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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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In the next place he adds, And when she saw upon all this, to wit, for all the whoredoms that rebellious Israel committed: that is to say, when the kingdom of Judah saw all these things. We shall see the drift of this comparison by and by. For he amplifies the wickedness of the kingdom of Judah, because she might easily behold all that which hath formerly been recited; yea, and a great way off, as from an high turret discern it; and so might have been brought to repentance: but she saw, howbeit without fruit. Thus then God meant to show what obstinacy there was in the Jews, who had beheld the revolt of the ten Tribes: neither were they ignorant how sharply they had been reproved and threatened by the Prophets.
In the next place he adds, And when shee saw vpon all this, to wit, for all the whoredomes that rebellious Israel committed: that is to say, when the kingdome of Iudah saw all these things. We shall see the drift of this comparison by and by. For he amplifies the wickednesse of the kingdome of Iudah, because she might easily behold all that which hath formerly been recited; yea, and a great way off, as from an high turret discerne it; and so might haue been brought to repentance: but she saw, howbeit without fruit. Thus then God meant to shew what obstinacy there was in the Iewes, who had beheld the reuolt of the ten Tribes: neither were they ignorant how sharply they had been reproued and threatened by the Prophets.
1And in the next verse he adds, I have seen. As in the ⟨p. 155⟩former verse he said, Judah saw what Israel did: so now also he saith, that he himself saw both the one and the other. I have seen then But what is it which he faith he saw? namely, that Judah also played the harlot (for I speak now of her, as of a wife) God saith then, that he was not ignorant of this. Whereof? That Judah fell not by error or ignorance; but that of malice, and of set purpose she exceeded the wickedness of her sister Israel. Yea, I have seen, for all these things, when she played the harlot. He now sets that forth more at large, which he delivered before in few words. He said, the Tribe of Judah saw: but this, by reason of the brevity of it, might have seemed obscure. He explains his meaning further then, Judah (saith he) saw that I gave her sister a bill of divorce, because she had played the harlot; and yet this astonished her not: that is, it never came into her thought to repent, though she saw so manifest an example of my wrath and vengeance, even before her eyes. Quest. But here a question may be asked, How is it said, he gave Israel a bill of divorce; seeing in