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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.
Gainsaying and blaspheming. They were so sore set upon resisting, that they break out at length into Blasphemy. And Satan doth for the most part drive the wicked unto such madness, that when they be overcome with reasons and discouraged, they wax harder and harder, & wittingly & willingly they spue out at length blasphemies against God and the truth. Wherefore we must take so much the more heed, when as the truth of God is plainly set before us, least if we be carried away with a desire to speak against it, we fall straightway into that steep down.
Gainesaying and blaspheming. They were so sore set vpon resisting, that they breake out at length into Blasphemy. And Satan doth for the most part driue the wicked vnto such madnesse, that when they be ouercome with reasons and discouraged, they wax harder and harder, & wittingly & willingly they spue out at length blasphemies against God and the truth. Wherfore we must take so much the more heed, when as the truth of God is plainely set before vs, least if we be carried away with a desire to speake against it, we fall streightway into that steepe downe.
46 And when Paul and Barnabas had taken“ liberty, they said: It was necessary that we should first preach the word of God to you. And after that ye reject it, and do not judge your selves worthy of eternal life, behold we turn unto the Gentiles. ⟨p. 323⟩47 For thus hath the Lord commanded us: I have made thee a light of the gentiles: that thou mayest be the salvation unto the end of the earth. 48 And when the Gentiles heard, they rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord: and they believed, as many as were ordained unto eternal life. 49 And the word of the Lord was spread abroad throughout the whole Region. 50 And the Jews stirred certain religious and honest women, and the chief men of the City, and they raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. 51 And they shaked off the dust of their feet against them, & came to Iconium. 52 And the Disciples were filled with joy and with the holy Ghost.