A17640:2796
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. 19. The workman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in gold, or the goldsmith maketh silver plates. ⟨p. 410⟩20. Doth not the poor choose out a tree that will not rot for an oblation? He seeketh also unto him a cunning workman, to prepare an image that shall not be moved.
Vers. 19. The workeman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in gold, or the goldsmith maketh siluer plates. ⟨p. 410⟩20. Doth not the poore chuse out a tree that will not rot for an oblation? Hee seeketh also vnto him a cunning workman, to prepare an image that shall not be moued.
Because public consent in things is of great force, and that it is by and by received for a law, if a thing once please the §1multitude, the Prophet here fortifies the faithful against such an error. Here is therefore an occupation or prevention, as they call it; to wit, the Jews were to take heed how they stood amazed, in seeing idolaters so careful in their strife, who should have the gaudiest gods; for if they did so, they were in §2danger to be seduced by them. But therewithal he riseth up in an holy indignation against the desperate folly of men, who so boil in their superstitious imaginations, that every one will have an idol fit to please his §3own humour. He also shows that no state or condition of men are free from this impiety, but that the poor are as well guilty thereof as the rich: