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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. 14. Wherefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, seeing you have pronounced this word; behold I will give, or, will put, my words in thy mouth as a fire, or, for a fire, and this people shall be the wood, and it shall devour them.
Vers. 14. Wherefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, seeing you haue pronounced this word; behold I will giue, or, will put, my words in thy mouth as a fire, or, for a fire, and this people shall be the wood, and it shall deuoure them.
God here shows how insupportable this pride of theirs is unto him, when they contemned his Prophets, ⟨p. 283⟩by whose ministry he only will be heard. For albeit Jesus Christ had not at all pronounced this sentence, He that hears you, hears me, and he that despiseth you, despiseth me, Luk. 10.16. yet had this been a perpetual law, in regard God from the beginning, meant that his servants should be no less obeyed, than if he himself had in his own person descended down from heaven. And therefore the Jews offered as much violence to God, as oft as they contemned his Prophets, as if they had presumed to have spit in his own face. God now shows then in what detestation he hath this their folly and madness; in that they profited nothing by the labours of his messengers.
GOd heere shewes how insupportable this pride of theirs is vnto him, when they contemned his Prophets, ⟨p. 283⟩by whose ministery he onely will be heard. For albeit Iesus Christ had not at all pronounced this sentence, He that heares you, heares me, and he that despiseth you, despiseth me, Luk. 10.16. yet had this been a perpetuall law, in regard God from the beginning, meant that his seruants should be no lesse obeyed, than if he himselfe had in his owne person descended downe from heauen. And therefore the Iewes offered as much violence to God, as oft as they contemned his Prophets, as if they had presumed to haue spit in his owne face. God now shewes then in what detestation hee hath this their folly and madnesse; in that they profited nothing by the labours of his messengers.