A17694:75
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.
but he protesteth for his own part, that he desired nothing more then that he might be found in the assembly of the people of GOD, too the end that declaring his faith he might always be more edified therein, through the doctrine of salvation which is there preached, and through the sacraments: neither only in this place maketh he this protestation, ⟨p. 36⟩but in many other places, as in the Psalm before going, when he saith,1 O Lord I have loved the habitation of thine house & the place where thy glory hath his dwelling. Also in the 42. ps. As the Hart br•••• he refreshed with the rivers of Water, so pa•teth my soul after thee O Lord: My soul burneth with thirst in seeking after God: 2When shall it be that I shall come and appear before the face of the li•yng God? It had been enough to have spoken this: but his vehement affection carrieth him higher: for he addeth immediately that tears were his […] d••yng the time that he was deprived from coming too the Temple. Yea he saith yet further that his heart was poured out like water, when he remembered the time wherein he went to the Temple praising GOD with the multitude of the faithful. Afterwards having mourned his fill and poured forth his complaints and griefs, he findeth no better consolation, then in the hope that he had conceived that God would restore that benefit again which he had lost. My soul (saith he) why art thou vexed and unquiet within me? 3yet shall I find again the presence of the Lord As also in the 43. Psalm he repeateth again the same matter. And especially in the 84. Psalm, he declareth how he was affected towards it. For after that he hath cried out, O God of hosts how amiable are thy tabernacles! he saith that his heart and his body d•e leap for the fervent desire that he hath to enter into the counts of the Lord. And he setteth down the reason, that they which dwell in the house of God are blessed because they praise him that is to say, they acknowledge his graces with one accord, & they rejoice in him, making confession of their faith. Seeing then that david who was so much advanced in all holiness, yea & was as an angel of heaven dwelling in the world acknowledged that he had so great need to be aided and stirred up by the means that god had given to his people.