Scripture Texts with Expositions and Sentence-prayers 


John Calvin 


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JOHN CALVIN r 


SCRIPTURE 
LEATS 


with EXPOSITIONS and 
SENTENCE-PRAYERS 


from Galvin’s Commentaries 


on the Minor Prophets 





The prayers of John Calvin, however, have received little attention, as compared with the fame 
which crowns his theological writings. His commentaries upon Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and 
the minor prophets were originally delivered in the form of lectures, each followed by appropriate 
petitions. Both lectures and prayers were extemporaneous. In his epistle dedicatory, prefaced to the 
commentary upon the minor prophets, and addressed to the King of Sweden, Calvin says: “Had it 
been in my power I would rather have tried to prevent the wider circulation of that extemporane- 
ous kind of teaching, intended for the particular benefit of my auditory, and with which benefit I 
was abundantly satisfied.” John Budaeus, in another preface, piously exhorts that we pray for the 
Spirit of God, that we may come to the reading of Scripture instructed by him. “And for this end,” 
he says, “much help may be given us by the short prayers which we have taken care to add at the 
close of every lecture as gathered by us with the same care and fidelity as the lectures were ; and the 
ignorant may also have in these a pattern, as it were, painted before them, by which they may form 
their prayers from the words of Scripture. For as at the beginning of the lectures he ever used the 
same form of prayer, so he was wont ever to finish every lecture by a new prayer formed at the time, 
as given him by the Spirit of God, and accommodated to the subject of the lecture.” 


— From the introduction 


Read in English by InTheDesert. 


E Hosea - iA Joel . EE] Amos - BY] Obadiah and Jonah - BY Micah 
A Nahum and Habakkuk. [J] Zephaniah - EE] Haggai - EY Zechariah - RJ Malachi 


Genre(s): Christianity - Commentary OJ 2 | Q) 0L59:34 


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