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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.
Vers. 2. Wherefore came I, and there was no man? I called, and none answered: is mine hand so shortened that it can not help? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea: I make the floods desert: their fish rotteth for want of water, and dieth for thirst.
Vers. 2. Wherefore came I, and there was no man? I called, and none answered: is mine hand so shortened that it can not help? or haue I no power to deliuer? Behold, at my rebuke I drie vp the sea: I make the floods desert: their fish rotteth for want of water, and dieth for thirst.
IT may be the Prophet renders a reason here why the people having provoked the holy one of Israel to anger, hath not only pulled upon themselves a sea of evils, but are also worthily cut off by their own obstinacy from all hope of pardon and salvation. But I rather think the Lord proceeds yet further.1 For having showed that he had good cause given him to reject this people, who willingly chose rather to live a servile life then to be free, he adds, that it is none of his fault that they were not forthwith delivered. And as in the former verse he showed that the fault wholly rested in the Jews, so here he proves that their own malice was the cause why they grew old and putrefied in their miseries, for there wanted neither will nor power in the Lord to have holpen them if they had not stubbornly refused his grace and liberality. To shut it up in a word, Isaiah shows that both their entrance, and continuance in this calamity came only from their own fault, that he might free God from blame: and signifies, that the Jews did wickedly when they accused him to be the author of their miseries; or in complaining, that he came not soon enough to their succour.
IT may be the Prophet renders a reason heere why the people hauing prouoked the holy one of Israel to anger, hath not only pulled vpon themselues a sea of euils, but are also worthely cut off by their owne obstinacie from all hope of pardon and saluation. But I rather thinke the Lord proceeds yet further.