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0 ! The Prophet Jeremiah borne in the citie of Anathoth in the countrey of Beniamin, was the sonne of Hilkah, whome some thinke to be he that founde out the boke of the Lawe, and gaue it to Josiah. This Prophet had excellent giftes of God, and moste euident reuelations of prophecie, so that by the commandement of the Lord he began very yong to prophecie, that is, in the thirtenth yere of Josiah, and continued eightene yere vnder the said King, and thre moneths vnder Jehoahaz, and vnder Jehoiakim eleuen yeres, and thre moneths vnder Jehoiachim, and vnder Zedehiah eleuen yeres vnto the time that they were caryed away into Babylon. So that this time amounteth to aboue fourty yere, besides the time that he prophecied, after the captiuitie. In this boke he declareth with teares, and lamentation the destruction of Jerusalem, and the captiuitie of the people, for their idolatrie, couetosnes, subtiltie, crueltie, excesse, rebellion, and contempt of Gods worde, and for the consolacion of the Church, reueileth the iuste time of their deliuerance. And here chierly are to be considered thre things. First the rebellion of the wicked, which waxe more stubberne and obstinate, when the Prophetes do admonish them moste plainely of their destruction. Next how the Prophetes and ministers of God oght not to be discouraged in their vocation, thogh they be persecuted & rigorously handeled of the wicked for Gods cause. And thirdely, thogh God shewe his juste judgement against the wicked, yet wil he euer shewe himself a preseruer of his church, and when all meanes seme to mans judgement to be abolished, then wil he declare himself victorious in preseruing his.