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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. 15. Behold, I will bring upon you, O house of Israel, a nation of a far country, saith the Lord: an hard nation, that is to say, which shall be hardy, an* ancient people, a people whose language thou understandest not, or shalt not know, neither shalt thou understand what they shall say.2
Vers. 15. Behold, I will bring vpon you, O house of Israel, a nation of a farre countrey, saith the Lord: an hard nation, that is to say, which shall be hardy, an* ancient people, a people whose language thou vnderstandest not, or shalt not know, neither shalt thou vnderstand what they shall say.2
- *or, of an age.
- 2See Deut. 28.49.
The Prophet here shows how the people shall be like to stubble, or sere-wood, namely, because God shall send such a calamity, as they little feared: and the context is here to be noted. The Prophet told them in ⟨p. 286⟩the former verse, that his tongue should be as the fire: now he applies this to the Assyrians,