A17694:63
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.
Now there are not only two or three of them, […] a thick and great cloud, 1as the Apostle saith in the Epistle to the Heb. Whereby he signifieth th•• the number is so great, that it ought as it were even […] •p our eyes. And that I be not too tedious, I […] only the example of the Jews, which were persecuted for true Religion, aswell under the tyranny of Antiochus the King, as also a little after his death. We cannot allege that it was a small number of people: for there were then as it were a great army of Martyrs. W•• cannot say that it was of Prophets, whom God had separated from the common people for the women & young infants were of this company. We cannot say that they were let go for any prise: for they were tormented as cruelly as was possible. We hear also that which the Apostle showeth us thereof.2 Some (saith he) were hanged up like belles and ••ked making no account to be delivered, to the end• they might receive a better resurrecti•• Others were tried by •••kings and scou•ging• y•• by ban••• and prisonment others were […] or […] •sunder: other wandered up and down hither and thither, in wildernesses by […] and Caves. Let us now enter to make comparison of them with us. If they suffered for the trueth of God, which was yet so dark at that time, what ought we to do in this great light that shineth now? God hath spoken unto us as it were with full mouth: the great Gate of the kingdom of Heaven is opened, Jesus Christ hath called us unto him, being come down unto us, to the end that we should have him, as it were present before our eyes. And what a shame shall it be unto us too have less zeal to suffer for the Gospel, then they had which only saluted and beheld the promises of GOD, as it were a far off? ⟨image 29⟩