A17640:3185
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. 10. Who hath made a God, or molten an Image, that is profitable for nothing?
HE now derides mens madness who presume to be the forgers of gods:1 for is it not an horrible and execrable thing that a mortal creature should dare to make himself a Creator? truly there is no reasonable man that would not greatly detest such a fury, and yet the most part are carried away with such a senseless rage even to make gods; and no admonition whatsoever can reclaim them. But they will answer me, that they have no such thought, and that we do them great wrong to accuse them of such folly. And the Papists at this day tell us that we belie them,2 and offer them injury in using this and the like testimonies of the Prophets against them: but they endeavour in vain to justify themselves by such cavils. For Isaiah very truly affirms that they are so bewitched, that they think they can make a god: in regard they attribute a divinity to blocks and stocks;3 as soon as they be once framed and polished, then they forthwith run a gadding after them, they vow unto them, they pray and bow their knees before them: in a word, they attribute ⟨p. 466⟩that to them which belongs only unto God.
HE now derides mens madnes who presume to be the forgers of gods:1