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The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the Acts of the Apostles, faithfully translated…The commentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the Actes of the Apostles, faithfully translated…
The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the Acts of the Apostles, faithfully translated out of Latin into English for the great profit of our country-men, by Christopher Fetherstone student in divinityThe commentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the Actes of the Apostles, faithfully translated out of Latine into English for the great profite of our countrie-men, by Christopher Fetherstone student in diuinitie
Londini: printed by Thomas Dawson, 1585
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.
but he doth only show that they be without excuse, when as they be so blind in such clear light, as he saith in the first Chapter to the Romans. Therefore though mens senses fail them in seeking out God, yet have they no cloak for their fault,1 because though he offer himself to be handled and groped, they continue notwithstanding in a quandary: Concerning which thing we have spoken more in the fourteenth Chapter.
but he doth onely shew that they be without excuse, when as they be so blinde in such cleare light, as he saith in the first Chapter to the Romans. Therefore though mens senses faile thē in seeking out God, yet haue they no cloake for their fault,1 because though he offer himselfe to be handled and groped, they continue notwithstanding in a quandarie: Concerning which thing we haue spoken more in the fouerteenth Chapter.
- 1Rom. 1.20. Cap. 14.17
Though he be not far from every one of us. To the end he may the more touch the frowardness of men, he saith that God is not to be sought through many crooks, neither need we make any long journey to find him: because every man shall find him in himself, if so be it he will take any heed. By which experience we are convict that our dullness is not with out fault, which we had from the fault of Adam. For though no corner of the world be void of the testimony of gods glory: yet we need not go without our selves, to lay hold upon him. For he doth affect and move every one of us inwardly with his power in such sort, that our blockishness is like to a monster, in that in feeling him we feel him not. In this respect certain of the Philosophers called man the little world: because he is above all other creatures a token of gods glory, replenished with infinite miracles.