A17640:1869
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.
Vers. 22. Now therefore be no mockers lest your bonds increase: for I have heard of the Lord of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
Vers. 22. Now therefore be no mockers lest your bonds increase: for I haue heard of the Lord of hosts a consumption, euen determined vpon the whole earth.
HE again advertiseth these wicked ones whom before he had called scorners,1 that their subtle devises, contempts, flouts and cavils should stand them in no stead, because all their fetches should vanish into smoke: and herewithall exhorts such unto repentance in whom there was yet left any hope of healing. For this cause he repeats the same thing often, to try if he could awaken them: for he affirms, if they will obstinately stand out, they shall do nothing else but more and more weave the web of their own ruin. Whereas some in stead of bonds, translate Chastisements, it agrees not well with the context, which contains in it a very apt similitude, borrowed from nets.2 For as the Fox that is taken in the net, or snare, fastens the knot the more whilst he endeavours with struggling to escape, and to save himself: so the wicked, the more they seek starting-holes, the further they work themselves fast in the snare. They will needs be running out of Gods reach, and will kick against the pricks,3 like resty jades, who endeavour by all means to throw their rider: but what get they in the end by such rebellion and stubbornness? nothing but the harder and heavier strokes.