A17640:1733
Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah
A commentary upon the prophecy of Isaiah. By Mr. John Calvin. Whereunto are added four tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.A commentary vpon the prophecie of Isaiah. By Mr. Iohn Caluin. Whereunto are added foure tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston, 1609
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
for albeit we begin to feel the fruits of this consolation when we enter into the Church, yet we wholly enjoy not the full measure thereof till the day of the resurrection be come, wherein all things shall be perfectly restored,1 in which respect it is also called the day of restoration, Act. 3.21. Here then we see the only remedy to mitigate the bitterness of all our griefs, to wit, even to turn our eyes to the beholding of this day, in which God shall separate the good from the bad.
for albeit we begin to feele the fruits of this consolation when we enter into the Church, yet we whollie enioy not the full measure thereof till the day of the resurrection be come, wherein all things shall be perfectlie restored,1 in which respect it is also called the day of restauration, Act. 3.21. Here then we see the only remedie to mitigate the bitternes of all our griefes, to wit, euen to turne our eies to the beholding of this day, in which God shall separate the good from the bad.
- 1The day of resurrection, the day of our refreshing. Mat. 25.32.
As death then naturally devours and destroys all the race of Adam, so the miseries to which they are subject in this world are forerunners of the same death.1 Their life therefore is but a kind of death; but in regard that by the redemption wrought by Christ the curse of God is taken away both in these beginnings of death, as also in death it self: