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Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially…Commentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially…
Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially for the use of the family of the right honourable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glass, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by considering the text, meditating the sense thereof, and by prayerCommentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially for the vse of the family of the ryght honorable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glasse, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by consideryng the text, meditatyng the sense therof, and by prayer
London: printed by John Daye, 1570London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1570
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¶ To the Reader.
Good Reader, blame not this thing I beseech thee, which I have done in this plain and rude sort, for the commodity of the simple and unlearned: whom I did think unable to comprehend in their minds, and to apply unto their consciences these learned Commentaries of this divine Calvin, unless they were something abridged and the expositions of the Hebrew words, which would have been something dark in our lam guage, omitted. Wherefore, as I do profess my self to be one of his scholars, and do praise God for the same more then for any earthly matter: so do I not of arrogance alter or change any thing in his writings. But because I do know right well that if he were alive him self, he would suffer all his doings to be applied to the commodity of the Church: therefore now when I do offer his travails to the unlearned of our English nation, who are desirous of the same, I do so present them as may be most comfortable to their conscience, and least tedious to such simple persons as are not able to comprehend all his ⟨image 3⟩large and learned discourses. And this abridgement do I make but in the two first Chapters and in few places besides: putting into print at this present, the one half of the book of Daniel, containing the first vj. Chapters, which do treat of the particular histories wrought by God in his time, and therefore seemeth unto me far diverse from the latter vj. Chapters: wherein he prophecieth of all things that should come unto the elect people until the coming of Messiah, and toucheth also some things that be general unto all, even to the end of the world. The which latter part also I do mean (by Gods grace) to publish for the instruction of our nation in these obscure Prophecies, if I can perceive this former travail to be well accepted of the godly, which is my desire, and whom I do exhort in the Lord, to read the Scriptures attentively, to meditate the same diligently, to pray continually.