John Trapp on Jeremiah 36:1-2

CHAP. XXXVI.

Ver. 1. ANd it came to paſſe in the fourth year] This whole Chapter is hiſtorical and narrative, as alſo are ſome others beſides this. Hiſtorias lege, ne fias historia.

O[illegible: 1 letter]im liber erat inſtar mappae Geographicae.Ver. 2. Take thee a role of a book] i. e. A volume, as Iſa. 8.1. See the Note there.

And write therein] Jeremy had a command to write: ſo have not our empty Scripturients; whoſe rapes on the innocency of paper (as one phraſeth it) make the Preſſe almoſt execrable.Pineda. Iſta prurientis calami ſcabies potius eſt, quam ſcriptio.

All the words that I have ſpoken unto thee] The ſum and ſubſtance of all thy Sermons for theſe three and twenty years paſt: See chap. 1.2. and 25.3.