Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Isaiah 55

^{1 !} An exhortationn to come to Christ.

^{1 b} Signifying, that Gods benefites can not be froght for money.

^{1 a} Christ by proposing his graces & gifts to his Church exempteth the hypocrites which are ful with thei imagined workes & the Epicures, which are ful with their worldelie lusts & so thirst most after these waters.

^{1 c} By waters, wine, milke, & bread, he meaneth all things necessarie to the spiritual life, as these are necessarie to this corporal life.

^{2 d} He reproueth their ingratitude, which refuse those things that God offreth willingly, and in the meane time spare nether cost nor labour to obteine those, which are nothing profitable.

^{2 e} You shalbe fed abundantly.

^{3 f} The same couenant, which through my mercie, I ratified & confirmed to Dauid that it shulde be eternal, {2 Sam. 7,13}, {act 13,34}.

^{4 g} Meaning, Christ, of whome Dauid was a signe.

^{5 h} To wit, the Gentiles, which before thou didest not receiue to by thy people.

^{6 i} When he offreth him self by the preaching of his worde.

^{7 k} Hereby he sheweth that repentance must by joyned with faith, & how we can not call vpon God aright, except the frutes of our faith appeare.

^{8 !} Gods counsels are not as mans.

^{8 l}Althogh you are not sone reconciled one to another & judge me by your selues, yet I am most easie to reconciled, yea I offer my mercies to you.

^{11 m} If these smale things haue their effect, as daiely experience sheweth, muche more shal my promes which I haue made & confirmed, bring to passe the thing whichI haue spoken for your deliuerance.

^{12 !} Thy joy of the faithful.

^{12 n} Read {Chap 44,23; 49,13}

^{13 o} To set forth his glorie.

^{13 p} Of Gods deliuerance, & that he wil, neuer forsake his Church.