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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.
The same blindness and blockishness doth at this day prick forward ⟨p. 533⟩the Papists, so that they think nothing unlawful for them in destroying us. Hypocrisy doth so blind their eyes, that as men freed from the laws of God and men, they are carried by their zeal sometimes unto treachery, sometimes unto guile, sometime unto intolerable cruelty: & finally, to attempt whatsoever they will. Moreover we see in this history how great the rashness of the wicked is. They bind themselves with a curse, that they will eat no meat till they have slain Paul: as if his life were in their hands. Therefore these brainsick men take to them selves that which the Lord doth so often in Scripture say is his, to wit,1 to have the life and death of those men whom he hath created in his hand. Moreover there be not only two or three who are partners in this madness, but more then forty. Whence we do also gather how willing and bent men are to do mischief seeing they run together thus on heaps.
The same blindnesse and blockishnes doth at this day prick forward ⟨p. 533⟩the Papists, so that they thinke nothing vnlawfull for them in destroying vs. Hypocrisie doth so blinde their eies, that as men freed from the lawes of God and men, they are carried by their zeale sometimes vnto trecherie, sometimes vnto guile, sometime vnto intollerable crueltie: & finally, to attempt whatsoeuer they will. Moreouer we see in this historie how great the rashnesse of the wicked is. They bind themselues with a curse, that they will eat no meat till they haue slaine Paul: as if his life were in their hands. Therefore these brainsick men take to them selues that which the Lord doth so often in Scripture say is his, to wit,1 to haue the life and death of those men whom hee hath created in his hande. Moreouer there bee not onely two or three who are partners in this madnesse, but more then fortie. Whence wee doe also gather how willing and bent men are to doe mischief seeing they runne together thus on heapes.
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