A17640:742
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. 18. For* wickedness burneth as a fire; it devoureth the briars and the thorns, and will kindle in the thick places of the forrest: and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Vers. 18. For* wickednesse burneth as a fire; it deuoureth the briars and the thornes, and will kindle in the thicke places of the forrest: and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.
- *Or, unbelief.Or, vnbeliefe.
The Prophet taxeth the wicked, who make a trade of discharging themselves of their faults to lay them upon God. For either they seek starting holes by persuading themselves that they are innocent, or they extenuate their sins, if they be convinced; as if God were too rigorous. And the truth is, that they will never confess God to be just in correcting them, unless it be by constraint: and albeit they dare not excuse themselves openly, yet they fret and grumble inwardly. The Prophet minding to repress such a stubbornness, compares the calamities to a fire; but he adds, that the impiety of men is the wood and fuel which kindles Gods wrath: as if he should say, They all of them cry out and complain that the wrath of God burns fiercely, and yet they consider not in the mean while, that they kindle and inflame the same by their sins, as with bellows, and that these sins do add new matter daily to this fire: yea even they themselves burn and consume inwardly in the fire of their iniquities.