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.

Vers. 16. And the Lord of hosts shal be exalted in iudgement, and the holy God shall be sanctified in iustice.

HE shewes the manner of the excellencie; or the formall cause, as they say, of this exaltation, whereof he spake before: and it is as much as if he had said, That the Lord of hosts (whom the wicked doe proudly treade vnder foote) shall be exalted, when he shall shew himselfe the iudge of the world. And thus hee scornes the sottish confidence, wherewith the wicked were swollen. For if iudgement and iustice must haue the vpper hand; there ruine must needes follow: seeing their pride was nothing else but an ouerturning of the whole course of nature. Now we must dili∣gently note, that it is no more possible for the wicked to remaine alwaies in an happie estate, then that God should suffer his glorie to be abolished. Although iudgement and iustice doe differ in nothing one from the o∣ther, yet the repetition is not superfluous. The vehemencie also of the speech is further enlarged, when hee addes in the second member, and the holy God shall be sanctified, to the ende the wicked should not through a false imagination promise a lasting felicitie by force, or without cause; which they can∣not doe, but that the holines of God shall thereby be abolished. But seeing God is holy of his owne nature, it must needs be that he must be sanctified. Whence it followes that

ruine is prepared for the wicked, that so their obstinacie and rebellion may be brought vn∣der, because God can not denie himselfe.