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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. 23. How wilt thou say, that is, How sayest thou: for the Hebrews often use the future tense, to signify a continual action; How sayest thou then, I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalims? Behold thy ways in the valley, acknowledge that thou hast been a swift Dromedary, which runneth by his ways.
Vers. 23. How wilt thou say, that is, How saist thou: for the Hebrewes often vse the future tence, to signifie a continuall action; How saist thou then, I am not polluted, I haue not walked after Baalims? Behold thy waies in the valley, acknowledge that thou hast been a swift Dromedarie, which runneth by his wayes.
Jeremiah here prosecutes his former sharp reprehension of the Israelites, & discovers all the close conveyances of hypocrites, under which they think to steal away in the dark. For after hypocrites have alleged their false and feigned pretexts, they think the Lord is so hoodwinked, that he can no more espy ought in them, and that none can ever reprove or judge them again. Therefore the Prophet thus severely reprehends this so sottish a security, saying, How darest thou boast thou art not polluted? How darest thou affirm, 1thou hast not followed Baalims? that is to say, after strange gods. For as touching this word Baalims, I told you it signifies, petty, or little Gods. The Jews knew well enough indeed, that there was but one high and sovereign God; and yet notwithstanding that, they sought out advocates: and hence hath sprung those multitudes of gods which they have been wont to forge. For men (as yet) never fell so foully into such a folly, but they always confessed there was a supreme majesty, or rather a divine nature: but therewith they mingled petty gods; so as the Baalims were (after a sort) their advocates, as the Papists call their saints, in regard they dare not attribute the names of Gods to the idols which they have framed: and such cavils (for all the world) used the Jews. He saith therefore, What excuse canst thou make, that thou hast not followed after Baalims?