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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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Let all that list, judge, come in, let them ask, let them make a diligent search: and if after search made, there can not a just, and upright man be found, what remains, but that this City must perish? For what is to be done with the desperate, must not my judgements needs light upon them? We have now the Prophets meaning then: for he purposed here to stop the mouths of the Jews, and to refel their slanders, that they might no more murmur against God, or find fault with his judgements, as if he exceeded measure: showing, that albeit God be inclined to show them favour, yet should there be no place left for pardon, for his clemency is by this so desperate an obstinacy excluded, in regard there was not a man in Jerusalem that gave himself to integrity ⟨p. 252⟩and uprightness.
Let all that list, iudge, come in, let them aske, let them make a diligent search: and if after search made, there can not a iust, and vpright man bee found, what remaines, but that this City must perish? For what is to be done with the desperate, must not my iudgements needs light vpon them? Wee haue now the Prophets meaning then: for hee purposed heere to stop the mouthes of the Iewes, and to refell their slanders, that they might no more murmure against God, or find fault with his iudgements, as if he exceeded measure: shewing, that albeit God be enclined to shew them fauour, yet should there be no place left for pardon, for his clemency is by this so desperate an obstinacy excluded, in regard there was not a man in Ierusalem that gaue himselfe to integrity ⟨p. 252⟩and vprightnesse.
Quest. Yet a question may here be asked, namely, wherefore Jeremiah saith, that a good man could not be found, seeing himself was then in Jerusalem, who had also Baruch for his companion; and some others also, of whom we shall hear afterwards. There were some true and faithful servants of God then, and some also who unfeignedly feared the Lord, albeit they were then thin sown: this seems therefore an excessive manner of speech.