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A sermon of the famous and Godly learned man, master John Calvin chief Minister…A sermon of the famous and Godly learned man, master Iohn Caluine chiefe Minister…
A sermon of the famous and Godly learned man, master John Calvin chief Minister and Pastor of Christs church at Geneva, containing an exhortation to suffer persecution for following Jesus Christ and his Gospel, upon this text following. Heb. 13. 13. Go ye out of the tents after Christ, bearing his rebuke. Translated out of French into english,A sermon of the famous and Godly learned man, master Iohn Caluine chiefe Minister and Pastour of Christs church at Geneua, conteining an exhortation to suffer persecution for followinge Iesus Christe and his Gospell, vpon this text following. Heb. 13. 13. Go ye out of the tents after Christe, bearing his rebuke. Translated out of French into english,
London: printed by Robert Waldegrave for Edward White, 1581London: printed by Robert VValdegraue for Edward VVhite, 1581
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.
But if we have patience to wait, God will show in the end that it is not in vain that he hath set such an high price upon our life,1 In the mean time, if he doth us no evil, that it serveth to ratify his gospel, which in worthiness surmounteth heaven and earth. And the better to assure us that God leaveth us not in the hands of Tyrants, as having forsaken us, let us call to mind the sentence of Jesus Christ, where he saith, that it is he whom they persecute in his members.
But if we haue patience to wait, God will shew in the ende that it is not in vayne that he hath set suche an high price vpon our life,1 In the mean time, if he doth vs no euil, yt it serueth to ratifie his gospel, which in worthinesse surmounteth heauen and earth. And the better to assure vs that God leaueth vs not in the handes of Tyrants, as hauing forsaken vs, let vs call to minde the sentence of Iesus Christe, where he sayth, that it is he whome they persecute in his members.
- 1The constancy of martyrs is the work of God.The constancy of martirs is the worke of God.
God had well said before by Zechariah, He that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of mine eye. 1But this is yet more plain, that if we suffer for the Gospel, it is as if the Son of God were there in his own person. Wherefore let us know that Jesus Christ must forget himself, if he should not ⟨p. 18⟩think of us when we are in prison, or in danger of death for his cause: And let us know that God taketh to his own heart all the outrages that Tyrants do unto us, as if they were fastened to his own son.