...in and hasten it ; and therefore it is spoken of as effecting the things it speaks : as in Jer. i. 10 ; See, I have this day set thee over the nations,...destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant. So, Ezek. xliii. 3 ; and Hos. vi. 5. Therefore despise it not. Spiritual judgments are the heaviest...

...the city. So also in Jeremiah ; ' And the Lord said unto me, behold I have put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and...destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant;' that is, to foretell these events. Again, in Isaiah; ' Go make the heart of this people fat, and make...

...same doctrine. Innocent III. applied to the Pope the tenth verse of the first chapter of Jeremiah. "See, I have this day, set thee over the nations and...destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant." This Pope also practised this doctrine by deposing the emperor Otho IV. In the year 1099, Pope Paschall...

...vision lhat I saw when I came to destroy the city ;' ie to foretell its destruction. Jer. 1. 10, ' I have this day set thee over the nations and over...destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant ;' ie to predict that all these things shall be done. Jer. 15. 1, ' Cast them (this people) out of...

...shalt speak. 8 Be not afraid of their faces : for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. 9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth...destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. 11 H Moreover, the word of the Loitu came unta me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said,...

...to bring in and hasten it; and therefore spoke of, as effecting the things it speaks ; as in Jer. i. 10, " See, I have this day set thee over the nations,...destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant :" Ezek. xliii. 3, " And it was according to the appearance of the vision, which I saw when 1 came...

...himself. * These notions of Gregory seem to have been founded on that passage in Jeremiah which says, —" See, I have this day set thee over the nations and...destroy, and to throw 'down, to build, and to plant." — Ch. i. 10. f The authenticity of these famous Dictates is so ably assailed and defended by Baronius...

...apposite predictions, applied to the Roman pontiff the word of the Lord by Jeremiah i. 10, " See, I have set thee over the nations, and over the kingdoms,...destroy, and to -throw down, to build, and to plant." Innocent IV. held the emperor Frederick II. as his vassal, and, in virtue of his occupying the place...

...God came to the prophet Jeremiah, a man of like passions with ourselves, "See," it was said to him, "I have this day set thee over the nations, and over...and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, and to plant and to build;" so tremendous was the strength that dwelt in a prophet's tongue: yet was...

...indignation of princes, priests, or people. The commission of Jeremiah was not limited to his own countrymen. "I. have this day set thee over the nations and over...destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant." Judaism was only preparatory to Christianity : it was fitted but for a small territory. It would not...