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The lectures or daily sermons, of that reverend divine, D. John Calvin, pastor of…The lectures or daily sermons, of that reuerend diuine, D. Iohn Caluine, pastor of…
The lectures or daily sermons, of that reverend divine, D. John Calvin, pastor of the Church of God in Geneva, upon the prophet Jonah, by N.B. student in Divinity. Whereunto is annexed an excellent exposition of the two last epistles of S. John, done in Latin by that worthy doctor, August. Marlorate, and englished by the same N.B.The lectures or daily sermons, of that reuerend diuine, D. Iohn Caluine, pastor of the Church of God in Geneua, vpon the prophet Ionas, by N.B. student in Diuinitie. Whereunto is annexed an excellent exposition of the two last epistles of S. Iohn, done in Latin by that worthy doctor, August. Marlorate, and englished by the same N.B.
London: printed by J. Charlewood for Edward White, 1578
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¶A Catholic and Ecclesiastical exposition upon the two last Epistles of John. Collected out of the works of the best Writers by Augustin Marlorat, that excellent Divine.
¶A Catholike and Ecclesiasticall exposition vpon the two last Epistles of Iohn. Collected out of the workes of the best Writers by Augustin Marlorat, that excellent Diuine.
The Argument. Although this second Epistle be called the Epistle of John, 1although of the Author thereof,2 there were no doubt (for that it doth immediately follow that Epistle which no man doubteth to be the Epistle of John the Evangelist.) Many of the Interpreters notwithstanding make a doubt thereof, some also flatly deny that they came both from one, & the self same author: but say that this Epistle is a sacred monument of some one godly man, a faithful dispenser of the word, which would not that the Talent committed unto him from Christ that chief King, being wrapped in a clout, should be committed to the earth or hidden in the ground, but rather transferred to the money changers: which opinion truly seemeth probable enough.3 Others would have one John a certain Elder to be the author of this Epistle, because in the title or inscription of the Epistle, he calleth him self not an Apostle, but a senior or elder. Othersome again have affirmed not this alone, but also that following, which is entitled the third Epistle of John, to be written by John the Evangelist, that beloved disciple of Christ and Apostle, and not without probable conjecture. For they seem like to the first,4 which is the Epistle of John the Evangelist, both in words, and assertion of faith ⟨image 84⟩