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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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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.
THE FIFTH LECTURE, WHICH IS THE FIRST UPON THE second Chapter.
THE FIFTH LECTVRE, WHICH IS THE FIRST VPON THE second Chapter.
WE heard yesterday the complaint that God took up against his people. The sum was, That if he were to make his defence before any Judge, it would be found that he had just cause to condemn their ingratitude: and as for them, they had no colour or show of reason that might cause them to wander after vanity; but they were become vain: that is, they had abandoned him without any cause at all, and suffered themselves to be transported and carried away by their own dreams and forgeries.
WE heard yesterday the complaint that God tooke vp against his people. The summe was, That if he were to make his defence before any Iudge, it would be found that he had iust cause to condemne their ingratitude: and as for them, they had no colour or shew of reason that might cause them to wander after vanity; but they were become vaine: that is, they had abandoned him without any cause at all, and suffered themselues to be transported and carried away by their owne dreames and forgeries.
Vers. 6. And they said not, that is, it came not into their minds to say, where is the Lord that hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, and caused us to walk through the desert, by a solitary or, empty land, and vast, in a terrible land, by the shadow of death, by a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt. 7 And I brought you into a