1564 HT: Christianity.com On this day, February 6, 1564, an era came to an end. The man who had done as much as any other to forge the theology of the Reformation, preached his last sermon. Unable to walk, John Calvin was carried to church in a chair. His mouth filled with blood as he spoke and…
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…
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…