A17650:449
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
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.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
38 Now the iust shall liue by faith: but if any withdraw himselfe, my soule shall haue no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not they which withdraw our selves unto perdition, but follow faith unto the conservation of the soul.
39 But we are not they which withdraw our selues vnto perdition, but follow faith vnto the conseruation of the soule.
For ye have need of patience, Vers. 36 &c.] He saith that patience is necessary, §1not only because we must persevere unto the end, §2but also because Satan hath innumerable means to trouble us. Wherefore if we were not fortified with an invincible patience, 1our courage would quail us a thousand times, before we should ever attain to the middle of our course. True it is that the inheritance of eternal life is already assured us: but because this our life is appointed unto us as a place for to run our course in, we must endeavour to attain to the end thereof by patience. Now there are many stumbling blocks which present themselves before us in our way, which will not only offer to slack our pace, but wholly to break off our enterprises, unless we be furnished with a marvellous constancy to resist, by buckling our selves to withstand them. Satan goes about it finely by laying all sorts of encumbrances in our way, to discourage us. In a word, Christians shall never set two steps forward without weariness, if they be not supported by patience. Wherefore this is the only means which makes us to persevere constantly. Otherwise, we shall neither obey God, neither yet shall we ever enjoy the inheritance promised unto us, which he here calleth the promise, according to the figure called Metonymia.