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A little book of John Calvins concerning offences whereby at this day divers are…A little booke of Iohn Caluines concernynge offences whereby at this daye diuers are…
A little book of John Calvins concerning offences whereby at this day divers are feared, and many also quite withdrawn from the pure doctrine of the Gospel, a work very needful and profitable. Translated out of Latin into English by Arthur Golding.A little booke of Iohn Caluines concernynge offences whereby at this daye diuers are feared, and many also quight withdrawen from the pure doctrine of the Gospell, a woorke very needefull and profitable. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by Arthur Goldinge.
London: printed by H. Wykes, 1567
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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.
And if they seek at our hands for such as have ⟨p. 82⟩led the whole process of their life continually in virtue and glorious fame, we are not destitute of a very great number of such. I could name a great sort, who excelling sometime with high commendation in the Papistry, do now sithens they were endowed by God with pure knowledge of his Gospel, by expressing the lively image of virtue in their life, show themselves to have had no more but a shadow of it before. But least this talk may for some appearance of boasting be odious, I will conclude shortly. If the examples both of men & women do throughly move any body: singular godliness testified as well in death as life, uprightness, chastity, and temperance, ought to be much more available toward the confirmation of the faith, than it were meet that the disordered life of other men should annoy it.
And if they séeke at our handes for such as haue ⟨p. 82⟩ledde the whole processe of theyr life continually in vertue and glorious fame, we are not destitute of a very great number of suche. I could name a great sorte, who excellinge sometime with high cōmendaciō in the Papistrie, doo now sithens they were endewed by God with pure knowledge of his Gospell, by expressinge the liuely image of vertue in their life, shewe thēselues to haue had no more but a shadow of it before. But least this talke may for some appearance of boastynge be odious, I will conclude shortly. If the examples both of men & women doo throughly moue any bodie: singular godlynesse testified as well in death as life, vprightnesse, chastitie, and temperance, ought to be much more auaileable towarde the cō firmacion of the faith, than it were méete that the disordered life of othermē should anoye it.
Now let us pass to the last sort of Offences: which I said to consist partly of surmised slanders, & partly to spring of malicious cavillations, which froward men fetching a far of, do unjustly wrest upon the Gospel. Of slanders I purpose ⟨image 94⟩