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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. 9. And by her hastiness it is come to pass: other of the expositors as well as Saint Jerome, translate, Easiness. The Hebrew word whence it is derived, sometimes signifies swiftness: but here it notes lightness, or wantonness; which the Prophet reproves. It came to pass then, by the lightness, or wantonness of her whoredoms, that she polluted the land, or defiled it: other translate, she made the land sin: but Saint Jerome almost every where translates this word, To defile; neither suits it amiss here: and she played the harlot with stocks and stones.
Vers. 9. And by her hastinesse it is come to passe: other of the expositors as well as Saint Ierome, translate, Easinesse. The Hebrew word whence it is deriued, sometimes signifies swiftnesse: but heere it notes lightnesse, or wantonnesse; which the Prophet reprooues. It came to passe then, by the lightnesse, or wantonnesse of her whoredomes, that she polluted the land, or defiled it: other translate, she made the land sinne: but Saint Ierom almost euery where translates this word, To defile; neither sutes it amisse heere: and she played the harlot with stockes and stones.
The Prophet here (and in the two next verses) concludes his speech which he began, in vers. 6. namely, it was so far off from striking a terror into Judah, by the punishments which God had inflicted upon Israel, that rather by her lightness and loose life, she surmounted all the whoredoms of her sister. She hath (saith he) defiled the land; or, she hath caused it to sin: that is to say, she hath made the land wicked. Now this serves to aggravate the fault much, when he saith, that the land was made culpable; or, that it was defiled. For we know that the earth of it self is pure and clean: neither is it apt to draw into it any spot or vice from mens impiety. But to the end the impiety of her inhabitants might be made so much the more odious and detestable: it is said, the earth is defiled; therefore he saith, the land is guilty. Wherefore? The reason why the land is defiled, or is made wicked, or wrapped in their sins is added, to wit, because she played the harlot with stocks and stones. As touching this similitude of whoredom here mentioned, we need no more to explain it: seeing from the beginning we have so often repeated it: for God had entered into covenant with this people, and had united himself unto them by the holy bond of marriage: therefore as oft as they turned aside from his pure worship, it is rightly said that they committed whoredom, because they corrupted and violated their