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Jer_29:25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that [are] at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
Ver. 25. Because thou hast sent letters in thy name.] Such as Sadoletus, a Popish bishop, sent to Geneva in Calvin’s absence, to bring them back again to the obedience of the see of Rome; and as we have many from the Romish factors sent hither, to the seducing of not a few, a subtle and shrewd way of deceiving the simple.
And to Zephaniah.] The second under the high priest Seraiah, and successor likely to that Pashur {Jer_20:1} who was deposed for some misdemeanour, like as Dr Weston was here in Queen Mary’s days, put by all his Church dignities for being taken in bed with a harlot. {a} Of this Zephaniah, see 2Ki_25:18, his office was to judge of prophecies, and to punish such as he found to be false prophets.
And to all the priests.] Who were much too forward of themselves to bandy against God’s true prophets, {Jer_26:8} and did as little need by letter to be excited thereunto, as Bishop Bonner did to be stirred up to persecute Protestants; and yet to him were letters sent from King Philip and Queen Mary, complaining that heretics were not so reformed as they should be, and exhorting him to more diligence, {b} &c.
{a} Acts and Mon.
{b} Clarke’s Martyrol., 136.