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Four godly sermons against the pollution of idolatries comforting men in persecutions, and teaching…Foure godlye sermons agaynst the pollution of idolatries comforting men in persecutions, and teachyng…
Four godly sermons against the pollution of idolatries comforting men in persecutions, and teaching them what commodities they shall find in Christs church, which were preached in French by the most famous clerk John Calvin, and translated first into Latin and afterward into English by divers godly learned men.Foure godlye sermons agaynst the pollution of idolatries comforting men in persecutions, and teachyng them what commodities thei shal find in Christes church, which were preached in French by the moste famous clarke Ihon Caluyne, and translated fyrst into Latine and afterward into Englishe by diuers godly learned men.
London: printed by Rouland Hall, 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.
It is with this as with the these who braggeth and boasteth himself then more highly and, gloriously, when he hath won and is clothed with the spoils of him whom he hath slain & whose horse he rideth on. We, say they, seek the supper of Jesus Christ, and when we can not being oppressed under that tyranny, where in we dwell, have the same pure, we must be content with that which is left to us, looking for the helping hand of God. For such a goodly and pretty excuse. By cause they have no, right and perfect use, of the supper, as though they had gotten a provision, they witness and openly profess that they have not Jesus Christ the eternal and only priest and therefore every week do seek a new sacrifice, to put away their sins. For all this is in the high mass, as well as in that which is said in the name of Nicholas or for the dead. In which thing they ⟨image 17⟩fain them selves to worship an idol, & yet do boast that they seek Jesus Christ: and because they would not seem to fight against god without sword or buckler, they bring & object the authority of this or that man, as though the absolution of any one man may exempt and deliver them that they be not condemned of god. I will not say that they lye grievously, when they allege such men as they do for the defence of their cause. But in case it were so that a devout and godly man, were sometime of this mind, that he thought it was nothing evil to come to the high mass, yet afterward when he knoweth the truth, if he doth disallow and condemn his former judgement, his latter is so much the more to be believed, for that God hath brought him, or rather compelled him to disallow the same, & because he perceiveth & plainly knoweth that he is overcome in that thing which he before did greatly embrace & allow. But what need we herein to stir the truth, as if we should blunder and trouble a water that is pure and clear. Do they think that with the judgment and saying of a mortal man they may stop ⟨image 18⟩god and hedge him in?
It is with this as wt the thefe who braggeth and bosteth himself then more highly and, gloriouslye, when he hath wōne and is clothed with the spoiles of him whom he hath slaine & whose horse he rideth on. We, saie they, seke the supper of Iesus Christe, and when we can not being opprest vnder that tyrannie, wher in we dwell, haue the same pure, we must be content with that which is left to vs, loking for the helping hand of God. For such a goodly and pretie excuse. By cause they haue no, right and perfect vse, of the supper, as though thei had gotten a prouison, they witness and openly profess that they haue not Iesus Christe the eternall and only preste and therfore euerie weke do seke a new sacrifice, to put away their sinnes. For all this is in ye high masse, as wel as in that which is saide in the name of Nicholas or for the dead. In which thing they