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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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With Kings, he joins Priests and Princes: 1and in conclusion, all the people. Though some one King (forgetting his duty) becomes a tyrant, and makes his lust a law; yet it often falls out, that there shall be some good rulers and Magistrates, who will be a means to moderate his unbridled appetites, if they cannot wholly reform them. For we see that even the most cruel tyrants are often brought to be calmed, and made peaceable by good counsellors. But God here advertiseth, that things are now become so desperate in Judea, that if the Kings be mischievous and wicked, they shall also have perverse counsellors, who in every thing shall be just of the same stamp that they are.
With Kings, he ioynes Priests and Princes: 1and in conclusion, all the people. Though some one King (forgetting his duty) becomes a tyrant, and makes his lust a law; yet it often falles out, that there shall be some good rulers and Magistrates, who will bee a meanes to moderate his vnbridled appetites, if they cannot wholly reforme them. For wee see that euen the most cruell tyrants are often brought to bee calmed, and made peaceable by good counsellors. But God heere aduertiseth, that things are now become so desperate in Iudeah, that if the Kings bee mischieuous and wicked, they shall also haue p•ruerse counsellors, who in euery thing shall bee iust of the same stampe that they are.
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That which follows of the Priests, 1might yet seem much more prodigious, but that the Scripture in every place testifies, that the Levitical Priests were all (in a manner) degenerate, and become Apostates; so as scarcely one of an hundred was to be found, in whom the least spark of Gods fear appeared. For as much then as this state was thus corrupted, is it any marvel if Jeremiah be