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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. 12. They have denied the Lord, others translate, they have lied to the Lord, and said, It is not he, neither shall evil befall us,* neither shall we see the sword nor famine.
Vers. 12. They haue denied the Lord, others translate, they haue lied to the Lord, and said, It is not hee, neither shall euill befal vs,* neither shal we see the sword nor famine.
- *For the application of this latter member, see the second section following in vers. 13.
HE expresseth that which he said before more clearly, and also in more words. This was a kind of disloyalty, ⟨p. 279⟩in that they had denied the Lord. For I do not utterly reject the other translation; to wit, that they lied to God. But because there is one letter in the word here used, I will not say whether it signifies, to lie, in this place, or no: I make no question but he simply affirms, that they had denied God; and the context it self requires it should be so. For by and by after, they expound themselves, when they said, that God was not. Certain it is, that this was not simply to lye to God; but so to reject him, as if he had not been at all. In regard this sense then, that they lied to God, would be too favourable: I rather incline to the other side, namely, that they denied God; that is, they regarded him not; or they laboured to abolish the memory of him: and yet the reason is added, which also ought to be well observed, They said, God is not. The more fully to express this, he saith, that they gloried, as is they should have escaped punishment. Indeed it seems an excessive speech, when the Prophet affirms, they renounced God. But to prevent all cavils, he confirms his speech, namely, they said, God was not. In the mean while, let us see wherefore he chargeth them with so hateful a crime. They made their vaunts, they should be freed from those plagues, wherewith the Prophets threatened them. Now we see what it is with which the Prophet taxeth them: even an obstinate contempt. For they had hardened their hearts against all the menaces of the Prophets. Which Jeremiah terms no less,