Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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THE ARGVMENT OF IEREMIES LAMENTATIONS.
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noteThese Lamentations, in Greeke called Threni, and by the
Hebrew Rabhins intituled Cinoth, were written by Ieremie before
the greatest part of his other prophecies (as semeth most probable to S. Ierom)
and were first songue at the death of Iosias king of Iuda. Againe when king
Sedecias with manie others were taken captiues, manie also slaine, and
the Temple and citie of Ierusalem destroyed. But most especially he prophecieth
the Iewes miserable estate, and iust cause of Lamentation after Christs
coming, and their reiecting him. And therfore his Church singeth the same
in the Aniuersarie, or Commemoration of his Passion and Death; and most
piously inuiteth al sinners, both Iewes and Gentiles, to returne vnto Christ
our Redemer, saying: Ierusalem, Iervsalem conuertere ad Dominum
Deum tuum. note In this litle booke the diligent reader wil easely
obserue manie doleful pathetical speaches, powred out from a pensiue hart,
as in great calamities it commonly happeneth, with litle connexion of sentences;
but otherwise foure whole chapters are very artificially compiled in
verse; not by number of times, with measure of long and short syllables, as
the Grekes and Latines vse, but after the Hebrew maner, obseruing number
of syllables, and beginning euerie verse, with a distinct letter, from the first
to the last in order, with some smal varietie, of the Hebrew Alphabet. note
Doubtles with great mysteries, as S. Ierom iudgeth, and therfore explicateth
the significations, and certaine connexions, of the two and twentie Hebrew
letters: as we haue noted vpon the 118. Psalme: but aboue the capacitie of
our vnderstanding. In the last chapter the Prophet omitting the obseruation
of Initial letters, in twentie two verses prayeth lamentably; as the
whole people shal pray in captiuitie.
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THE THRENES, that is to say, THE LAMENTATIONS OF IEREMIE THE PROPHET.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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