A17640:824
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. 22. For though thy people, O Israel, were as the sand of the sea; yet should but a remnant be saved. The consumption determined shall abound in justice.
Vers. 22. For though thy people, O Israel, were as the sand of the sea; yet should but a remnant be saued. The consumption determined shall abound in iustice.
He excludes hypocrites from their foolish confidence: for it was enough in their conceit for them that they were the children of that holy personage Abraham according to the flesh only: and under this bare and naked pretext of their original, they would be thought most holy. In the mean while he exhorts the faithful to patience; to the end they might learn with a meek and quiet spirit, to wait for this discomfiture and diminution of their multitude; to the end that when it should come to pass, they should not be troubled at it as at some new thing. He comforts them then for fear they should not bear such a wasting patiently; because thereout the Lord was purposed to gather a small ⟨p. 114⟩remnant at the least. The Hebrew verb signifies To finish, and sometimes also To consume. The latter signification agrees best, for he calls this diminishing of the people, a Consumption, and that Accomplished: and herein he speaks excessively (as they say) for it would be a thousand to one that they were not all destroyed, and therefore a very few should escape.
HEe excludes hypocrits from their foolish confidence: for it was enough in their conceit for them that they were the children of that holy personage Abraham according to the flesh onely: and vnder this bare and naked pretext of their originall, they would be thought most holy. In the meane while he exhorts the faithfull to patience; to the end they might learne with a meeke and quiet spirit, to wait for this discomfiture and diminution of their multitude; to the end that whē it shold come to passe, they should not be troubled at it as at some new thing. He comforts them then for feare they should not beare such a wasting patiently; because therout the Lord was purposed to gather a small