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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. 22. For my foolish people have not known me, they are children without understanding, and have no knowledge. They are wise to do evil: but to do well they have no knowledge.
Vers. 22. For my foolish people haue not knowne me, they are children without vnderstanding, and haue no knowledge. They are wise to doe euill: but to doe well they haue no knowledge.
The Prophet again shows,1 that the cause of all their evils, proceeds from themselves; that they might not foolishly impute the same unto any other. He saith then, my people is foolish. He speaks here in the person of God: for by and by it follows, they have not known me; which can no way agree unto Jeremiah. God then complains here, of the folly of his people; whom he calls his, not by way of honour, but rather to redouble their reproach. For what was more unseemly, than for Gods people, whom he hath chosen as his own peculiar inheritance, to be void of knowledge and understanding? What else was Gods purpose in choosing and adopting the children of Abraham, but that they should be as burning lights, to manifest the doctrine of salvation to all the world? What nation is there (saith Moses) so noble in all the world, to whom the gods come so near, and so familiarly, as the Lord thy God doth? Herein consists thy knowledge and wisdom, as it follows in Deut. 4.6.7. Thus God here shows, that it is a thing most prodigious, which all the world also ought to abhor, when he gives his people here the title of a foolish people. As if he should say, Is it possible that this people whom I have chosen to be a guardian of my covenant touching everlasting salvation, to whom I have vouchsafed the honour to instruct them by my word; is it possible I say, that this people should be so insensible, as wilfully to cast themselves into perdition? It is a foolish people then, in regard they have not known me.
THe Prophet againe shewes,