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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.
Some translate, I called to mind the piety or mercy of thy youth; and this word Lak, that is, thee, may be so resolved, as in many other places. Others omit this word ⟨p. 51⟩Lak: some add a copulative, And I have remembered thee, and thy mercy. But none of these (as I think) have attained the Prophets meaning: although to say the truth, there is no obscurity in the words, if we here only supply a particle, to wit, that God remembered his people, in respect of that mercy and compassion which he had on them, and for that loves sake which he bare unto them from the beginning. This (as I take it) is the Prophets true and natural meaning; namely, that God here takes away from the Jews all matter of pride and boasting: as if he should say, They deserve not that I should so much as look towards them; only my meaning is, to show my self a father to them; not for their sakes, but that the benefits which I have heretofore bestowed upon them may not vanish away. In a word, he here renders a reason wherefore he now sends Jeremiah after the rest of the Prophets whom he had sent before: as if he should say, I think this may serve as a sufficient testimony to confirm you in the assurance of that fatherly care & respect I have of you, in that I here send you another of my Prophets, to offer you hope of pardon; if you will come home into the right way, and seek reconciliation with me. But if you would know the cause why I thus remember you: whence is it, I pray you, seeing you have forgotten me, and cast my Law altogether behind your backs? Even because I mean yet to continue on my bounty towards you.
Some translate, I called to mind the piety or mercy of thy youth; and this word Lak, that is, thee, may bee so resolued, as in many other places. Others omit this word ⟨p. 51⟩Lak: some adde a copulatiue, And I haue remembred thee, and thy mercy. But none of these (as I thinke) haue attained the Prophets meaning: although to say the truth, there is no obscurity in the words, if we heere onely supply a particle, to wit, that God remembred his people, in respect of that mercy and compassion which hee had on them, and for that loues sake which he bare vnto them from the beginning. This (as I take it) is the Prophets true and naturall meaning; namely, that God heere takes away from the Iewes all matter of pride and boasting: as if he should say, They deserue not that I should so much as looke towards them; onely my meaning is, to shew my selfe a father to them; not for their sakes, but that the benefits which I haue heretofore bestowed vpon them may not vanish away. In a word, he here renders a reason wherfore he now sends Ieremiah after the rest of the Prophets whom he had sent before: as if hee should say, I thinke this may serue as a sufficient testimony to confirme you in the assurance of that fatherly care & respect I haue of you, in that I here send you another of my Prophets, to offer you hope of pardon; if you will come home into the right way, and seeke reconciliation with me. But if you would know the cause why I thus remember you: whence is it, I pray you, seeing you haue forgotten me, and cast my Law altogether behind your backes? Euen because I meane yet to continue on my bounty towards you.