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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. 7. For the Lord God will help me, therefore I shall not be confounded: therefore have I set my face as a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Vers. 7. For the Lord God wil help me, therefore I shall not be confounded: therefore haue I set my face as a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
1Here the Prophet shows from whence this great magnanimity proceeds, wherewith he and other the servants of God were endued to sustain the violence of all comers, namely, the help of God: for by faith therein Isaiah affirms, that he hath hardened his face as a flint against all the injuries of the ungodly. Having then with a stout courage, wherewith he is endued, set light by all his adversaries, he also labours to draw others to the same constancy with him; and (as in a glass) describes to the life what the state and condition of all Ministers of the word is, and shall be. For thus he would turn them from the love of the world, that they might give themselves wholly unto God, and to fix their eyes altogether upon him, for there is no combat so sharp, in which they shall not be more then Conquerors under the leading of such a Captain.
1HEere the Prophet shewes from whence this great magnanimitie proceeds, wherwith he and other the seruants of God were indued to sustaine the violence of all commers, namely, the help of God: for by faith therein Isaiah affirmes, that he hath hardned his face as a flint against all the iniuries of the vngodly. Hauing then with a stout courage, wherewith he is endued, set light by all his aduersaries, he also labors to draw others to the same constancie with him; and (as in a glasse) describes to the life what the state and condition of all Ministers of the word is, and shall be. For thus he would turne them from the loue of the world, that they might giue themselues whollie vnto God, and to fixe their eies altogether vpon him, for there is no combat so sharp, in which they shall not be more then Conquerors vnder the leading of such a Captaine.