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Four sermons of Master John Calvin entreating of matters very profitable for our time,…Foure sermons of Maister Iohn Caluin entreating of matters very profitable for our time,…
Four sermons of Master John Calvin entreating of matters very profitable for our time, as may be seen by the preface: with a brief exposition of the LXXXVII. Psalm. Translated out of French into English by John Field.Foure sermons of Maister Iohn Caluin entreating of matters very profitable for our time, as may bee seene by the preface: with a briefe exposition of the LXXXVII. Psalme. Translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Iohn Fielde.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Thomas Man, 1579
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 I have friends who relieve me through their liberality, I am called to live by my labour: what shall I do in a strange country without penny or halfpenny being altogether unknown, having no favour nor maintenance? And it may be that these excuses may be in part true: and without any further inquiry I grant unto all, that it is a very bitter & troublesome thing, not only to forsake the country where we were borne, but any place wherein we have dwelt. Notwithstanding, all these devise how they may set lets and stops before themselves that they come not too GOD: that is to say, although they find, not only things so hard as they make them: ⟨image 53⟩yet they willingly shroud them selves under any pretext or colour whatsoever. Which is more, when they have made their goodly complaints, they think that they have stopped Gods mouth, & if that he would press them any farther, that he doth them great wrong, as though he compelled them to an impossible matter. To this I have no other answer, but that which is written in the 84.1 Psalm, to wit, That the faithful going by the dry valleys and deserts, to go unto the Temple of God, shall dig unto them selves pits or cisterns. And I believe that this is sufficient enough to tame all those, who will not through obstinate malice resist God.
but I haue friends who relieue me through their liberalitie, I am called to liue by my labor: what shal I do in a strange countrey without peny or halpeny being altogeather vnknowen, hauing no fauour nor maintenance? And it may be that these excuses may be in parte true: and without any further inquirie I graunt vnto all, that it is a very bitter & troublesome thing, not onely to forsake the countrey where we were borne, but any place wherin we haue dwelt. Notwithstanding, al these deuise howe they may set lets and stops before thēselues that they come not too GOD: that is to say, although they find, not onely things so hard as they make them: ⟨image 53⟩yet they willingly shroude them selues vnder any pretext or colour whatsoeuer. Which is more, when they haue made their goodly complaynts, they thinke that they haue stopt Gods mouth, & if that he would presse them any farther, that hee dooth them greate wrong, as though he compelled them to an impossible matter. To this I haue no other aunswere, but that which is written in the 84.