took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiahs neck] Chap. 27. 2.
brake i] Thus wicked wretches, led by ambition and covetise, and desirous to please Prince and people, care not what rage and outrage they break forth into; to justifie and confirm such lyes, as they broach against knowledge and conscience, and to maintain their own estimation. So 1 King. 22. 11, 24.