Certain homilies of m. Joan Calvin containing profitable and necessary, admonitio[n] for this time,…Certaine homilies of m. Ioan Calvine conteining profitable and necessarie, admonitio[n] for this time,…

¹There is no disciple better then his instructor / nor no servant above his master / it may suffice the scholar to be as his teacher and the servant as his master. If they have called the master of the household be elzebul / how much more his household servants. But fear them not saith Christ. But when thes spiritual preachers call us carnal gospellers what mean they there by? Mean they that we be sinners / & that our flesh is not so subdued / but that it will lust against the spirit? Or mean they that we have pleasure in sin and in sinners? Or they call us sinners because we could not live chaste / that is / godlily without a wife? ⟨image 8⟩If they mean after the first sort / we confess with the publican / that we be sinners / and say with .s. Paul / that the flesh striveth against the spirit / & that spirit against the flesh / in so much that we do not those things the which we would fain do. If they understand their carnal gospellers after the second sort / we have to thank them; that they will both show plainly whose children they are (for here in they resemble the old pharisees) & also that they will serve us here in as the pharisees did Christ / for the self same thing was in this wise laid to his charge of them / and hath continued a common practice sense that time till now / and is not like to decay in thes mens hands / but if it be against there will. After our saviour Christ had dismissed Joannes disciples and preached to the people / they praised god / but the pharisees and the lawyers despised gods coū shall / and said / tush he is but a glutton / and a swill boll / a bolsterer of publicans and sinners. This was a common objection and slander that the pharisees used to deface Christs preaching / & dissuade the people from it / for he receiveth / say they / sinners / and eateth with them.

¹Ther is no disciple better then his instructour / nor no servant above his master / it may suffice ye scholer to be as his teacher and the servaunt as his master. Yf they have called ye master of the houshold be elzebul / how moche more his houshold servaū tes. But fear them not saith Christ. But when thes spirituall preachers call vs carnall gospelours what meā thei ther by? Meane thei that we be sinners / & that our flesh is not so subdued / but that it will lust against the spirit? Or mean they that we have pleasure in sinne and in sinners? Or they call vs sinners because we could not lyve chast / yt is / godlily wtout a wif?