Commentary Upon Lamentations, Table
The Lamentations of Jeremie in a Table.
The first chapter cō taineth the
euils of the church and common weale in 11. verses
discoursed in eight verses by
question in foureverses how these miseries came vponupon the
Citie in generall
altred
made
solitarie. verse 1
tributarie.
was
populus.
famous.
how affected with it, the
thing
mourneth. verse 2
is not comforted.
cause her friends
forsake her.
are against her.
people in particular
their outward estate, the
thing
flight. verse 3
finding no rest.
cause
at home
affliction.
seruitude.
abroade, their foes
preuaile.
take them at the vantage.
the ouerthrow of religion in regarde of the
place, that is desolate, for that
none come. verse 4
the gates are shut vp.
parties
speciall
priestes.
virgins.
generall all professors.
answer in 4. verses their sinnes effecting
externallie in regarde of
the aduersaries, the
thing they
rule ouer them. verse 5
enioye it quietly.
cause
Gods correction.
their sinnes.
themselues
generally
goe into captiuitie. verse 6
lose their beautie.
particularly her princes wanting
foode.
strength.
internally in
themselues remēbring their
griefe. verse 7
losse of
pleasant things.
people.
God
reiecting them. verse 8
working in
others to despise them.
thēmselues, griefe and sorrowe.
praied for to be amended in 3. verses conteining a
confession of
the cause, their sinne not acknowledged. verse 9
their miserie, in
falling so sodainelie.
wanting comforters.
petition
what, that God would
regarde.
consider.
why, the
Church is spoyled. verse 10
people
famished. verse 11
made vile.
cōtestation in 11. verses see * * Contestation or calling of her estate vntounto the cōsideration of
other nations in 8. verses, shewing that her punishmēt
is not of them in 4. verses by
generall consideration of her sorrow, being
greater then of any other, 12. verses.
from God.
particular by diuers allegories in the 13. 14. 15. verses, shewing the worke of
Gods own hand, what
it is, a
fier in her bones, 13. verse.
snare to her feete.
effecteth
generallie, ouerthrowe.
particularlie in her
desolation.
heauinesse.
Gods instruments
whence their strēgth is; from God,
remēbring her sinnes, 14. verse.
taking her strength from her.
what they doe
generallie, keepe her vnderunder.
particularly, in
plaine termes
tread her vnderunder, 15. verse.
breake her strength.
borrowed speech, tread the presse, &c
ought to bepitied of them in 4. verses containing her miseries in
generall
expressed
want comforts, 16. verse.
hauehave desolate children.
aggrauated by that which
is done of
them seeking and not finding help, 17. verse.
God making all men their foes.
is
they are seperated, as, &c. vers. 18.
God hath done it iustlie.
particular in respect of
sex, the captiuitie of
virgins.
young men.
condition
friends
called vponupon, 19. verse.
deceiued her.
Church gouerners
who
Priests.
Elders.
what they doe,
seeke foode.
die in the Citie.
God in 3. verses, a
Confession of their
miserie, 20. verse.
aduersaries crueltie.
petition to
be deliuered, 21. 22. verses.
punish the aduersaries.
The secōd Chapter containeth an
expostulation in 10. verses for their miseries,
generall vponupon the whole kingdome, in 7. verses,
propounded in the 1. verse.
thing, she is
darkned, 1. verse.
throwne downe.
causes, Gods
anger.
forgetting of her.
declared in respect of the ouerthrow of the
Common weale in 4. verses,
remouing her
glorie in
building, 2. verse.
rulers.
strength, 3. verse.
laying on them
his angrie hand, 4. verse.
destruction, 5. verse.
religion in 2. verses,
Circumstances, 6. verse.
place.
time.
thing
Altar, 7. verse.
Sanctuarie.
particular vpō the citie, in 3. verses.
thing
walles, 8. verse.
gates, 9. verse.
effect
decay of
lawes.
prophesie.
sorrow in
old, 10. verse.
young.
instruction in 12. verses containing the
entrance in 2. verses.
the sorrow of the Prophet, 11. verse.
cause in
generall, the miserie that befalleth the people.
particular, the infants
ouerthrowe in the streetes.
manner how
calling to their mothers for food, 12. verse.
dying in their laps.
thing see β β thing
the aggrauating of the euils in 5. verses.
that no euill is like this, 13. verse.
there is no helpe for it
on earth
from themselues.
from others: for their foes reproach by
gestures, 15. 16. verses.
words.
from God: for he
performeth his threatnings, 17. verse.
strengthneth the enemie.
counsel of the Prophet,
how to come to God, by shewing
the blasphemie of the aduersaries, 18. verse.
their owne repentance, in
weeping.
crying for helpe, 19. verse.
to pray to him
expostulating with God
an intreatie to consider what he doth, 20. verse.
a question, mouing him to pitie.
declaring their miserie in the
decay of all estates, 21. verse.
increasing of their griefe, 22. verse.
The third Chapter, cōtaining a
complaint in verses 41 consisting of an
expostulatiō to verse 19. & sheweth
Gods heauie hand vponupon them in 13. verses.
the effect of it in
the foes verse 14.
them, in
borrowed termes 15. 16. verses.
plaine termes 17. 18. verses.
report of the spirituall battaile, the
strife from the 19. to 22. verses.
victore
the thing from 22. to 40. verses, respecting
Gods people
Particularly these, by experience, to 25. verse.
generally all that bee lowly, to 31. verse.
God himselfe, his
nature and louelove to his, to 37. verse.
power to 40. verse.
vse of it to
examine our selues
turne to God
verse 40. 41.
praier containing a
Confession of
their innes in the 42 verse.
the iugments felt for them to verse 55.
Gods doings towards them from 43. to 46.
being farre from hearing them from 43. to 45.
making them odious verse 46.
effect of it
particularlie
the foes speake euill 46.
they
feare 47.
weepe continually from 48. to 51.
generally
they are grieued 51.
the foes, what they
do
seeke occasions 52.
vse al extremitie 53.
cause them (as it were) to despaire 54.
petition for
deliuerance to the godly
their faith and his former mercies verse 55. to 59.
the peruersnesse of the foes 59.
ouerthrow to the wicked
causes, to 64.
thing, to the end of the Chapter.
The fourth Chapter containeth
A discourse of the euils that were vponupon the Iewes in 20. verses, by
questiō, expostulating the ouerthrowe of al things in 10. vers. in
generall in the 1. & 2. verses the
Temple destroyed verse 1.
rulers despised 2. verse.
particular from the 3. to 11. verse
expressed from 3. to 9. verse,
in it selfe from 3. to 6. verse, their estate in
particular, in 3 & 4. verses, the
mothers crueltie in 3. verse.
infants hungrie in 4. verse.
generall, aboundance turned into penurie, 5. verse.
by exemplification in 6. 7. 8. verses, by
comparison, the punishment of Sodome, 6. verse
instance of the Nazarites 7. 8. verses, who
were most pure 7. verse.
are blacke 7 8.
aggrauated in 9. and 10. verses by
comparing death by the sworde to be lesse then by famine 9. verse.
considering how the mothers did eate their children, 10. verse.
answer in 10. verses, shewing the cause
efficient God in the 11. & 12. verses, who
being angrie, 11. verse.
did that which man would not hauehave beleeued, 12. verse.
mouing, their sinnes from 13. to 21. verse,
past frō 13. to 17. verse,
set downe in the 13. and 14. verses.
condemned and reuenged by their aduersaries in 15. and 16. verses.
present their obstinacie frō 17. to 21.
continuing in that vaine confidence of resting vponupon men in 17. verse.
not being driuen to seek to God, from 18. to 21. by
their foes in 18. 19.
preuailing, 18. verse.
being expert, 19. vers.
their king ouerthrowne, 20. verse.
The end of all these euils in 2. verses, the
ouertthrow of the wicked in the 21. verse.
deliuerance of the godlie in the 22. verse.
The fift Chapter cōtaineth a
patheticall expostulation in 16. verses, expostulating their miseries in
generall frō 1. to the 11. verse,
propounded to God to consider of in 1. verse.
exemplified from 2. to 11. verse, in respect of their
Countrey in 2. 3. and 4. verses.
possessed by straungers, 2. verse.
being vnprofitable to thē in 3. & 4. vers. for
protection, 3. verse.
maintenance, 4. verse.
aduersaries from 5. to 11. verse, what they
do
expressed 5. and 6. verses.
wearie them with persecution, 5. verse.
cause them to begge, 6. verse.
amplified in 7. and 8. verses, by
lessening their fathers punishments, 7. verse.
… the greatnesse of their slauerie, 8. verse.
cause them to
doe, make them liue in continuall danger of death, 9. verse.
appeare vgly and loathsome, in 10. verse.
particular from 11. to 18. verse,
vponupon whom, women, maides, Princes, Elders, young men and children, from 11. to 15. verse.
what is wrought by the same in 15 and 16. verse, decay of
ioy and gladnesse, 15▪ verse.
prosperitie, 16. verse.
prayer in 7. verses, containing a
confession in 16. 17. and 18. verses, of
sinne, 16. verse.
punishment for sinne, in 17. and 18. verses.
calamities vponupon their outward estate, 17. verse.
desolation of the Church, 18. verse.
petition from 19. to the end to be
freed in the 19. and 20. verses,
of whom it is desired, of God, 19. verse.
what it is, 20. verse.
restored
whereunto, 21. verse.
why, 22. verse.
The occasion and argument of the Lamentations.
WHether this excellent booke was made vponupon occasion of the death of Iosiah, being (as it were) the beginning of Gods heauie hand vponupon the Iewes for their contempt and abuse of his worde so long foretolde by the Prophets, which caused this seruant of God so exceedingly to lament as is mentioned, 2. Chron. 35. 25, &c. Or rather vponupon the ouerthrowe of the Citie Ierusalem, and burning of the temple therein; it needeth not greatly to be inquired, seeing it is euident that it was indighted by the spirit of God, and penned by the Prophet Ieremy, to drawe the Church of God into a serious consideration of their sinnes that caused the same, and to true and vnfained repentance, earnestly praying vntounto the Lord to remooue his angrie countenance from them, and to turne his gracious fauour as in former time vntounto them.