Sermon of Master John Calvin, on the history of Melchizedek Wherein is also handled,…Sermon of Maister Iohn Caluin, on the historie of Melchisedech Wherein is also handled,…

3 Then Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his Ass, and took two of his servants with him and Isaac his son, and clove wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place which God told him. 4 Then the third day Abraham lift up his eyes, and saw the place a far off. 5 And said unto his servants, Abide you here with the Ass: For I and the child will go yonder and worship, and come again unto you. 6 Then Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son, and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife, and they went both together. 7 Then spake Isaac unto Abraham his father, and said, My father. And he answered, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the Lamb for the burnt offering? 8 Then Abraham answered, My son, God will provide him a Lamb, for a burnt offering: So they went both together.

3 Then Abraham rose vp earlie in the morning, and sadled his Asse, and tooke two of his seruants with him and Isaak his sonne, and cloue wood for the burnt offring, and rose vp and went to the place which God told him. 4 Then the third day Abraham lift vp his eies, and saw the place a farre off. 5 And said vnto his seruants, Abide you here with the Asse: For I and the childe will goe yonder and worship, and come againe vnto you. 6 Then Abraham tooke the woode of the burnt offring, and laid it vpon Isaak his sonnee, and hee tooke the fier in his hande, and the knife, and they went both together. 7 Then spake Isaak vnto Abraham his father, and saide, My father. And hee answered, Here am I, my sonne. And he said, Behold the fire and the woode, but where is the Lambe for the burnt offring? 8 Then Abraham answered, My sonne, God will prouide him a Lambe, for aburnt offring: So they went both together.

WE have heard that this was the chiefest and hardest conflict that ever Abraham sustained in all the days of his life, ⟨p. 251⟩the going with his son Isaac into a mountain and there to offer him for a burnt offering: because in the first place he was to kill him with his own hands. Now it hath been showed us here before, that God would declare unto us in our father Abraham, that we must so overcome all our natural affections, as that his honour be preferred above all the rest. For although a husband loveth his wife never so dearly, a father his children never so tenderly, yet all this must be trod under foot when the matter for the serving of God cometh in question: For that is the most precious of all other precious things. We have also declared, that Abraham was not tempted only in that God commanded him to kill his son, but in that it seemed that all the promises which God before had made unto him were all as a man would say, quite and clean frustrate and void: For they all depended upon that which we have already heard, That the blessed seed should be raised in Isaac. And therefore it seemed that God meant to frustrate his promise made to Abraham. Now although it might seem in any natural mans reason, that God herein was contrary to himself, & that that commandment of his was to annihilate that which before he had heard from Gods own mouth, yet he constantly obeyed