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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17640	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.; Commentarii in Isaiam prophetam. English	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Cotton, Clement.	1609 (1609)	STC 4396; ESTC S107143	1,440,654	706

that Christ hath suffered for vs that now we might inioy the fruit of his death He makes expresse mention of the trespassers to aduertise vs that it is our duties to runne with boldnesse to the crosse of Christ when the dread and horror of sinne affrights vs. For for such is he an aduocate and intercessor without which our transgressions would hinder vs from approching ne●re to the maiestie of God THE LIV. CHAPTER Vers 1. Reioice O barren that didst not beare breake forth into ioy and reioice thou that didst not trauel with child for the * Or widow desolate hath mo children then the married wife HAuing handled the doctrine of Christs passion From the doctrine of Christs passion de●th the Prophet turnes his speech to the Church that she might se●k the fruit and efficacie thereof hee now fitly turnes his speech to the Church to the end we might feele in our selues the efficacie of his death For we cannot perceiue it in Christ if we consider him by himselfe and therefore wee must come presently vnto his Church which is his body because hee suffered for it not for himselfe This order wee know is obserued in the articles of our Creed For hauing confessed that vve beleeue in Iesus Christ vv●o suffered and vvas crucified for vs we adde J beleeue the Church which hath issued as it were out of his side Gen. 2.1 22 23. And therefore after Isaiah hath deliuered the doctrine of Christs sufferings of his resurrection and triumph he descends now in due season to mention the Church which can neuer be separated from her head to teach all the faithfull from thei● o●ne experience that Christ hath not suffered in vaine If he had omitted this doctrine the faithfu●l could not so well haue confirmed their hearts in the hope of the restauration of the Church Now this exhortation to reioicing plainely shewes that after Chirst by his death shall haue got the conquest ouer death sinne and hell that hee shall not liue so much for himselfe but that he therewithall will inspire life into the members of his body He calles his Church barren Barren because shee seemed to haue none issue whilest this wofull seruitude lasted And indeed if a man had onely looked vpon her outward estate hee would surely haue iudged her neere to destruction Moreouer besides the misery that appeared externally there was nothing sound within all were corrupted and defiled with superstitions They had also prophaned themselues with the idolatries of the heathen Neither contents hee himselfe to call her barren A widow but he also termes her a vvidow although one of them had been sufficient enough to haue taken from her all hope of posteritie But when both are ioined together what was to bee expected but an horrible desolation Notwithstanding he exhorts the people to bee of good courage in the midst of so many miseries for she that is desolate Desolate shall haue more children then the maried vvife This place may bee expounded two waies either that the Church is compared to the Gentiles which florished like a woman that had an husband or to the estate she was in before her captiuitie both senses wil agree well But I had rather follow one lesse constrained for I doe not thinke the Prophet makes a comparison heere betweene two estates But it is rather a forme of speech vsuall with him to signifie the extraordinarie fruitfulnesse of the Church that so we should not iudge of her according to the order of nature Why so Because God will worke in his behalfe wonderfully and miraculously And yet I confesse that shee was then in widowhood for long time before God had put her away by his Prophets and sued out a diuorce betweene him and his people which was then effected when he banished them out of their country But the Prophet pronounceth that this iudegemnt shall bee temporarie as wee shall more fully perceiue heereafter Vers 2. Inlarge the place of thy tents and let them spread out the curtaines of thine inhabitation spare not stretch out thy cords and make fast thy stakes 3. For thou shalt increase on the right hand and on the left and thy seede shall possesse the Gentiles and dwell in the desolate Cities HEe prosecutes his argument vnder other figures A prosecution of the former doctrine vnder other figures and promiseth that the Lord will not onely restore his Church but will also dignifie her with a more excellent estate Those who thinke that there is a comparison heere betweene the Church and the Synagogue are deceiued as I thinke Neither doe they ought else heereby then confirme the Iewes in their obstinacie who perceiue well enough that violence is offered to the sense of this text by such an exposition For mine owne part I doe indeede confesse that these things appertaine to the kingdome of Christ and that they were then onely fulfilled from the publishing of the Gospell But it doth not therefore follow that the Prophet should not also respect that time which went before Christs comming for the accomplishment of this prophecie beganne vnder Cy●us who gaue the Gospell leaue to returne then it extended it selfe to the comming of Christ in whom it receiued the full accomplishment The Church then conceiued when the people returned home for at that time the body of the people was gathered of whom Christ should be borne that so the pure worship of God and his true religion might againe be planted amongst them I grant this fruitfulnes did not then appeare for the conception was hid as it were within the mothers wombe which outwardly could not be any whit discerned But after the people multiplied and after the birth they were at the first like a child then they grew to mans estate euen till the publishing of the Gospel The infancie of the Church Which time indeed was the true infancie of the Church Afterwards she grew to womans estate and shall so continue euen till Christs last comming The perfect estate of the Church when all things shall be set in their perfect estate Wee must therefore comprehend all these things together if we wil attaine to the true meaning of the Prophets words And in this sense it is that Zacharie Malachi and Haggai doe incourage the people touching the hope of their estate to come whilest they thought they lost so much time in reedifying the Temple Zach. 2.5 Hag. 2.7 Mal. 4.2 For they promised that the glory of the second Temple should bee more glorious then the first but yet this was not perceiued And therefore they extended these promises to Christ for it was needfull they should be sustained with the expectation of him and with the assurance of his comming in the building of the Temple This consolation then was common both to the Iewes that liued vnder the Law and to vs who now see this restauration of the Church in Christ more euidently Of thy tents This is