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A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated…A commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated…
A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated out of FrenchA commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated out of French
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Johnson, 1605London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Iohnson, 1605
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9 But beloved, we have persuaded our selves better things of you, and such as accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
9 But beloued, we haue perswaded our selues better things of you, and such as accompanie saluation, though we thus speake.
10 For God is not unrighteous, that he should forget your work, and labour of love, which ye showed towards his name, in that ye have ministered unto the Saints, and yet minister.
10 For God is not vnrighteous, that hee should forget your worke, and labour of loue, which ye shewed towards his name, in that ye haue ministred vnto the Saints, and yet minister.
For the earth &c.] Vers. 7 It is a very fit similitude to move our affections to the desire of profiting in due season. For as the earth cannot bring forth good corn in harvest, unless the feed spring up soon after it is cast into the ground: so if we will become good fruit, the Lord no sooner soweth his word, but it should forthwith take root in us, and should also show the power of it in our lives. For it is not to be expected ⟨p. 119⟩it should ever bring forth fruit in us, if we either suffer it to be choked, or to be corrupted in us. But as the similitude is very fit; so also are we wisely to apply it to the Apostles meaning. The earth, saith he, which drinks in the rain, presently after seed time if it brings not forth of the kernel a bastard or wild grass, is at the length brought to the ripeness of good corn, by the blessing of God: so also they that receive the seed of the Gospel into their hearts, and of this seed do bring forth a good and natural blade, do always grow better and better, till they bring forth ripe fruit. Contrariwise, the earth which hath been ploughed and watered, and yet brings forth nothing but thorns and briars, gives no hope to the reaper: Ver. 8 but which is worse, the more that which is come forth groweth, the more is he left hopeless.