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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A little book of John Calvins concerning offences whereby at this day divers are feared, and many also quite withdrawn from the pure doctrine of the Gospel, a work very needful and profitable.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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
IT is agreed on & confessed by all men (right Honourable) that reason & understanding, maketh difference between mankind and other living Creatures, but how a true Christian may be known and discerned from an infidel and counterfeit, none perceiveth, save only such ⟨image 2⟩as give diligent heed to the written woo[…], wherein we may find that […] everlasting to know one God and […] he hath sent, that they are blessed which hear the word of God and keep it, that not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but he that doth the will of the heavenly Father. Whereby it is evident, that wicked Infidels are either altogether void of the […] ledge of God, or else far from […] walk accordingly, if they have […] to any understanding thereo• […] the true Christian, not only laboureth […] behold the grace of God, which bringeth salvation to all men, but also learneth to renounce impiety and worldly lusts▪ and to live soberly, justly, and godly, in this present world, and looking for that blessed hope, and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, walketh all the days of his life, in holiness and righteousness, not after mens devise & fantasy, but according to the rules and ordinances, which God hath prescribed. And yet beside the sleights ⟨image 2⟩of Satan, the frailness of the flesh, and the wickedness of the world, we may easily see how the malice of men stayeth and hindereth the children of God from proceeding in that they have professed, while some are driven to stagger at the prosperity of wicked: when they see them neither troubled nor plagued as other men are: either to fear their power when they see the Kings of the Earth band themselves, and the Princes confederate •••ther against the Lord, and his anointed, and every good man with grief of heart, enforced to complain with David: how long will ye imagine mischief, ye shall be all slain, ye shall be as a bowed wall, or as a wall shaken. They consult to cast him down from his dignity, their delight is in lies, they bless with their mouths, and curse with their hearts. It is not unknown what hath been concluded in the Council of Trent, what confederacy and conspiracy, the Roman Antichrist hath made, with other great Princes, against the doctrine of God, and such as profess it.