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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. 8. They were of fed horses, others translate, armed; they mean, well trapped, stout, and sturdy, rising early, others translate, drawing; and derive it from another verb, every one neighed after his neighbours wife. The words indeed are in the future tense; yet he signifies a continued act.
Vers. 8. They were of fed horses, others translate, armed; they meane, well trapped, stout, and sturdy, rising early, others translate, drawing; and deriue it from another verbe, euery one neighed after his neighbours wife. The words indeed are in the future tense; yet hee signifies a continued act.
Here, as I take it, Jeremiah passeth from the first table of the Law, to the second, and toucheth one kind ⟨p. 272⟩only. But his meaning in a word is, that there was neither faith nor honesty in this people: he compares them then, to wanton, & pampered horses: & thus he discovers their filthiness (as it were) upon the stage. For had he said every one had watched his opportunity, to defile the bed of his brother; this had been odious enough in it self: but when he terms their inordinate lust, a neighing: when he calls them that did so, horses; yea, fed horses, rising in the morning, after they are filled: doubtless he thereby notes, that their intemperancy and dissolution was grown so great, that they ought not only to be esteemed whoremongers, or adulterers; but that there was in them a much greater and detestable villainy, in regard they differed in nothing, from pampered horses, neighing after mares.
HEre, as I take it, Ieremiah passeth from the first table of the Law, to the second, and toucheth one kind