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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. 22. Though thou shouldest wash thee with nitre, or alum, as some translate it, and that thou shouldest gather together all the grass of the fuller, as some expound it; others translate it soap: as touching the substance, the matter is not great, because God meant to give them to understand, that no art, nor any other means at all, nor that any grass or herbs were able to cleanse out the filthinesses of the people: thine iniquity is marked, graved, or printed; or as some translate, sealed, before my face, saith the Lord God.
Vers. 22. Though thou shouldest wash thee with niter, or allom, as some translate it, and that thou shouldest gather together all the grasse of the fuller, as some expound it; others translate it sope: as touching the substance, the matter is not great, because God meant to giue them to vnderstand, that no art, nor any other meanes at all, nor that any grasse or herbs were able to cleanse out the filthinesses of the people: thine iniquity is marked, graued, or printed; or as some translate, sealed, before my face, saith the Lord God.
WE have seen already (and the Prophet will also often mention the same) how the people were become so rebellious, that they would receive no correction. For the greater part were grown audacious, and become so hardened in their sins, that they made no bones at all, scornfully to make their replies against the Prophets, when they pressed them home indeed. What? Are not we Gods holy people? Hath he not chosen and adopted us? Are not we the sacred of-spring of Abraham? For this cause the Prophets were fain to carry themselves on this nanner towards them: for (as we have it in our common proverb) to a rough horse belongs a rough rider: the Israelites therefore being like to tough and knobby timber, needed to be laid upon with main strokes, to master their tough and crabbed nature. According to which Jeremiah now saith, Though thou wash thee with soap, and though thou gettest to thee all store of fullers grass; yet is thine iniquity sealed before me: that is to say, thou shalt get nothing by colouring over thy wickednesses by goodly pretences: wash thee as much as thou wilt, yet thine iniquity remains sealed up in my sight. Now the Prophet speaks in the person of God, that the sentence of condemnation, which he pronounceth upon the Israelites, by which also he brings all their goodly flatteries and fair pretexts to nothing,