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,…

and being hunger bitten and starved, have no lust at all too eat. These are they which counterfeit them selves to be great Philosophers, contenting them selves too have read ⟨p. 37⟩over a leaf or two, as a man would say, and then they think they know what soever is necessary for them. These men think they have no need of any preaching. And as concerning the Supper they make no account whether ever they come too it or no. And as concerning the outward order of the Church they leave that unto little children, as though it were too base for them. I pray you may we not think such people too be more then blind? Notwithstanding they can accuse us because that we exhort them too whom our Lord Jesus Christ hath declared his trueth, to use the means that God hath ordained for the increasing preservation and continuance of our faith. And wherefore is this, unless it be because they starckle, & can not abide to be awakened by us, to the end too make them feel their evil? I put the case that they did not commit Idolatry with the Papists: yet can they not deny but that this is a miserable and cursed bondage, that they cannot be suffered too call upon the name of God and too confess Jesus Christ. The holy Ghost when thee would pierce the hearts of the faithful who were captive in Babylon, putteth this sentence into their mouth,¹ How shall we sing the praises of the Lord in a strange land? I confess that the kingdom of God is at this day throughout all the world, and that there is now no difference between Judea and other Countries: But I say notwithstanding that the Country where the service of God is abolished, and true religion cast of, it well deserveth to be accounted for a strange and profane Country. It must needs be then, that they which have no remorse, not too dare to make protestation of their faith: nor to celebrate or set forth the name of ⟨image 42⟩God, that they be altogether blockish: Now let the children of God take heed by this admonition not to become blockish with them. Concerning those which babble, scorning and deriding us in this, asking whether no man can go to heaven, but by Geneva:

and being hunger bitten and starued, haue no lust at all too eate. These are they whiche counterfayte them selues to be great Philosophers, contenting them selues too haue read