A17694:69
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.
❧ The third Sermon showing how the Faithful ought too esteem the being in the Church of GOD, where they have free liberty purely to worship God, gathered upon the theme of the 27. Psalm. I have required one thing of the Lord,1 and that I will require: it is, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, too the end I may he hold the beauty of the Lord and may visit his holy Temple.
❧ The third Sermon shewing how the Faithfull ought too esteeme the beeyng in the Churche of GOD, where they haue free libertie purely to woorship God, gathered vpon the theame of the 27. Psalme. I haue required one thing of the Lorde,1 and that I wil require: it is, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the daies of my lyfe, too the end I may he hold the beautie of the Lord and may visite his holy Temple.
- 1Ver. 4.
I is wonderful what a diversity a man shall find in mens desires: and yet notwithstanding there is one thing wherein all agree and jump together, and that is to be occupied here beneath in the world. Every man may well have his mark and mean by himself: but this vanity reigneth over all, not to seek their good, and felicity any where else but in this corruptible life. The which showeth that men are wonderful brutish: For we are created too an end altogether contrary and that is that having our conversation in this world we should aspire to that heavenly kingdom of GOD. And this is the cause, why this present life is called a pilgrimage or away. Wherefore whosoever will not deprive him self wittingly and willingly of the everlasting inheritance of the kingdom of God, he must begin at this point too cut of all foolish desires and light thoughts, whereby he may be occupied and withholden in this world: