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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Payer.
The Ppayer.
Almighty God, seeing it hath pleased thee once to show us this favour, not only to adopt us for thy children, but also to bind us unto thee by the bond of spiritual marriage, and hast given us so good a pledge thereof in that holy and sacred union which we have with thy only Son Jesus Christ: grant we may hold fast the faith of the Gospel, and also with such fidelity and loyalty keep that faith which we have plighted to thee, that on thy part thou mayest show thy self an husband and a father, in such wise unto us even unto the end, that we may find thy bounty so enlarged towards us, that by means thereof we for our parts may also be held in the fear of thy holy name, till at the last we come to enter into the possession of that holy covenant of thy heavenly kingdom, through the same our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Almighty God, seeing it hath pleased thee once to shew vs this fauour, not onely to adopt vs for thy children, but also to binde vs vnto thee by the bond of spirituall marriage, and hast giuen vs so good a pledge thereof in that holy and sacred vnion which we haue with thy onely Son Iesus Christ: grant we may hold fast the faith of the Gospell, and also with such fidelity and loyalty keepe that faith which wee haue plighted to thee, that on thy part thou maist shew thy selfe an husband and a father, in such wise vnto vs euen vnto the end, that wee may find thy bounty so enlarged towards vs, that by meanes thereof we for our parts may also be held in the feare of thy holy name, till at the last we come to enter into the possession of that holy couenant of thy heauenly kingdome, through the same our Lord Iesus Christ. Amen.