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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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But because this complaint was very bitter, the Prophet hath used an interrogation: Will ye not fear me? As if God should say, What means this? Is it possible that I should not be feared, nor reverenced of you? The sea obeys me, and by my secret command her fury is staid; because I ⟨p. 298⟩have once ordained she should keep within her limits: and albeit she be violently tossed up and down with her waves and tempests; yet doth she not pass beyond the bounds which I have set her. And O ye sons of men that are reasonable creatures! will not ye fear me? will not ye tremble, or fear before my face?
But because this complaint was very bitter, the Prophet hath vsed an interrogation: Will ye not feare me? As if God should say, What meanes this? Is it possible that I should not be feared, nor reuerenced of you? The sea obeyes me, and by my secret command her fury is staid; because I ⟨p. 298⟩haue once ordained shee should keepe within her limits: and albeit she be violently tossed vp and downe with her waues and tempests; yet doth she not passe beyond the bounds which I haue set her. And O yee sonnes of men that are reasonable creatures! will not yee feare me? will not yee tremble, or feare before my face?
He adds, that he hath placed the sand for a bound to the sea. Now this expresseth much more, than if he had said, I have ordained limits for the sea. For he speaks of the sand which is moveable, and with a little blast is carried this way and that way. The sand also is easy to be pierced into? Were there hard rocks placed upon all the sea banks, the miracle would not be half so admirable. If God then should beat back the swellings of the sea with such things as were of a solid substance; this work might peradventure be ascribed to nature. But what solidness is in the sand? Let me pour but a little water upon it, incontinently it pierceth into it. Whence comes it then, that the boisterous sea, with her roaring waves, ploughs not up the sand, which of its own nature is so flexible? We see then, that this word sand is not superfluous. There is almost the like place to this, in the book of