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The Institution of Christian Religion
The institution of Christian religion, written in Latin by master John Calvin, and translated into English according to the authors last edition. Seen and allowed according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctionsThe institution of Christian religion, vvrytten in Latine by maister Ihon Caluin, and translated into Englysh according to the authors last edition. Seen and allowed according to the order appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions
London: printed by Reinolde Wolfe & Richard Harison, 1561London: printed by Reinolde VVolfe & Richarde Harison, 1561
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.
That ⟨image 67⟩trees likewise and vines being warned by him, do first bud and shoot forth branches, and after send out a flower, and of a flower do engender fruit?1 But the Lord because he would claim the whole glory of all these things to himself, made the light first to be, and the earth to be furnished with all kinds of herbs and fruits before that he created the sun. A godly man therefore will not make, the sun to be ether a principal or a necessary cause of those things which were before the creation of the sun, but only an instrument which God useth because it so pleaseth him, whereas he might leave it & do all things as easily by himself. Then when we read that the sun stood still two days in one degree at yt prayer of Joshua,2 and that the shadow thereof went back ten degrees for Hezekiah his sake, by those few miracles God hath declared that the sun doth not daily so rise and go down by blind instinct of nature, but that he to renew the remembrance of his fatherly favour toward us, doth govern the course thereof. Nothing is more natural than spring tide to come immediately after winter, summer after spring, & harvest in course after summer. But in this orderly course is plainly seen so great and so unequal diversity, that it may easily appear that every year, month and day, is governed by a new and special Providence of God.
That ⟨image 67⟩trees likewise and vines being warned by him, do first budde and shote forth braunches, and after sende out a flower, and of a flower do engē der frute?1 But the Lord because he would claime the whole glory of all these thinges to himselfe, made the lighte first to be, and the earth to be furnished with al kindes of herbes and fruites before that he created ye sunne. A godly man therfore wil not make, the sunne to be ether a principal or a necessary cause of those thinges which were before the creation of ye sunne, but only an instrumēt which God vseth because it so pleaseth him, wheras he might leaue it & do al thinges as easily by himselfe. Then when we rede yt the sunne stode stil two daies in one degree at yt praier of Iosua,