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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. 18. And what hast thou now to do in the way of Egypt? to drink the water of Nilus? or what makest thou in the way of Ashur? to drink the water of the river?
Vers. 18. And what hast thou now to doe in the way of Egypt? to drinke the water of Nilus? or what makest thou in the way of Ashur? to drinke the water of the riuer?
The Prophet (as I touched before) confirms that which I have said; namely, that the people could not challenge the Lord, as being the author of their evils, seeing the whole cause thereof, rested in themselves. And ⟨p. 84⟩yet the fault is redoubled, in regard they sought here and there after such remedies which profited them nothing at all: by means whereof also they always heaped new judgements upon their own heads. For we must understand that their only remedy in afflictions was to seek reconciliation with God.1 For example, if a sick man knows whence the cause of his sickness comes, and afterward (in stead of seeking fit remedies) he betakes himself to some medicine which shall do him no good, but will rather be a means to increase the malady; will we not judge such an one worthy to perish, seeing he wittingly & willingly rejected those remedies which would have done him good, to run after vain and deceivable medicines, thinking to find comfort by them? This is the very thing which Jeremiah here reproves in the Israelites: If thou carefully enquirest (saith he) whence so many afflictions proceed, thou shalt find me guiltless, and thine own iniquities to be the cause. But what is now to be done? what course art thou now to take? even this: bethink thy self well how thou mayest be reconciled with me, and how thou mayest obtain pardon: endeavour to be revenged on thy self for thy wickedness. Thus shall thy plagues be soon removed, and by experience thou shalt find me the best physician,2 if thou thus address thy self unto me.