makers make us not forget Gods Name by their fopperies, as our fathers forgot his Name for Baal.
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