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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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THE SECOND CHAPTER.
Vers. 1. And the word of the Lord came unto me saying, 2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee according to the compassion of thy youth, and for the love I bare thee, when thou followedst me in the desert, when thou camest after me, in a land that was not sowed.
Vers. 1. And the word of the Lord came vnto mee saying, 2 Goe, and cry in the eares of Ierusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee according to the compassion of thy youth, and for the loue I bare thee, when thou followedst me in the desart, when thou camest after me, in a land that was not sowed.
1Now God gives unto his servant that commission which he was to make report of, to the Kings, Princes, Priests; and to all the people of the land. For by the ears of Jerusalem, he means, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: But God here closely intimates, that the Jews were unworthy he should any longer be careful of their estate. What then? There was some other consideration which moved him not utterly to reject them, that is, he waited to see whether they were become wholly incurable as touching their wickedness or no. Thus he begins then: I remembered thee with the kindness, or, for the compassion of thy youth, and with the love of thy espousals. By these words he signifies, that he did not much regard what the Jews deserved at his hands: nay, he professeth, that he saw no worthiness at all in them, which might provoke him in any sort to care for them, or to labour their conversion by the ministry of his Prophet: but what he did, was in respect of his former benefits bestowed upon them.