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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. 6. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie with the kid, and the calf and the lion, and the fat beast together, and a little child shall lead them. 7. And the cow and bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie together: and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock.
Vers. 6. The woolfe also shall dwell with the lambe, and the leopard shall lie with the kid, and the calfe and the lion, and the fat beast together, and a little child shall lead them. 7. And the cow and beare shall feede, their young ones shall lie together: and the lion shall eate straw like the bullocke.
He again describeth the qualities and conditions of those which shall be subdued unto Christ. For because there is a mutual correspondency between the King and the subjects, he sometimes ascends from the body to the head, and by and by from the head to the members: and we have already said,1 that Christ reigns not for himself, but for his faithful ones: whence it follows, that he frames our understandings to his will, by the operation of his holy Spirit. Yet notwithstanding the Prophet aims at a further thing: for it is as if he should promise an happy re-establishment to the world, describing a• it were the order which was at the beginning, before that woeful and sorrowful change happened by the revolt of man, under the which we are constrained to sigh at this day. Whence comes it that the brute beasts are so cruel, that such as have any strength give themselves to snatch, rent, and devour with violence? Certainly there should have bin no discord between God and the creatures, if they had continued steadfast in their first and pure original. When they rise up then one against another, and that the weakest have need of defence against the strongest, is it not a testimony of that confusion which is issued from the sin of man? Now seeing Christ is come to the end, that having abolished the curse, he might reconcile the world unto God; it is not without cause that the re-establishment of a perfect estate is attributed to him: as if the Prophet should say, that the golden world should return, during which time all felicity should flourish: that is to say, before the fall of man, and the change and ruin which followed thereupon.