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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. 25. Your iniquities have turned away these things from you, and your wickednesses have hindered the good from you.
Vers. 25. Your iniquities haue turned away these things from you, and your wickednesses haue hindred the good from you.
Because hypocrites (as was formerly said) are wont to make their replies ever and anon against God, and to object this, or that. The Prophet here prevents all their allegations, in saying that Gods liberality was hindered, and withdrawn from them, only by their own proper fault. For they might have replied, Object. Thou talkest here to us in very high terms, of Gods fatherly bounty and liberality, in that he gives us the fruits of the earth; but we feel how by the excessive heat of the Sun, our fruits are one while parched and burned up; another while unseasonable ⟨p. 304⟩rains, rot the grain in the earth: in a word, we see no certainty at all, Answ. but things go confusedly forward amongst us. To this objection he answereth, and saith, I grant it;1 But know, it comes to pass by reason of your wickedness and perversity, that God tempers not every part of the year in such wise, as with your eyes you may behold his continual liberality. Your iniquities (saith he) have deprived you of these things, and your wickednesses have hindered good things from you. This sentence then is very remarkable: for Gods fatherly goodness shines not always alike, in respect of these outward things, but many mists comes ever and anon overthwart our eyes. Thence it comes, that profane persons think the barrenness of this year, and the fruitfulness of that; falls out by chance. For in this life we see nothing so constantly to go on in a straight line, as if the goodness of God so manifested it self in all things, that there should not now and then happen many obstacles and hinderances in the way. But which of us considers, whence this trouble and confusion proceeds? Doubtless it is, because our selves have shut up the way against God, that his bounty should not continually reach unto us: