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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. 25. We have been dejected in our shame, and our ignominy hath overwhelmed us, because we have carried our selves wickedly against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth, even to this day; and we have not harkened to the voice of the Lord our God.
Vers. 25. We haue been deiected in our shame, and our ignominie hath ouerwhelmed vs, because we haue carried our selues wickedly against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth, euen to this day; and we haue not harkened to the voyce of the Lord our God.
Because the Israelites repeat no new thing here, but only continue on their former speech, my purpose is briefly to pass over this whole verse, lest I should fill this volume with needless repetitions. They say then, that they were dejected in their miseries. Why so? Because they had behaved themselves wickedly against the Lord their God. Here we see how that which they confessed before, is now expounded; namely, that their fathers labours had been consumed by their shame; that is to say, by their iniquities. Now they charge upon themselves, the evils which might have been imputed to their fathers; because they knew well enough they were the heirs of their fathers iniquities. We have been dejected (say they) in our shame. So that here in one word they confess, they are thus afflicted for just cause; neither can they accuse God of cruelty, as if he had chastised them over severely. Why so? Because they are humbled in their shame, and are covered over with their own ignominy: as if they should say, the cause of all our miseries ought to be attributed to our sins: neither ought the same to be sought elsewhere. For (say they) we have dealt wickedly, we and our father […] even from our youth. By which words they signify, that they have provoked God to wrath, not only for one day, but that they persisted in this their rebellion, and from their childhood ceased not to nourish in them the iniquities of their fathers, adding sin unto sin. They said before,1 that their fathers labours were consumed from their ⟨p. 188⟩