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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. 30. I have smitten your children in vain, they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your Prophets, like a destroying Lyon.
Vers. 30. I haue smitten your children in vaine, they receiued no correction; your sword hath deuoured your Prophets, like a destroying Lyon.
Some expound the beginning of this verse, as if God chastised the Jews for their vanity, in regard they were all accustomed to lying: but the second part of the verse answers not to this. Wherefore it is certain, that God complains here of the Jews, because that whilst he laboured to bring them into the right way, they grew altogether incorrigible: and we also have the like sentence in the first chapter of Isaiah, vers. 6. I have lost all my labour (saith the Lord there) in chastening you; no part in you is free, no not from the crown of the head, to the sole of the foot. In which place God testifies that he tried all the remedies he could: but he found the Jews of such a stubborn and rebellious nature, that they were utterly incurable. Jeremiah here handles the same argument: and God by this means so much the more aggravates the peoples untowardness and stubbornness: thereby giving them to understand, that he not only laboured §1by words, to see whether the Jews would receive any admonition: but also by chastisements and corrections: and yet in both these, that he spent his labour in vain. Before, he spake concerning instruction, when he said, keep thy foot from being unshod, 1and thy throat from thirst. Thus then the Prophet by Gods commandment had advertised them, that they should be still: but all these admonitions §2were fruitless and unprofitable. Now he adds,2 that he yet tried a second means, to see if corrections would make them wise; but they also profited by them as little, as by the former. I have chastised you then in vain (saith he) because you have received no correction. But he speaks of children, to show that the whole body of the people was corrupt. For albeit lusts are more hot and boiling in youth, than in aged persons, yet is there