A17640:3452
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.
This is a prevention,1 whereby he admonisheth the Jews (as he often hath done heretofore) that their captivity was a scourge inflicted upon them by God: for if the stroke had come from the hand of another, then the remedy had not bin in him. That they might ⟨p. 498⟩be persuaded then that he which had smitten them was able to heal them, he wills them to impute it to the desert of their own sins that they were so hardly dealt withal; yet he exhorts them to hope well, in regard God was minded to keep a measure in chastising of them; and withal toucheth the cause why the Chaldeans should be overthrown, namely, that God, who is the just revenger of wrongs and injuries, hath much more just cause to revenge the outrages §1done to his people. Besides, in the first member he calls the Jews to repentance, in regard they had drawn all these evils upon §2their heads by their own offences. Next, he accuseth the Chaldeans, for taking up this occasion to exercise their cruelty, as if one should flea a child whom the father had only commanded to be whipped with a rod. Whence it follows that the Chaldeans insulted without cause, as if by their own power they had subdued and led the Jews captive, for they should be justly punished, in that they cruelly misused the prisoners whom they had vanquished.
THis is a preuention,1 whereby he admonisheth the Iewes (as he often hath done heretofore) that their captiuitie was a scurge inflicted vpon them by God: for if the stroke had come from the hand of another, then the remedie had not bin in him. That they might ⟨p. 498⟩be perswaded then that he which had smitten them was able to heale them, he wills them to impute it to the desert of their owne sinnes that they were so hardly dealt withall; yet he exhorts them to hope well, in regard God was minded to keepe a measure in chastising of them; and withall toucheth the cause why the Chaldeans should be ouerthrowne, namely, that God, who is the iust reuenger of wrongs and iniuries, hath much more iust cause to reuenge the outrages