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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. 23. And this people hath a perverse and rebellious heart: they are departed and gone.
Vers. 23. And this people hath a peruerse and rebellious heart: they are departed and gone.
Here the sentence is complete, in regard it yet depends upon the former interrogation. But now God shows more clearly why he mentioned this matter touching the sea. And this people, saith he, or, but this people, hath a perverse heart: for the word signifies, perverse. Others translate, declining, which doth not fully express the sense. We may also see in many places, that the word which the Prophet useth, imports somewhat ⟨p. 300⟩more than declining. Yea and this translation agrees better; to wit, that this people hath a perverse heart: and then, rebellious: or which could not be tamed. No doubt but he compares, or opposeth the fierceness and rebellion of the people, to the obedience of the sea: and thus in plain terms he teacheth, that there is greater fury and stupidity in this nation of the Jews, than in the tempestuous sea.
HEre the sentence is compleat, in regard it yet depends vpon the former interrogation. But now God shewes more cleerly why hee mentioned this matter touching the sea. And this people, saith he, or, but this people, hath a peruerse heart: for the word signifies, peruerse. Others translate, declining, which doth not fully expresse the sense. We may also see in many places, that the word which the Prophet vseth, imports somewhat ⟨p. 300⟩