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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. 20. There is affliction called upon affliction; for the whole land is wasted: my tabernacles are suddenly destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.
Vers. 20. There is affliction called vpon affliction; for the whole land is wasted: my tabernacles are suddenly destroyed, and my curtaines in a moment.
HE prosecutes the same argument still; but he amplifies this terror by a new circumstance; namely, God so heaps evil upon evil, that the Jews shall wonderfully deceive themselves, if they hope that their calamities will soon be at an end. When he saith, affliction upon affliction, he signifies that the end of one misery, shall be the beginning of another. Which also is a thing very tedious and irksome to such poor wretches as are in distress: for they ever think, Our calamities will not always endure. Why so? They imagine that God will satisfy himself with inflicting some light punishment, like a storm or tempest, that suddenly passeth over, and vanisheth away: and they no sooner feel a little release, but they think all is hushed; and so by and by return to their old bias again, playing mock-holy-day with God; as if now they were quite and clean escaped his hands. This is the cause why the Prophet now saith that their calamities shall still be increased,1 and that for a long time together, so as they are not to look for any end of them till the Jews be utterly wasted.
HE prosecutes the same argument still; but hee amplifies this terrour by a new circumstance; namely, God so heapes euill vpon euill, that the Iewes shall wonderfully deceiue themselues, if they hope that their calamities will sone be at an end. When he saith, affliction vpon affliction, he signifies that the end of one miserie, shall be the beginning of another. Which also is a thing very tedious and irksome to such poore wretches as are in distresse: for they euer thinke, Our calamities will not alwayes endure. Why so? They imagine that God will satisfie himselfe with inflicting some light punishment, like a storme or tempest, that suddenly passeth ouer, and vanisheth away: and they no sooner feele a little release, but they thinke all is husht; and so by and by returne to their old byas againe, playing mock-holy-day with God; as if now they were quite and cleane escaped his hands. This is the cause why the Prophet now saith that their calamities shall still be encreased,