A17640:3404
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. 6. They draw gold out of the ⟨p. 493⟩bag, weigh silver in the balance, and hire a Goldsmith to make a god of, and they bow down and worship it. 7. They bear it upon the shoulders; they carry him and set him in his place: so doth he stand, and cannot remove from his place. Though one cry unto him, yet he cannot answer, nor deliver him out of his tribulation.
Vers. 6. They draw gold out of the ⟨p. 493⟩bag, weigh siluer in the ballance, and hire a Goldsmith to make a god of, and they bow downe and worship it. 7. They beare it vpon the shoulders; they carry him and set him in his place: so doth he stand, and cannot remoue from his place. Though one cry vnto him, yet he cannot answere, nor deliuer him out of his tribulation.
The Prophet told us the same thing before, which he now repeats again, that he might engrave this doctrine the more deeply in our minds: for superstition hath taken such rooting in our hearts, that it cannot be plucked up, unless God wholly alter and change our nature. All that we have heard against the folly of Idolaters, will by and by slip out of our memories, because we always retain in us some seeds of superstition, there being nothing to which we are more inclined, then to file ourselves in this dunghill. He saith then that to forge Idols, one provides stuff, another employs his art and skill to fashion it: & thus there must be two fathers of whom these Idols are begotten: first,1 the rich churl, who disburseth the gold, or silver: secondly, the Goldsmith, who gives a form unto them. And now behold a new forged god.