Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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THE ARGVMENT.
God, according to his promes, Deut.18.15. that he would neuer leaue his Church destitute of a Prophet,
hath from time to time accomplished the same: whose office was not onely to declare vnto the people
the things to come, whereof they had a speciall reuelation, but also to interprete and declare the Lawe,
and to apply particularly the doctrine, contained briefly therein, to the vtilitie and profit of those, to whom
they thought it chiefly to appertaine, and as the time and state of things required. And principally in the
declaration of the Lawe they had respect to three things, which were the ground of their doctrine: First to
the doctrine contained briefly in the two tables: secondly to the promises and threatnings of the Law: and
thirdly, to the couenant of grace and reconciliation, grounded vpon our Sauiour Iesus Christ, who is the
ende of the Law. Whereunto they neither added nor diminished, but faithfully expounded the sense and
meaning thereof. And according as God gaue them vnderstanding of things, they applied the promises
particularly for the comfort of the Church and the members thereof, and also denounced the menaces against
the enemies of the same: not for any care or regarde to the enemies, but to assure the Church of
their safegard by the destruction of their enemies. And as touching the doctrine of reconciliation, they
haue more cleerely intreated it then Moses, and set forth more liuely Iesus Christ, in whome this couenant
of reconciliation was made. In all these things Isaiah did excell all the Prophets, and was most diligent to
set out the same, with most vehement admonitions, reprehensions, and consolations: euer applying the
doctrine, as he sawe that the disease of the people required. Hee declareth also many notable prophecies
which he had receiued of God, as touching the promes of the Messiah, his office, and his kingdome. Also of
the fauour of God toward his Church, the vocation of the Gentiles, and their vnion with the Iewes. Which
are as most principall pointes contained in this booke, and a gathering of his sermons that hee preached.
Which after certaine dayes that they had stand vpon the Temple doore (for the maner of the Prophets
was to set vp the summe of their doctrine for certaine dayes that the people might the better marke it, as
Isa.8. 1. and Habak.2.2.) the Priests tooke it downe and reserued it among the registers: and so by Gods
prouidence these bookes were preserued as a monument to the Church for euer. As touching his person
and time, he was of the Kings stocke (for Amoz his father was brother to Azariah King of Iudah, as the
best writers agree) and prophecied more then 64. yeeres from the time of Vzziah vnto the reigne of Manasseh,
whose father in lawe he was (as the Ebrewes write) and of whome he was put to death. And in
reading of the Prophets, this one thing among other is to be obserued, that they speake of things to come as
though they were now past, because of the certaintie thereof, and that they could not but come to passe, because
God had ordeined them in his secret counsell, and so reueiled them to his Prophets.
Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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