Vers. 21. Therefore heare now this, thou miserable and drunken, but not with wine.
NOw he shewes more plainely, why he hath spoken of the calamities of the
A commentary vpon the prophecie of Isaiah. By Mr. Iohn Caluin. Whereunto are added foure tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.
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- A commentary vpon the prophecie of Isaiah. By Mr. Iohn Caluin. Whereunto are added foure tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.
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- Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.
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Church,* 1.1 namely, that the faithfull should not doubt of the Lords readinesse to comfort them, though they indured many and great extremities. But wherefore calles hee the Church miserable? Is there any estate so bles∣sed as to be in Gods fauour, especially seeing this blessednesse cannot bee taken from vs? For it is not said without cause in Psa. 144.15. That the people are blessed which haue the Lord for their God. [Ans.] * 1.2 I answer, she is miserable onely in appearance. Also the Lord calles her not by this name in vaine, for himselfe is the helper of the miserable, and of those that be destitute of succour; as wee haue said be∣fore.
Where he calles her drunken: we must note that the faithfull doe not alwaies indure their afflictions with such patience and constancy, that they are not sometimes astonied: but notwithstanding their amazednesse, they ought to conceiue that the Lord chastiseth them iustly; and also to be assured, that hee will succour them. For he speakes not to the strong and valiant, but to the feeble, misera∣ble, the humbled, and to such as resemble those that are drunke: to such hee promiseth comfort. To be short, by this word he asswa∣geth the Churches sorrow, and shewes that hee keepes a measure in the greatest afflicti∣ons, that he may draw her out of perdition; as if he raised a dead and rotten carkase vn∣to life.
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* 1.1
A mitigation of the Chur¦ches sorrow in this and in the next verse. Quest.
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* 1.2
The Church miserable onely in ap∣pearance. See Hos 14 4