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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.
The Translator.
But seeing there remains but one verse behind, to conclude this Chapter and Lecture withal; I have rather joined, than separated them the one from the other.
But seeing there remaines but one verse behind, to conclude this Chapter and Lecture withall; I haue rather ioyned, than separated them the one from the other.
WE told you yesterday, what the Prophet meant by the garment of scarlet, by the ornaments of gold, and by the painting: to wit, those alluring baits, wherewith Princes, and the people also gratify one another, when they conclude any league one with another. For whatsoever passeth between such, for the most part, it is nothing but mere treachery and deceit. But we further told you, that the Prophet besides this, alludes also to that spiritual marriage, by which God joined the people of Israel to himself. For it was a kind of adultery, thus to affect leagues with strangers; in regard it was a means whereby they renounced God himself, and contemned his protection. For as the husbands protection ought to satisfy the wife; so also ought the Israelites to have contented themselves, with fixing and staying of their eyes upon the Lords help only. But in regard their vain lusts carried them hither and thither, it is not for nought the Prophet compares them to adulterous women.
WE told you yesterday, what the Prophet meant by the garment of scarlet, by the ornaments of gold, and by the painting: to wit, those alluring baits, wherwith Princes, and the people also gratifie one another, when they conclude any league one with another. For whatsoeuer passeth betweene such, for the most part, it is nothing but meere trechery and deceit. But we further told you, that the Prophet besides this, alludes also to that spirituall marriage, by which God ioyned the people of Israel to himselfe. For it was a kind of adultery, thus to affect leagues with strangers; in regard it was a meanes whereby they renounced God himselfe, and contemned his protection. For as the husbands protection ought to satisfie the wife; so also ought the Israelites to haue contented themselues, with fixing and staying of their eyes vpon the Lords helpe onely. But in regard their vaine lusts carried them hither and thither, it is not for nought the Prophet compares them to adulterous women.