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.
The Prophet Ieremiah borne in the citie of Anathoth in the countrey of Beniamin, was the sonne of
Hilkiah, whom some thinke to be he that sound out the booke of the Lawe, and gaue it to Iosiah. This
Prophet had excellent gifts of God, and most euident reuelations of prophesie, so that by the commandement
of the Lord he began very yong to prophesie, that is, in the thirteenth yeere of Iosiah, and continued eighteene
yeere vnder the said King, and three moneths vnder Iehoahaz, and vnder Iehoiakim eleuen yeeres, and
three moneths vnder Iehoiachin, and vnder Zedekiah eleuen yeeres: vnto the time that they were caried
away into Babylon. So that this time amounteth to aboue fourtie yeere, besides the time that he prophecied
after the captiuitie. In this booke he declareth with teares, and lamentation the destruction of Ierusalem,
and the captiuitie of the people, for their idolatrie, couetousnes, subtiltie, crueltie, excesse, rebellion, and contempt
of Gods worde, and for the consolation of the Church, reueileth the iust time of their deliuerance.
And here chiefely are to be considered three things. First the rebellion of the wicked, which waxe more stubburne
and obstinate, when the Prophets doe admonish them most plainely of their destruction. Next howe
the Prophets and ministers of God ought not to be discouraged in their vocation, though they be persecuted
and rigorously handled of the wicked for Gods cause. And thirdly, though God shewe his iust iudgement against
the wicked, yet will he euer shewe himselfe a preseruer of his Church, and when all meanes seeme to
mans iudgement to be abolished, then will he declare himselfe victorious in preseruing his.
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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