Four sermons of Master John Calvin entreating of matters very profitable for our time,…Foure sermons of Maister Iohn Caluin entreating of matters very profitable for our time,…

As I have said already the Prophet continueth his sentence minding to signify, that God shall gather people together of all Countries of the world, too incorporate them into his Church, as new burgesses and Citizens. Albeit that he use an other manner of speaking, it is because strangers shall be reputed among the holy people of GOD, as if they were descended of the stock of Abraham. He had said in the former verse, that the Chaldeans and Egyptians should yield themselves to become of the household of the church-that the Ethiopians, Philistines, & the men of Tyre, should desire too be enrolled in the number of his Children: now he addeth for confirmation of his sentence that the troupe shall be great and infinite, too replenish the City of Jerusalem, which for a time was desolate, and to make it most populous: or rather which had been inhabited but even of an handful of men in comparison of the people which should arrive there. That which is here briefly promised is declared ⟨image 64⟩more at large in the Prophet Isaiah,¹ when he saith, Rejoice ô barren that diddest not bear, for the widow shall have moe children then she who hath a husband. Enlarge the place of thy tents, ²