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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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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.
Vers. 1. The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the Priests which were at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. 2 To wit the word of the Lord came unto him in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, King of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 And was, that is to say, he continued in his vocation, in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah King of Judah, until the end of the captivity of Jerusalem, in the fifth month.
Vers. 1. The words of Ieremiah sonne of Hilkiah, one of the Priests which were at Anathoth in the land of Beniamin. 2 To wit the word of the Lord came vnto him in the daies of Iosias, the sonne of Amon, King of Iudah, in the thirteenth yeere of his raigne. 3 And was, that is to say, he continued in his vocation, in the dayes of Iehoiakim sonne of Iosias King of Iuda, vntill the end of the captiuity of Ierusalem, in the fifth moneth.
I Told you before, how it is not in vain, that the time is here prefixed wherein Jeremiah began to execute his prophetical office in the Church of God; namely, because the estate of the people was much corrupted; all religion blemished, because the book of the Law was lost.1 For thither only must we go, to seek the rule of Gods worship; neither must we pretend to fetch true understanding from any where else, but from this pure ⟨p. 7⟩fountain. Whilst impiety then had the swing, and that it had already reigned but too long by custom, among the Jews, Jeremiah steps suddenly forth: and therefore it was a very heavy burden which God had imposed upon his shoulders: for it could not be avoided but many adversaries would rise up in opposition against him, whilst he endeavoured to bring the people back to the pure doctrine of the Law, which at that time was proudly trampled under foot, of the greater part of this people.
I Told you before, how it is not in vaine, that the time is here prefixed wherein Ieremiah began to execute his propheticall office in the Church of God; namely, because the estate of the people was much corrupted; all religion blemished, because the booke of the Law was lost.