A17640:4010
Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah
A commentary upon the prophecy of Isaiah. By Mr. John Calvin. Whereunto are added four tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.A commentary vpon the prophecie of Isaiah. By Mr. Iohn Caluin. Whereunto are added foure tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston, 1609
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Our Prophet hath conjoined these two manners of teaching together, to wit, both the inward, and the outward. For he calls those the children of the Church, who are taught of the Lord: if they be children, then have they bin conceived in her womb, and nursed up in her lap, first with milk, afterward with strong meat, 1. Cor. 3.2. Hebr. 5.12.13.14. until they grow up, and become perfect men in Christ Jesus, as Paul speaks Ephes. 4.13. The outward ministry of the word then is required if we will be his disciples.
Our Prophet hath conioined these two maners of teaching together, to wit, both the inward, and the outward. For he calles those the children of the Church, who are taught of the Lord: if they be children, then haue they bin conceiued in her womb, and nurced vp in her lap, first with milke, afterward with strong meate, 1. Cor. 3.2. Hebr. 5.12.13.14. vntill they grow vp, and become perfect men in Christ Iesus, as Paul speakes Ephes. 4.13. The outward ministrie of the word then is required if we will be his disciples.
Whence it appears, how absurd and blockish the raving of those fantastical spirits is, who pervert this testimony, to overthrow the preaching of the word, and the ministry of the Church. For children of the Church can they not be,1 unless they will be nourished up in her lap. Let them go then with their secret revelations; for the holy Ghost teacheth none but such as submit themselves under the Churches ministry. Well may such be the disciples and children of Satan, but not of God, seeing they contemn the order which he hath established. For these two points, to wit, the children of the Church, and the scholars of God, are so linked together, that those who refuse to be taught of the Church shall never be Gods disciples.