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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.
For, as for the desert, what was it but an hideous spectacle, in which you might from all parts be viewed, to be not only compassed about with one, but with an hundred deaths? Seeing God then (beyond the order of nature) brought you by a stretched out arm, from out of Egypt, and sustained you forty years long in the desert: what show or colour of reason have you to excuse such a folly, or rather madness, that are now so far estranged from me?
For, as for the desart, what was it but an hideous spectacle, in which you might from all parts bee viewed, to bee not onely compassed about with one, but with an hundred deaths? Seeing God then (beyond the order of nature) brought you by a stretched out arme, from out of Egypt, and sustained you forty yeres long in the desart: what shew or colour of reason haue you to excuse such a folly, or rather madnesse, that are now so farre estranged from me?
Doct. Now hence we are taught, that the more mercies God hath bestowed upon us, the more fiercely shall the guiltiness of our consciences wound us; especially if after all this, we forsake him: also, our malice and unthankfulness shall be so much the less inexcusable: but most of all, if he have held on the course of these his benefits for a long space, and after divers manners towards us.
Doct. Now hence we are taught, that the more mercies God hath bestowed vpon vs, the more fiercely shall the guiltinesse of our consciences wound vs; especially if after all this, we forsake him: also, our malice and vnthankfulfulnesse shall be so much the lesse inexcusable: but most of all, if hee haue held on the course of these his benefits for a long space, and after diuers manners towards vs.
He goes on in the next words, And I have caused you to enter. Jeremiah brings in God himself speaking here; namely, how he stretched forth his hand (as it were) to this poor of-spring of Abraham; that he might put them in possession of the land of promise: for as it is said in the 44.