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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE TWO AND TWENTIETH LECTURE, WHICH IS THE FIFTH upon the fifth Chapter.
THE TWO AND TWENTIETH LECTVRE, WHICH IS THE FIFTH vpon the fifth Chapter.
Yesterday we set before you the brutish carelessness of such as are so little affected with Gods benefits, that they are not stirred up thereby to honour and serve him. I grant the Prophet spake of such benefits as God bestows equally, as well upon the bad, as upon the good: to wit, he gives them showers, the spring time, and harvest; and so disposeth of all the parts and seasons of the year, that at the length the fruits of the earth ripen. For by the weeks ordained, or established, he simply means, that God in such wise orders every part of the year, that whatsoever men sow, ripens at last. And the word, reserves; tends also to the same purpose: for it is all one as if he had said, The seasons so change every year, that yet one continual course and order is still observed, and they follow (as you see) one in the neck of another. Now we have the Prophets meaning: for he shows, that the Jews had too long been besotted, and brutishly minded; in that they considered not, no not in their ordinary and daily food, of Gods bounty and liberality towards them, which yet ought to have been as so many goads in their sides, to have pricked them forward to his fear and service. Saint Paul also (in his time) preaching to profane persons, Act. 14.17. sets this consideration before their eyes, God (saith he) never left himself without witness, in that he gave you rain and fruitful seasons: that is, he so disposed of the seasons, that one might easily behold therein, as in a glass, his fatherly love towards mankind. But the Prophet meant here to tax the Jews of ingratitude, ⟨p. 303⟩