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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. 8. The Priests said not, Where is the Lord? and those which kept, or, had kept, the Law, knew me not: and the Pastors behaved themselves disloyally towards me, and the Prophets prophesied in Ball, that is to say, by Baal, and have walked after things which did nothing profit them.
Vers. 8. The Priests said not, Where is the Lord? and those which kept, or, had kept, the Law, knew me not: and the Pastors behaued themselues disloyally towards me, and the Prophets prophesied in Ball, that is to say, by Baal, and haue walked after things which did nothing profit them.
Now God joins issue, especially with those that had §1the charge of teaching in the Church, and with those §2that had authority to rule and govern the people. For it may very often fall out, that the common people will be irregular, whilst the heads and leaders notwithstanding shall be careful to walk sincerely and in uprightness. But God here shows, that this nation was become so degenerate,1 that Priests, Prophets, Rulers; yea, the heads of the people and all, had abandoned the true service of God, and all righteousness towards men. Now in that Jeremiah thus sets upon the Priests, and Teachers, and the rest: he therein excuseth not the multitude, neither goes he about thereby to extenuate or lessen those foul crimes and enormities which were rife in every place, as we shall perceive hereafter in the process of the text: although we know divers there are, who think they may fence themselves against Gods accusations, by alleging, We are not so well instructed, to discern between truth and falsehood; is it not enough to do as our leaders will have us? The Prophet then dischargeth not the people, so as to lay the whole fault upon the Governors: but he rather aggravates the greatness of their extreme impiety, in regard all, even from the highest to the lowest, had renounced both God and his Law. I think we have now, the Prophets meaning.