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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Vers. 1. Walk you, others translate, enquire, or espy, or seek, by the ways of Jerusalem; and see I pray you, for the word [Greek or Hebrew] is put here to exhort: in the former verse, we thought fit to translate it, Now: Woe is me now: and know, and enquire through the streets, or in the cross ways where streets meet, if there you can find a man; if there be any that executeth judgement, that is truly, that seeketh the truth; and I will spare, or pardon it.
Vers. 1. Walke you, others translate, enquire, or espy, or seeke, by the wayes of Ierusalem; and see I pray you, for the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is put heere to exhort: in the former verse, we thought fit to translate it, Now: Woe is mee now: and know, and enquire through the streets, or in the crosse wayes where streets meet, if there you can find a man; if there be any that executeth iudgement, that is truly, that seeketh the truth; and I will spare, or pardon it.
IN this verse, as also in the rest following, God shows he is not over severe nor rigorous, albeit he denounceth such extreme calamities against his people. Because their wickedness was become utterly incurable, and therefore he had no other means but this left.1 For we know what he often testifies in the Scripture, namely, that he is patient, that he waits to see if sinners will come to repentance. Seeing God then every where extols his clemency, promising that he will show mercy to the most wicked, if they repent: for as much also as he freely prevents sinners, it should seem strange, that with so great severity he riseth up in anger against his Church. But we see what obstinacy and perverseness there is in the minds of the wicked: and therefore they fear not to make their complaints against God, and to call him to an account (as it were) before them: as if he dealt too rigorously with them. For this cause then, God now shows, that it was not his fault that the people were not pardoned: for as if ⟨p. 251⟩