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,…

A sermon / where in all Christians are admonished to fly the outward Idolatry / taken out of the iij. verse of the xvj. Psalm: I will not communicate with their bloody sacrifices / nether will j take their names in my mouth.

A sermon / wher in all Christianes ar admonished to flye the outward Idolatrie / taken out of ye iij. verse of the xvj. Psalme: I will not coīcate wt their bloudye sacrifices / nether will j take their names in my mouth.

The doctrine which we shall entreat in this place / is plain enough and easy / saving that the greatest part of those that profess them selves to be Christians / do seek out and bring / j can not tell what subtleties to cloak their evil withal. But the sum of this whole doctrine is / that after we know the living god to be our father / & Jesus Christ our redeemer / we ought to consecrate both body and soul unto him / who of his infinite goodness hath taken us in to the number of his sons: and to acknowledge withal kind of benevolence / honour / & obedience / the same benefit which our most dear Saviour did vouch safe to bestow on us after he had bought it with so great a price. And because we are bound not only to renounce all infidelity / but also to separate our selves from all superstitions / which ⟨image 21⟩do as well disagree with the true service of god as the honour of his son / and which can by no means agree with the pure doctrine of the gospel and true confession of the faith / j said this doctrine of it self to be so easy / that only the practise and exercise there of ought to remain unto us / saving that many men do seek certain deceitful shifts / through which they will not be overcome in that thing / the which is most chiefly condemned by gods own mouth. This cause constraineth us at this time to tarry longer in the declaration of this matter / that every man may know his own duty / and deceive not him self / thinking that he is escaped when he is covered / as the common saying is / under a wet sack. But for that there be many of this opinion / whose churches are thoroughly purged from the filthiness / and idolatries of the papism / that this argument or treatise is but superfluous / before we pass any further / it is not unprofitable to declare such men most foully to be deceived. First when it is declared / how great an offence it is / for us to be polluted and defiled with the idolaters / feigning our selves to cleave and consent to their impieties / wear admonished to mourn for our former sins / & to ask of god forgiveness of them / withal humbleness /