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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.
1The Prophet hitherunto hath showed at large how mighty the Lord is to save his people: now he saith that all the miracles which were wrought in the first redemption, §1were nothing in comparison of those that §2should be effected hereafter: that is to say; the glory of this second deliverance should be so rare & excellent, that it should darken the first: not as if the Jews were to forget so great a benefit; for the memory thereof worthily deserved to be celebrated from age to age, even to the worlds end: and as the Lord had commanded, was to stand upon perpetual record. For in the preface of the Law, Exod. 20.2. thus he speaks; I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. He also commanded the fathers to be often recording of it to their children, and to continue the remembrance of it to their successors. This therefore must be taken by way of comparison: as in Jeremiah; Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall say no more, The Lord which brought the children out of Egypt: but the Lord lives, which hath brought the posterity of Jacob out of the land of the North, and out of all the coasts of the earth, whereinto he hath scattered them: