Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

Vers. 3. ^*By an assured purpose thou wilt preserve perfect peace, because they trusted in thee.

Vers. 3. ^*By an assured purpose thou wilt preserue perfit peace, because they trusted in thee.

1. *Or, It is an assured thought: thou wilt keep peace, peace I say, for they trusted in thee.Or, It is an assured thought: thou wilt keepe peace, peace I say, for they trusted in thee.

Because the Hebrew word Jeiser signifies a thing made, created, or a thought, some translate thus, Thou wilt keep peace with an assured foundation: as if the Prophet meant, that those who continue constant in the tempests of this world, because they rest upon God, shall always continue in safety. Others turn it, Thou wilt keep peace by an assured purpose, which comes almost to the same sense, to wit, that those who have fixed their hearts upon God alone shall be happy and blessed at the last. For God promiseth not to be the protector of his Saints further then they quietly rest upon his good pleasure, without wavering. But because the Prophet in one word saith, It is a stable or steadfast decree, let the readers consider, if this be not more fitly applied unto God: so as the sense will be, The peace of the Church is built upon the eternal and immutable counsel of God. For the very principal point is, that the faithful stay themselves upon this heavenly decree, lest they should be shaken by so many changes as daily fall out in the world.

BEcause the Hebrue word Ieiser signifies a thing made, created, or a thought, some translate thus, Thou wilt keepe peace with an assured foundation: as if the Prophet meant, that those who continue constant in the tempests of this world, because they rest vpon God, shall alwaies continue in safetie. Others turne it, Thou wilt keepe peace by an assured purpose, which comes almost to the same sense, to wit, that those who haue fixed their hearts vpon God alone shall be happie and blessed at the last. For God promiseth not to be the protector of his Saincts further then they quietlie rest vpon his good pleasure, without wauering. But because the Prophet in one word saith, It is a stable or stedfast decree, let the readers consider, if this be not more fitlie applied vnto God: so as the sense will be, The peace of the Church is built vpon the eternall and immutable counsell of God. For the very principall point is, that the faithfull stay themselues vpon this heauenlie decree, lest they should be shaken by so many changes as dayly fall out in the world.