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Sermons of John Calvin, upon the song that Hezekiah made after he had been…Sermons of Iohn Caluin, vpon the songe that Ezechias made after he had bene…
Sermons of John Calvin, upon the song that Hezekiah made after he had been sick and afflicted by the hand of God, contained in the 38. chapter of Isaiah. Translated out of French into English. 1560.Sermons of Iohn Caluin, vpon the songe that Ezechias made after he had bene sicke and afflicted by the hand of God, conteyned in the 38. chapiter of Esay. Translated out of Frenche into Englishe. 1560.
London: printed by John Day, 1560London: printed by Iohn Day, 1560
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.
Note then what we have to mark upon this place, where he sayeth:
Note then what we haue to marke vpon thys place, where he sayeth:
From morning until night.
From mornynge vntyll nyght.
Now he addeth that he chattered as a Crane or as a swallow, and that he mourned like a Dove.
Now he addeth that he chattered as a Crane or as a swallowe, and that he mourned like a Doue.
Wherein he meaneth that anguish held him in locked in such sort, that he had not so much as a word free to express his passions. If a man cry and lament, and make his complaints, and declare his evil, it is then to be said that he is sore troubled: but when a man is so stricken down that he can not declare what he aileth, when he stammereth so in him self, that he can not draw forth one only word to declare how vehement his passion is: when he now sigheth, now bringeth forth half a word, and the rest kept in, as if one had his throat locked up: this is a great extremity. Hezekiah then sayeth that he was so. Now there is no doubt, but that he had his respect unto God chiefly: As if he should say, that men perceived well enough the heaviness that he was in: But when that he would frame any request unto God, he was as it were dumb, & that on the one side the sickness troubled him, and yet he could not plainly express what he ailed: so that he was in two extremities. The one, that he was in such sort locked up within, that with great pain could he fetch out any complaint. The other that he was oppressed with so vehement passions, that he wist no where to begin to make his Prayer. But this may be thought very strange, that Hezekiah who before had in him self so great strength, should now be so faint hearted yea, as it were brought to naught: but that was because he had a spiritual conflict, feeling his sins, and knowing that God was his judge: for (as we touched yesterday) this trouble surmounteth all the other.