A17694:21
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.
A Sermon wherein all Christians are exhorted to fly from outward Idolatry, upon the 4. verse of the 16. Psalm. I will not co••••••e with their sacrifices of blood, and their n••es shall not pass through my mouth.
A Sermon wherein all Christians are exhorted to flie from outward Idolatrie, vpon the 4. verse of the 16. Psalme. I will not co••••••e with their sacrifices of blood, and their n••es shall not passe through my mouth.
WE have here to handle a doctrine clear and easy enough, were it not that the most part of those which call them selves Christians, sought, I can not tell what manner of subtleties, to cloak their evil withal. The sum is, that after we know the living God to be our father, and Jesus Christ our redeemer, we ought to dedicate both our body and soul unto him, who by his infinite goodness hath adopted us for his children, and endeavour to do homage unto this so good a Saviour, for that it hath cost him so dear. And because we are bound not only to renounce all infidelity, but also too separate our selves from all superstitions, which are contrary as well to the service of God, as to the honour of his Son, & which can not agree with the pure doctrine of the Gospel, and the true confession of faith: I have said that this doctrine is easy enough of it self, and that there remaineth nothing but to put the same well in practise, saving that there are a sort of people that seek certain starting holes and subtle shifts, to the end they may not seem culpable, in that which is so greatly condemned by Gods own mouth. This ⟨image 8⟩cause constraineth us to dwell longer in the declaration of this matter, to the end that every one may know what is his duty, and that no man deceive himself, imagining that he is escaped by covering him self, as the common saying is, under a wet sack.