A17640:4659
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. 10. But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against him.
Vers. 10. But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore hee was turned to be their enemie, and he fought against him.
The Prophet now descends to the second member,1 in which he shows that the Lord was turned to be the adversary of his children, because they rebelled, and turned back from him; as if the people (in a word) should thus have objected, God showed many tokens of his loving kindness to our fathers for a long time together; wherefore taste we not of the same also? Is he now of another mind. No, God forbid. But we our selves by our disloyalty, have been rejected: yea, we have thereby repelled and put back his benefits from us: Jer. 5.25. And yet the Prophet condemns not only the men of his age, but those also of the ages before. For we see that under the conduct of Moses himself, they rebelled and murmured against God, Exod. 17.2. Numb. 20.3. Hence it came, that God who tenderly loved them, as it is in vers. 7. became their enemy, by their own rebellion. Are they punished for their iniquities then? let them thank themselves for it. For the Lord is inclined to nothing more then to show mercy, neither is any thing more acceptable unto him,2