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John Trapp on Jeremiah 35:6

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Jeremiah35:6

Ver. 6. We will not drink wine] This they were reſolved on: not becauſe they were perſwaded as Mahomets followers are, that in every grape there dwelt a devil: but becauſe Jonadab the ſon of Rechab their Progenitour, 2 Kings 10.15, had, two or three hundred years before, charged them to forbear; not thereby to eſtabliſh any new arbitrary ſervice or any rule of greater perfection of life (as the Papiſts miſalledge it in favour of Monkery and other will-worſhips and ſuperſtitious obſervances) but only as a civil ordinance,Hae leges vita potius erant honeſtatis quam ſalutis animae. about things external, the foundation whereof is laid in the word, which commendeth modeſty, humility, ſobriety, heavenly-mindedneſſe, &c.

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