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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
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Arise (saith he) and speak unto them all that I command thee. To be short, in these words God signifies, that he is not purposed to do his utmost against them, till he hath once more tried whether any hope of repentance be yet left or no. I grant he knew well enough that they were utterly incurable: but his meaning was by this, the better to discover or lay open their perversity and rebellion, whilst (in the last place) he commands the Prophet Jeremiah to pronounce against them this last sentence of condemnation.
Arise (saith he) and speake vnto them all that I command thee. To be short, in these words God signifies, that he is not purposed to doe his vtmost against them, till hee hath once more tried whether any hope of repentance be yet left or no. I grant he knew well enough that they were vtterly incurable: but his meaning was by this, the better to discouer or lay open their peruersity and rebellion, whilest (in the last place) he commands the Prophet Ieremiah to pronounce against them this last sentence of condemnation.
He again repeats that which he said before, Be not afraid of their faces. And this exhortation was of great use: for Jeremiah took upon him a very thankless office, in regard of men. Why so? Because it was all one as if he had been an herald of arms, proclaiming open war against them, in the name of the Lord of hosts. In as much then as Jeremiah brought an express message touching the ruin of this people, because their rebellion had been so great, that God testified he would no more hereafter show them any favour: 1this must needs be an hard saying for them to hear: but especially, if we consider the pride wherewith the Jews were possessed. For they gloried in the holiness of their race and stock: also, (as we shall see afterwards) the Temple (in their conceit) was an impugnable fortress (as it were) even against God himself:2 Being then grown thus obstinate and rebellious, it was very requisite he should be confirmed in his calling more than once, that he might (with the greater courage) set upon his charge. This is the cause then why this exhortation is redoubled, Fear not their faces.