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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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Showing, that if they had taken this course, they might every way have been mirrors of Gods mercies: but the contrary, was the cause of Gods curses upon themselves; which also kept off the Heathens from coming in, to partake with them in the worship of the true God; who had promised, that in Abraham's seed, all the nations of the earth should be blessed. p. 194. 195.
Shewing, that if they had taken this course, they might euery way haue been mirrours of Gods mercies: but the contrary, was the cause of Gods curses vpon themselues; which also kept off the Heathens from comming in, to partake with them in the worship of the true God; who had promised, that in Abrahams seed, all the nations of the earth should be blessed. p. 194. 195.
Vers. 3 Now because their sins had of old taken deep rooting within them, he useth a similitude, under which he tells them, it is unpossible they should ever become fruitful, unless they suffered the word of God (as a plough) to rend up the fallow ground of their hearts; that so these vices (which for the hurt they did, he compares to thorns) might be rooted up. p. 196. 197.
Vers. 3 Now because their sinnes had of old taken deepe rooting within them, he vseth a similitude, vnder which he tels them, it is vnpossible they should euer become fruitfull, vnlesse they suffered the word of God (as a plough) to rend vp the fallow ground of their hearts; that so these vices (which for the hurt they did, he compares to thornes) might be rooted vp. p. 196. 197.
Vers. 4 And that they might the rather be brought unto it, he puts the Jews in mind of the Sacrament of Circumcision, wherein they gloried so much; wishing them not to rest in the ⟨image 170⟩