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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 do ye lay out silver, and not for bread? And your labour without being satisfied? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat that which is good: and let your soul delight in fatness.
Vers. 2. Wherefore doe yee lay out siluer, and not for bread? And your labour without being satisfied? Hearken diligentlie vnto mee, and eate that which is good: and let your soule delight in fatnesse.
1He complains of mens folly and ingratitude, who either reject or disdain Gods bounty, in offering them all things liberally: and yet in the mean while, weary themselves much in following after sundry toys, which can bring them no profit at all. For the devil hath so bewitched them, that they had rather err in their forlorn by-paths, yea and to kill themselves for nothing, then to rest upon that grace which God presents before them. The experience of the time in which we live shows sufficiently, that the Prophet took not up this complaint only against them of his own nation, but against all men, of what time or age soever. For all the successors of Adam are carried away with this rage, namely, that whilst they pretend to seek the way to eternal life, they wholly err and go astray, and rather follow their vain opinions then the voice of God. The Prophet then complains not only of their slothfulness, who having utterly forgotten both God and themselves have no care at all of the spiritual life of their soul, (the numbers of which kind of persons are very many) but of those who seem to desire life, and yet neither keep nor observe the way or means to attain unto it, but wander in their own crooked paths.