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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
seeing (I say) you have always found abundance and plenty of all good things in me; how comes it to pass now that you are departed and gone away from me?
seeing (I say) you haue alwayes found abundance and plenty of all good things in me; how comes it to passe now that you are departed and gone away from me?
In the next place he adds yet another fault; Wherefore saith my people, we rule, or, are Lords? The Hebrew verb here used is diversly expounded; because some derive it from one root, and others from another. Notwithstanding, among them that derive it from one and the same root, they vary in their judgements: for some refer it to ⟨p. 121⟩those calamities and afflictions which the Jews sustained: others, to their revolt. As touching the first, thus §1they understand it, We are come down: that is to say, we are overwhelmed with miseries, what shall it avail us to call upon God? For all our affairs are become utterly desperate. Others choose a contrary sense, We are gone §2back; that is, what need the Prophets trouble our ears any more with their clamours: for we are resolved never to return to God; we have at once renounced him: let him go then with all his goodly exhortations, for we will neither hear him, nor do ought for him: and both are of opinion, that this is a speech of such as are grown desperate. But we see well enough wherein they differ: for the first sort understand this word, To descend; of the peoples calamities: the latter sort take it for their revolt; to wit, because they had once taken their leaves of God, and would have no more to do with him. There is a third sort who come nearer to the Grammatical sense. §3For the verb here used in the original, signifies to rule: and thus I rather willingly incline to this exposition, we rule: I also think, that it is an arrogant and swelling kind of speech; namely, that the Jews thought themselves Kings, as Saint Paul in