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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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Vers. 3. Israel is the* holiness of the Lord, the first of of his fruits: all those that eat them, shall find evil: others translate, shall sin; but I had rather understand it of the punishment which shall come thereupon: evil shall come upon them: this is put by way of exposition, saith the Lord.
Vers. 3. Israell is the* holinesse of the Lord, the first of of his fruits: all those that eat them, shall find euill: others translate, shall sin; but I had rather understand it of the punishment which shall come thereupon: euill shall come vpon them: this is put by way of exposition, saith the Lord.
- *or, as a thing hallowed to the Lord.
God doth here more plainly tax the peoples ingratitude. And first, he mentions the benefits bestowed ⟨p. 54⟩§1§2upon them, which were sufficient to have obliged them for ever unto him. Secondly, he shows how unworthily the people behaved themselves, whilst they should have acknowledged so many benefits received: and therefore when he saith, that Israel was holy, he speaks not so, to honour them. I grant this is an honourable title in it self: first, that God had set them apart for his own; and esteemed them as the first fruits of his revenue. But the opposition which is closely here understood, must be considered; to wit, between that so incomparable a grace of God, and the peoples disloyalty; who (notwithstanding his bounty and liberality) did afterwards quite forsake him. It is in this sense then, that Jeremiah saith, Israel was the holiness of the Lord: that is, as one separated from all other nations, that Gods glory might shine there especially.