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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
An exposition upon the 87. Psalm. › Verse 4An exposition vpon the 87. Psalme. › Verse 4
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.
Ver. 4. I will rehearse Rahab and Babylon amongest them that know me: behold Palestine and Tyre, with Ethiopia, he was borne there.
Ver. 4. I will rehearse Rahab and Babylon amongest them that knowe mee: beholde Palestine and Tyrus, with Aethiopia, he was borne there.
The name of Rahab is put aswell in other places of the Scripture for Egypt: and here it very well agreeth to this sentence: For the Prophets mind is too describe the excellent and glorious estate of the Church which then was hid. He saith therefore that they who before had been deadly enemies, or were altogether strangers unto it, should not only be her familiar friends but as it were engrafted into one body, too the end too be accounted for Citizens of Jerusalem. I will put (saith he) into mine account, or I will enrol Egypt and Babylon, amongest my familiars or household ones. Further he addeth that the Philistines they of Tyre and ⟨image 63⟩Ethiopia, who hitherto had had great discord with the people of God, should be unto him as good friends, as if they were the natural borne of Jewry. Now in speaking so thereof he specifieth a singular dignity of the Church of GOD: and that is that they which did despise it, and did wish it too be utterly razed and destroyed, should gather themselves round about unto it, yea, and should account it for a great honour too be enrolled and acknowledged amongest his people. For the Prophet signifieth that all of their own accord, should renounce their own natural Countries, wherein tofore they put all their glory. This is therefore as much as if he should say, that from what quarter soever men were borne, were it in Palestine, in Tyre or Ethiopia, they should be glad and well a paid too be numbered with the people of God and acknowledged for Citizens of Jerusalem. The Rabbins of the Jews, make a crooked gloss of this place, that is, that from other nations of the world, there shall come very few excellent men, in wit or virtue: but that in their race there shall be a great number. As though it were said that there will be hardly found a man worthy of praise in any country. So as they may be pointed at which are such with the finger: But that in Zion there shall be great abundance.