A17640:4200
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. 11. And whom didst thou reverence or fear, seeing thou hast lied unto me, and hast not remembered me, neither set thy mind thereon? Is it not because I held my peace, and that of a long time? Therefore thou fearest not me.
Vers. 11. And whom didst thou reuerence or feare, seeing thou hast lied vnto mee, and hast not remembred mee, neither set thy minde thereon? Is it not because I held my peace, and that of a long time? Therefore thou fearest not me.
HE inveighs here more sharply against the Jews,1 in that they were destitute of all fear of God; howsoever they bragged of their holiness, and pretended a vain title of religion. For hypocrites not only flatter themselves in their superstitions, but the common people take them for petty gods: and for this cause they insolently advance themselves both against God and men, and set forth themselves with an impudent malapertness. But our Prophet pronounceth that there can be no true fear of God, where he is not purely worshipped, nor according to the precise rules of his holy word. For let men esteem the best they can of all their goodly superstitious devotions; yet all is but mere folly and impiety. Thus then he protests that they have no fear of God, nor no religion at all in them, though they gloried never so much of their painted sheathe. Nay, which was worse; by their ceremonies they made it manifest as by infallible testimonies, that they had no reverence nor awe of God in them. For the Lord testifies by Moses, that he would prove whether they loved him from the heart; in suffering false Prophets to bring in superstitions and idolatries: Deut. 13.3