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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. 4. Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the kindreds, or, families, of the house of Israel. 5 Thus saith the Lord, what iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have estranged themselves from me, and have walked, or, have been, after vanity, and are become vain? or, vanish away.
Vers. 4. Heare the word of the Lord, O house of Iacob, and all the kindreds, or, families, of the house of Israell. 5 Thus saith the Lord, what iniquitie haue your fathers found in me, that they haue estranged themselues from mee, and haue walked, or, haue been, after vanity, and are become vaine? or, vanish away.
God here gives a reason why he had bestowed those favours upon the Jews,1 of which we heard before; to wit, wherefore he made choice of Israel, to be a people consecrated peculiarly to himself, and to be as his first fruits. God often times remembers his benefits formerly bestowed upon us; either to give us hope for the time to come, or that he might always give us assurance (whatsoever should fall out to the contrary) of our salvation; in regard he hath not only vouchsafed once to elect and choose us, but to be our protection and defence. Yet in this, and in many other places, God shows how many ways the Israelites were indebted unto him, that their ingratitude might be so much the more apparent. He saith then, Hear the word of the Lord.
GOd heere giues a reason why he had bestowed those fauours vpon the Iewes,1