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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. 17. In that time they shall call Jerusalem the seat or throne of the Lord; and all nations shall come unto it, unto the name of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem: and afterwards they shall no more follow after the hardness, others translate, obstinacy; sometimes it also signifies thought, of their wicked heart. 18. In those days the house of Judah shall go with the house of Israel, and shall come together out of the land of the North, into the land which I have given your fathers for an inheritance, or, which I gave your fathers to possess by the right of inheritance.
Vers. 17. In that time they shall call Ierusalem the seate or throne of the Lord; and all nations shall come vnto it, vnto the name of the Lord, which is in Ierusalem: and afterwards they shall no more follow after the hardnesse, others translate, obstinacy; sometimes it also signifies thought, of their wicked heart. 18. In those dayes the house of Iudah shall goe with the house of Israel, and shall come together out of the land of the North, into the land which I haue giuen your fathers for an inheritance, or, which I gaue your fathers to possesse by the right of inheritance.
Here we see that more clearly confirmed, which I said ere while, to wit, that the Prophet promiseth, there shall be a good harmony and agreement between the two houses of Judah and Israel, after God shall be pleased to bring them home both together out of their exile: as if he should say, their future estate shall far exceed that ⟨p. 175⟩which it was before. Why so? In regard the posterity of Abraham was (as it were) scattered and dispersed: for the people whom the Lord meant to maintain in brotherly concord (with an holy and inviolable band) had been notwithstanding woefully divided and rent in sunder one from another: for we know there was a deadly feud between these two houses. In regard then, there had been for a season such, and so shameful a rent,