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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. 1. Hear me ye that follow after righteousness, and ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewen, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Vers. 1. Heare mee yee that follow after righteousnesse, and yee that seeke the Lord: looke vnto the rocke whence yee are hewen, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
1Now the Prophet exhorts the Jews not to faint, though they were few in number: for they were so humbled and diminished, that they seemed near their utter ruin: even as if they had been hopeless of any posterity to succeed them. He therefore brings them to their original; to teach them that howsoever they were but a small handful now, yet God was able to increase & multiply them. Then he commands them to look unto their father Abraham, who being but one man, yet grew into a great number, and God gave him children as the stars in the firmament: Gen. 15.5. (and as the sand upon the sea shore: Gen. 22.17.) Thence they might collect, that if God in so small a space was able so admirably to multiply their fathers, he was no less powerful to make them increase hereafter, seeing his power is no whit abated, nor his will changed.
1NOw the Prophet exhorts the Iewes not to faint, though they were few in number: for they were so humbled and diminished, that they seemed neere their vtter ruin: euen as if they had been hopelesse of any posteritie to succeed them. Hee therefore brings them to their originall; to teach them that howsoeuer they were but a small handfull now, yet God was able to increase & multiply them. Then he commands them to looke vnto their father Abraham, who being but one man, yet grew into a great number, and God gaue him children as the starres in the firmament: