A17694:52
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.
It is meet for us therefore to begin at this point, thoroughly to know what our Christianity is, what manner of faith it is, that we have to hold and to follow, and what rule it is that God hath given unto us: and that we be so thoroughly ⟨p. 15⟩armed with such insti••• […] able, boldly to condemn, all the fal••••••es, error• and superstitions, that Satan hath brought in to corrupt the pure simplicity of Gods doctrine. Wherefore a man ought not at this day […], if he see not many people which are disposed to suffer for the Gospel: and that the most part of th•se which are named Christians know not what christianity is. For all are, as it were ignorant, and they make no reckoning too hear o• to read but it […] have some little taste of the Christian faith. And this is the cause that there are very fe•• settled, and if they be assaulted they are found straightway to be scattered. This ought to stir […] to […] diligently after […] of God, to the […] certain thereof. But yet this is not all, that […] thoroughly instr•••ed & •••ght. For we may see that those which […] to be (as it were) altogether settled in good doctrine, who• […] affection in them, […] if they had never knowe• any thing of GOD, unless it be by some flying fantasy. And why is this, unless it be because they never comprehended the majesty of the holy Scripture And in deed […] consider that it is go• that had spoken […] it is very certain that we should be […] att••••• to hearken, & also do it with greater reverence. When we should think that in reading the holy Scripture, we are in the school of Angels: we should have another manner of care and desire, to exercise our selves in that doctrine that is set forth unto us. We see now what manner of mean it is, whereby we should prepare our selves to suffer for the Gospel to wit, that we have profited ⟨image 22⟩