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The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the first Epistle of Saint John, and…The comentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the first Epistle of Sainct Ihon, and…
The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the first Epistle of Saint John, and upon the Epistle of Jude wherein according to the truth of the words of the holy Ghost, he most excellently openeth and cleareth the point of true justification with God, and sanctification by the Spirit of Christ, by the effects that he bringeth forth in the regeneration. Translated into English by W.H.The comentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the first Epistle of Sainct Ihon, and vpon the Epistle of Iude wherein accordyng to the truthe of the woordes of the holie Ghost, he most excellently openeth and cleareth the poinct of true iustification with God, and sanctification by the Spirit of Christ, by the effects that he bryngeth forthe in the regeneration. Translated into Englishe by W.H.
London: printed by John Kyngstone and T. East for John Harrison the younger, 1580London: printed by Ihon Kyngstone and T. East for Iohn Harrison the yonger, 1580
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.
Some others there are that take exceptions at whom they will, and albeit the Lord hath testified that there is no respect of persons with him,1 yet they fear not to uphold ⟨image 14⟩this imagination of their own, that in respect of profiting and practise of true godliness, every one in their place, it is more free for some men then for othersome, and for all men then for women. And that their such dreaming may appear the more gross, they let not to say, (with what purpose I leave to them selves) that a woman should not be more religious then her husband, forgetting belike, the approved examples of the Scriptures 1. Sam. 25.3. Luc. 8.3. 2And how many holy women are infinitely mentioned in the word, without any mention of their husbands fall, and holy Histories testify of very many, that have manfully given their lives for the Gospel, when their husbands have been backsliders, and some of them have persecuted their poor wives. And that they may be found to pervert the straight ways of the Lord, they say a man should not take to wife (as the like) one that is more religious then him self. I would ask these men whether a man may take a wife that is more wealthy then himself, if they grant that he may (as I trust they will easily do) then shall they be enforced to say, either, that the things of this world are more to be esteemed, then the heavenly blessings of the ⟨image 15⟩Spirit of God, and the transitory things of the body, more worth then the gifts of the mind, or that a man not only should: but also ought to make especial choice, as there are excellent blessings in the inner man.3 And if the wife must be in all things a helper, then in the chief things it were absurd to say she must be unapt to help. They may remember that the Lords people have from time to time, been forbidden to match themselves with the profane,4