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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, 1and Chaldeans. It should seem there is some repugnancy in these speeches. But we have formerly advertised you, that all Gods rods depend upon the efficacy of the word. When the City then, was destroyed by the Assyrians, and Chaldeans, then the fire, according to the word which Jeremiah had foretold, destroyed both the City and people. In a word, Jeremiah signifies, that when the enemy shall approach, respect must be had neither to their men, nor munition, nor yet to all the warlike powers they shall bring with them; but that it shall be the execution of the doctrine which proceeded out of the Prophets mouth. In another place we shall see how God sends Jeremiah to lay siege to the City: but with what power? None but himself alone, without any munition at all. True: but this was a mystery to the reprobate: and yet had it, its effect. For as the Prophet spake, so did God execute that which proceeded out of his mouth. We see here then, that the Chaldeans came as it were out of Jeremiahs mouth, even as if the enemy minding to batter the walls of a City, should shoot against it, and play upon the walls with Canon shot: for which purpose we at this day have new engines, and inventions for stratagems of war, to batter and raze Cities: what are then all the engines of war? They are the fire, which God casts out by the mouths of his servants, and the doctrine by them taught,