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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. 7. The Lion is come forth of his fort, or den, and the destroyer of nations is departed, he is gone out of his place, to make the land desolate: thy Cities shall be so destroyed, that there shall remain none inhabitant therein.
Vers. 7. The Lion is come forth of his fort, or den, and the destroyer of nations is departed, he is gone out of his place, to make the land desolate: thy Cities shall be so destroyed, that there shall remaine none inhabitant therein.
The Prophet in more words here shows what this threatening means, which we began to touch yesterday. For in vers. 6. God said he would cause a plague to come from the North. 1Now here he shows what kind of plague it should be: and compares the King of Babylon to a Lion: and afterwards, without using any figure, he calls him The destroyer of nations. By this similitude of a Lion, he gives the Israelites to understand, that they shall be too weak to resist: and in adding, he shall be a destroyer of nations, he signifies, they shall perish as well as the rest. For if Nebuchadnezzar had sufficient power to destroy many nations, what should let the Jews from passing that way, or how could they escape the same calamity which others had tasted of before them? Therefore he saith, the destroyer shall come. But in all these words he useth §1the present tense; to show the certainty of his prophecy: §2as also that he might so much the more affright and terrify such as were become secure and careless, and wholly rocked asleep in their hypocrisy, in regard no threatening at all could move them. For whilst God spared