A17643:952
Commentary upon the Epistle to the Romans
A commentary upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans, written in Latin by M. John Calvin, and newly translated into English by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessary table for the better and more ready finding out of certain principal matters contained in this workA commentarie vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes, written in Latine by M. Iohn Caluin, and newely translated into Englishe by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessarie table for the better and more readie finding out of certayne principall matters conteyned in this worke
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for John Harison and George Bishop, 1583London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Iohn Harison and George Bishop, 1583
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
12 Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, persevering in prayer.
12 Reioycing in hope, patiente in tribulation, perseuering in prayer.
13 Communicating to the necessity of the Saints, following after hospitality.
13 Communicating to the necessitie of the Saintes, following after hospitalitie.
9 Let love be without dissimulation. Now, he being about to speak of particular duties, very fitly he beginneth at charity, which is the bond of all perfection. And concerning that, he commandeth (as it is often necessary) that all dissimulations laid a part, it might proceed from pure sincerity of mind. For it is a hard matter to say, how wise for the most part all men are to counterfeit Charity,1 which in deed they have not. For they do not only deceive others but also them selves, whiles they persuade them selves, that, they are beloved very well of them, whom they themselves do not only neglect, but also in trueth reject. Therefore Paul here denounceth that only for Charity, which is void of all dissimulation: and every man may easily bear witness him self, whither he have any thing in the secrete of his heart, that is against Charity. These words of good and evil, which follow straightways in the text, have not a general ⟨image 181⟩signification: but he hath put evil for that malicious iniquity, whereby men are hurt: and good, for that bountifulness, whereby they are holpen. And here is an usual antithesis of the scripture, when vices are first forbidden, and virtues then commanded.