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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. 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* plentiful land, to eat the fruits thereof, and the abundance thereof, word for word it is: To his good: and you entered into it, and have polluted my land, and have made mine heritage an abomination.
Vers. 6. And they said not, that is, it came not into their minds to say, where is the Lord that hath brought vs out of the land of Egypt, and caused vs to walke through the desert, by a solitary or, empty land, and vaste, in a terrible land, by the shadow of death, by a land that no man passed thorow, and where no man dwelt. 7 And I brought you into a* plentifull land, to eate the fruits thereof, and the abundance thereof, word for word it is: To his good: and you entred into it, and haue polluted my land, and haue made mine heritage an abomination.
- *or, Hacarmel
The Prophet prosecutes the same point of doctrine still: for God here blames the people for no small fault, seeing they had forgotten his benefits: and yet had he redeemed them after such an admirable manner, that it ⟨p. 59⟩worthily deserved to be celebrated, not of one nation only, but of all the nations of the world besides. See then how justly he taxeth the Jews for their hateful ingratitude, for forgetting the memory of so famous and incomparable a deliverance. Had they not at all felt Gods bounty and liberality towards them; nay, or rather, had they had but some little semblance thereof, then their fault peradventure might have been somewhat the more excusable: but God having not after an ordinary manner discovered his power from heaven, and having openly manifested his majesty and glory, even in the very eye of the people; what a barbarity was it in them after all these things, to forget God who had so plainly declared himself to them by such notable experiments? Thus we have the Prophets meaning then, when he saith, they said not.