A17683:418
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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Vers. 3 ¶For I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came, and testified of the truth that is in thee, how thou walkest in the truth.
Ʋers. 3 ¶For I reioyced greatlie when the brethren came, and testified of the truth that is in thee, how thou walkest in the truth.
1For I greatly rejoiced. He rejoiceth first that he received the trueth, and next that he walketh therein with the great praise of the brethren. As if he should say: No small pleasure have I taken by the voice of the brethren, which came unto us, and gave testimony of thine integrity, or were even as true witnesses of thine integrity, as thou truly dost follow the Evangelical verity, not in profession only, but also in deed, in study, and in all thy whole life. It followeth: Even as thou walkest (or how thou walkest) in the trueth. To walk in the trueth, is to lead a godly life according to the rule of verity without all counterfaicy and simulation. For by Walk in this place,2 he meaneth not a moving of the legs (seeing that such kind of going, passing from place to place, is common to all living creatures that have feet:) but he meaneth an ordered and temperate going forward according to the earnest affect of the mind, which few men, yea even of those which are not void of understanding, do attain unto.3 For it is not enough to have known the trueth, except we walk in the same, that is, fashion our lives, words and deeds, according unto it. This Paul calleth to walk in the spirit: