A17640:1771
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.
This verse contains a most sweet consolation in it. For the Prophet therein shows the incredible love which God bears to his people; albeit they be of a perverse and wicked spirit. God takes upon him here then (as we shall see anon) the person of a loving father greatly offended, who is angry with his son, yet so, that he must needs show how much he is inclined to pity and compassion, because the ardent love he bears to his son overcomes all his displeasure.1 In a word, he shows that God can not so hate his chosen, but that he therewithal will make them feel his fatherly love towards them, even in the middest of his corrections wherewith he visits them. The Scripture is wont to set forth God unto us many ways: for sometime §1it sets him before us as one whose wrath §2is kindled, and as one terrible to behold; again, in other places, showing nothing but mercy and love. Now why is he set forth thus diversly? Surely because we are not capable of his goodness. For this cause he is fain to show himself froward with such as are froward; and pure with the pure, as David shows, Psal. 18.26. For he manifests himself in such wise unto us, as we give him occasion. And if he show himself severe at any time, we may thank the hardness of our own hearts for it.
THis verse conteines a most sweet consolation in it. For the Prophet therein shewes the incredible loue which God beares to his people; albeit they be of a peruerse and wicked spirit. God takes vpon him heere then (as we shall see anon) the person of a louing father greatlie offended, who is angrie with his sonne, yet so, that he must needs shew how much he is inclined to pitie and compassion, because ye ardent loue he beares to his sonne ouercomes all his displeasure.1 In a word, he shews that God can not so hate his chosen, but that he therewithall will make them feele his fatherlie loue towards them, euen in the middest of his corrections wherewith he visits them. The Scripture is wont to set forth God vnto vs many waies: for sometime §1it sets him before vs as one whose wrath §2