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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. 26. As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel made ashamed: their Kings, their Princes, their Priests, and their Prophets.
Vers. 26. As the thiefe is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Ifrael made ashamed: their Kings, their Princes, their Priests, and their Prophets.
Others translate it, in the future tense, so shall they be confounded: and their opinion is, that the Prophet here mentions the punishment which was now at hand to be inflicted upon the people. But I rather expound the words simply as they sound; namely, their impiety is now become so odious, that there needs not much rhetoric to decipher it out; because it was already grown so palpable, that a man might feel it (as it were) with his finger.1 The Prophet then compares the Jews to thieves which are taken with the manner: as if he should say, the hypocrites that are mingled amongst this people, gain little by their cavils and evasions. Why so? Because their impiety is apparent to all the world: even as a thief who being taken with the manner, can neither deny, nor cover the fact. His meaning is then,2 that they are so surprised (as it were) with the deed doing; that is, their wickednesses are so notorious, that whatsoever they allege to the contrary, they shall never be able to excuse themselves, but their villainy will manifest it self to the sight of all men. We have now the Prophets meaning then. Before we have seen how the people by many frivolous evasions have sought to excuse themselves: but here Jeremiah shows, that all their pretexts are so far off from procuring them any excuse, that on the contrary, their impudency is thereby so much the more discovered, ⟨p. 110⟩whilst all the world evidently perceives their wickedness; which is so manifest, that they can by no devices so colour it, but it will clearly be viewed of all men.