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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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And I said, Hew shall I give thee children, and how shall I give the a desirable land, the heritage lusted after the armies of the Heathen? And I said, Thou shalt cry unto me, my father, and shalt not estrange thy self from me.
And I said, Hew shall I giue thee children, and how shall I giue the a desirable land, the heritage lusted after the armies of the Heathen? And I said, Thou shalt cry vnto me, my father, and shalt not estrange thy selfe from me.
IT is not my meaning to recite the opinions of every one here: it shall suffice to show the Prophets meaning. This I am constrained to do I confess, when I am to touch the opinion of such as likes me not; for if there be any appearance, the reader may easily be deceived: but whilst the truth is manifest enough of it self; what need I spend time in refuting other mens judgements. In a word then, this is the Prophets meaning. God here asks how it is possible for Abraham's posterity to multiply again, 1after they have been in a manner utterly abolished? even thus; when (saith he) in calling me Father, thou shalt no more estrange thy self from me. This interrogation tends to none other end, but to gall the Jews, as if they had bin utterly lost, and as if no hope at all had been left. And to say the truth, considering their obstinate malice, by which they had provoked God to wrath, they could not be otherwise persuaded, but they should all perish. God therefore speaks here as a man amazed: as if he should say, you indeed for good cause, are hopeless, your salvation is at an end: but in regard I have determined to restore you into your first estate, I will devise a way to multiply your race again. But by what means? Truly he lays no greater a burden upon them. Then to call him Father; not with mouth only, but with a true and hearty affection. We see now what the Prophet meant to say: for in bringing in God admiring (as it were) it is to humble the Israelites, as if the thing had been hard to bring about. In the mean while he encourageth them notwithstanding, in