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Two and twenty lectures upon the five first chapters of Jeremiah With prayers annexed,…Tvvo and tvventie lectures vpon the fiue first chapters of Ieremiah With prayers annexed,…
Two and twenty lectures upon the five first chapters of Jeremiah With prayers annexed, at the end of every lecture: by Master John Calvin. Which being faithfully collected form him as he uttered them in Latin, in the schools of Geneva, were afterwards translated into French: and now newly turned out of French, into English, with a table at the end, containing the sum and scope of every lecture.Tvvo and tvventie lectures vpon the fiue first chapters of Ieremiah With prayers annexed, at the end of euery lecture: by Master Iohn Caluin. Which being faithfully collected form him as hee vttered them in Latine, in the schooles of Geneua, were afterwards translated into French: and now newly turned out of French, into English, with a table at the end, containing the summe and scope of euery lecture.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Nathanael Newbery, 1620
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
But for as much as in reading the Prophets, sundry difficulties are met withal, which every one hath not the skill of himself to dissolve; it would (as I think) be very beneficial for such, if they had an holy helper, such an one as this, ready at hand:1 An interpreter: One (indeed) of a thousand; that might help to dissolve their doubts, and unloose their hard knots for them: That so understanding what they read, they might (by the blessing of God) with the more ease come to profit by their reading.2 This hath our Philip faithfully performed (according to that light of understanding wherewith the Lord had extraordinarily endowed him) throughout the Prophets: and pity ⟨image 3⟩it is, that so great light should after a sort lie buried in darkness, from many well minded Christians; only because they are not (as they might be) turned into our own native language.
But for as much as in reading the Prophets, sundry difficulties are met withall, which euery one hath not the skill of himselfe to dissolue; it would (as I thinke) be very beneficiall for such, if they had an holy helper, such an one as this, ready at hand:1 An interpreter: One (indeed) of a thousand; that might helpe to dissolue their doubts, and vnloose their hard knots for them: That so vnderstanding what they read, they might (by the blessing of God) with the more ease come to profit by their reading.2 This hath our Philip faithfully performed (according to that light of vnderstanding wherewith the Lord had extraordinarily endowed him) throughout the Prophets: and pity ⟨image 3⟩it is, that so great light should after a sort lie buried in darknesse, from many well minded Christians; onely because they are not (as they might be) turned into our owne natiue language.
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