This prayer comes at the end of his lecture on Jeremiah 3:12-18, in which God promises Judah that their exile would be temporary and that their northern neighbours would “again be made partakers of their inheritance”. “Grant, Almighty God, that as thou at this day mercifully sparest us, when yet in various ways we provoke…
This comes at the end of the eleventh lecture in which Calvin expounds and applies Jeremiah 3:4-11 in which God rebukes “treacherous Judah” for failing to learn the lessons of his disciplining “faithless Israel” in the north. “Grant, Almighty God, that since thou hast deigned to adopt us as thy people, and to unite us…
This prayer comes at the end of ‘Lecture Eighth’ on Jeremiah, in which God bemoans the fact that “the whole people were unteachable….they were hard-necked and untameable; for he had tried to correct them by scourges, but effected nothing.” “Grant, Almighty God, that since thou, in thy paternal kindness, daily invitest us to thyself, we…
The context of this prayer, which comes at the end of Lecture 6 on Jeremiah, is the unreasonableness and illogicality of God’s people turning from all his kindness and grace toward them and relying on their own devices – “..my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and…
I have been aware previously of some examples of Calvin’s prayers that are recorded in various places, but have been struck by them again as I work my way through his commentary on Jeremiah. Calvin ends each lecture – for that is how these teachings were first given – with a prayer that picks up…