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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.
He doth not here speak what is profitable or comfortable for the multitude but in this petition having only regard of his own profit and wealth, he doth witness most plainly, that he neither ⟨image 52⟩wisheth nor desireth any thing more earnestly, then to be in that company & assembly of the people of god, wherein he may declare his faith, and may confirm and edify himself, by the holy sacraments and the wholesome doctrine there preached. Nether giveth, he this testimony in this place only but also in many other he declareth his most fervent desire to the same as in the former psal. he saith, O lord I love the habitation of thy house, and the place wherein thy glory hath his residence. Again psalm .xlii. like as the Hind brayeth for the water brooks so my soul panteth after god my soul is a thirst for God even, for the living God saying, when shall I come and appear, before god? It had been enough to have said these words but his vehement affection doth carry him higher. For immediately he addeth that he was fed with tears in stead of bread all that time that he was absent & cold not come to the temple of god. And he furthermore adjoined that this heart is poured forth like water, within him self, for the remembrance of that time when he come to the, temple with the ⟨image 53⟩multitude of the faithful to praise God Then after so many & so great mornings and wailings, and desires most lamentably oppressed, he findeth no better comfort then in that expectation and hope which he conceiveth of god, that he will restore again unto him the benefit & comfort which he had lost. My soul saith he why art thou so vexed so unquiet and troubled within me? put thy trust in God for I will yet give him thanks for the comfort of his countenance. And in the .lxxxiiii. psalm he declareth an especial desire of going to the tabernacle and visiting, the court of God, for after he had made an exclamation. O lord of hosts how amiable is thy tabernacle? he saith that his heart and body did leap and dance for the earnest desire to enter into the court of the lord, and he giveth this reason: for they are all Blessed that dwell in the house of God: because they do praise him, that is to say they acknowledge his benefits with a thankful mind and with one commune consent and yielding a confession of their faith do glorify him.
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