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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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So shall we sensibly feel the saving and sanctifying1 ⟨image 6⟩virtue thereof to be infused into us to our everlasting consolation and comfort. And then shall our hearts and mouths be enlarged to speak all the good,2 of this good word of God, that can be devised. Yea, we shall not only praise it, but also with David, the man of God, we shall highly prize it; far above all earthly profits, or delights, Psal. 119.72.103. Then we shall be able with him again and again, to profess how entirely we love it, vers. 97. yea, how greatly we delight in it, vers. 174. yea, what joy and felicity we take in it, vers. 14.162. yea, how incessantly our thoughts and meditations are taken up about it: namely, before break of day, ver. 147 throughout the day, vers. 97. in the night. vers. 55. yea, at midnight, vers. 62. Let us not then (as the manner of some is) permit the word of God, barely to harbour in our houses: but let us endeavour rather, to harbour it within the closet of our hearts.3 And oh happy we! that ever it was our hap, to lodge within us so honourable and gracious a guest; that will every way be so beneficial unto us,4 as in our greatest distractions, to counsel us; in our deepest distresses, to comfort us: and when we are to seek of our way; to direct us, directly to that haven of happiness,5 where there shall be mirth without mourning; fellowship with God, and all his saints, without parting; where we shall be ever prest to do his will without fainting; and that, time without ending. As for those thata neglect so great salvation, that have the word,b but love it not: that read it, but will not be