Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially…Commentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially…

Name: Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially…
Author: John Calvin

Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially for the use of the family of the right honourable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glass, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by considering the text, meditating the sense thereof, and by prayerCommentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially for the vse of the family of the ryght honorable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glasse, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by consideryng the text, meditatyng the sense therof, and by prayer

John Calvin 1509–1564London: printed by John Daye, 1570London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1570

[12], 120 leaves · 93k words · STC 4397 · ESTC S107376

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Preface: ❧ John Calvin to all the true worshippers of God, which desire the kingdom of Christ…Preface: ❧ Iohn Caluine to all the true worshippers of God, which desire the kyngdome of Christ…

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And the Prophet hath not only encouraged us by the examples of those times to hope and to patience, but he hath joined an exhortation taught by the holy spirit, which is extended to the whole kingdom of Christ, and is peculiar unto us.

And the Prophet hath not onely encouraged vs by the examples of those tymes to hope and to patience, but he hath ioyned an exhortation taught by the holy spirite, which is extended to the whole kyngdome of Christ, and is peculiar vnto vs.

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Wherefore let it not be grievous unto us to be comprehended amongest the number of them, who as Daniel saith: Must be tried by fire that they may be made white: seeing that the inestimable felicity and glory which springeth thereof, doth more then sufficiently recompense all the griefs of the cross. And though many can feel no taste in this doctrine, but think it unsavoury, yet may not their dullness or sluggishness make us the more slothful: and therefore must we print deeply in our hearts that which the Prophet straight way pronounceth: that the wicked shall do wickedly, because they will understand nothing: but the children of God shall be endued with the knowledge of God, that they may keep the right course of their godly vocation. And it is necessary to consider the fountain of that brutish blindness, that the heavenly doctrine may be savoury unto us. For there is none other cause why the most part doth despise Christ and his Gospel, but for that they carelessly flatter them selves in sin, and are neither wakened with any fear, neither with the sense of their miseries, neither with the terror of Gods wrath, to desire earnestly and fervently the redemption which only doth deliver us from the bottomless depth of eternal destruction: and in the mean time being snared with pleasures and other allurements, or rather bewitched thereby, they are all together careless of the blessed eternity of the other life. And though there be many and sundry sects of them that contemptuously despise the doctrine of the Gospel, and in some of them pride is more evident, in some others tender weakness, in others a certain drunkenness of the mind, in others a sleepy dullness: yet shall we find that this contempt cometh of a profane careless security: because that no man doth enter into him self, to examine his own miseries to find a remedy for them.

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Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially…Commentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially…

❧ The Lectures and readings of John Calvin upon Daniel. ¶

❧ The Lectures and readynges of Iohn Caluine vpon Daniel. ¶

❧ Meditations upon the book of Daniel the Prophet, with certain Prayers collected forth of the Lessons of that divine Calvin, rather for the comfort of the conscience then orderly translated, in the two first Chapters, but afterward you have the whole Commentary.

❧ Meditations vpon the booke of Daniel the Prophet, with certaine Prayers collected forth of the Lessons of that diuine Caluine, rather for the comfort of the conscience then orderly translated, in the two first Chapters, but afterward you haue the whole Commentary.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36